Shellyne Rodriguez smirks, sports ‘FTP’ tattoo after being charged over machete threat
The manic Manhattan arts professor who held a machete to a Post reporter’s neck and threatened to “chop” him up flashed a bra❀zen smile Thursday after law enforcement sources say she was slapped with harassment and menacing charges.
A smirking Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, held her head high as she was escorted out of the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx in handcuffs just after 11 a.m. — several hours after turning herself in over Tuesday’s caught-on-camera ordeal.
The professor had her slew of tattoos on full display, including “FTP” (for “F–k the police”) inked on her fingers, as well as an image of brass knuckles and the boxing term “southpaw” scrawled across her hand.
Earlier, Rodriguez had worn black sunglasses and w𝓡as flanked by a handfu🀅l of supporters as she walked into the precinct to surrender to cops.
Rodriguez’s arrest follows Tuesday’s shocking chain of events, which unfolded when the veteran Post reporter knocked on her apartment door to ask her about viral footage of her cursing out Hunter College pro-life students.
“Get the f–k away from my door, or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete,” the unhinged professor screamed before barging out wi🀅th 🤡the blade.
After the reporter and a photographer quickly exited the apartment building, dashcam video showed Rodriguez — still armed with the♊ machete — chasing them down the street.“If I see you on this block one more f–king time, you’re gonna …,” Rodriguez said.
☂“Get the f–k off the block! Get the f–k out of here, yo!”
She then kicked the reporter in his shins before retreating b🍌ack into her build🐼ing.
Rodriguez was fired by Hunter College in the wake of the ordeal, while the School of Visual Arts — where she also worked as a professor — was reviewing her employment as of Wednesday.
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The saga came after Rodriguez had made headlines earlier in the week when footaꦜge surfaced online showing her unleashing a profanity-laden attack on anti-abortion studentsᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ at Hunter College on May 2.
“You’re not educating s–t. This is f–king propaga🌞nda,” the art professor told students as they stood behind an informati💝on table they’d set up.
“What are you going to do, l✤ike, anti-trans next?” she continu✅ed before tossing the students’ pamphlets on the floor.
In the wake of her machete threat, it emerged that Rodriguez is suing the NYPD for allegedly abusꦇing her during the and has previously organized a string of anti-cop protests in the Bronx, which lไed to mass arrests.
Rodriguez, who is th🥂e lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, 𝄹claims she suffered nerve damage from being zip-tied when she was nabbed and put in a prisoner van with 14 other protesters.
The professor several “FTP” protests ꦜin the Bronx in the aftermath of Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis cops.
“’FTP’ stands for many things, including ‘Free the People,’ ‘Feed the People,’ and, in the context of certain anti-police protests, ‘F–k the Police,’” her lawsuit against the NYPD says.
