Professor arrested at anti-ICE rally celebrates Dick Cheney’s death

A professor at a major university who was recently arrested for aggravated assault at an anti-ICE rally lashed out at former Vice President Dick Cheney upon news of his death Tuesday morning.

Eman Abdelhadi is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago.

“Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having suffered any consequences for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed… I realize how far we are from a world where justice reigns. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death,” she posted on her Bluesky account early Tuesday morning.

A photo of Eman Abdelhadi from October 3, 2025. (Cook County Sheriff’s Office)

The 84-year-old former Republican political stalwart died of pneumonia and heart and vascular disease, according to a statement obtained by Fox News Digital. In addition to serving as vice president during the George W. Bush administration, Cheney served as a Republican congressman, secretary of defense and White House chief of staff.

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Abdelhadi was arrested Oct. 3 outside the ICE processing plant in Broadview, Illinois, where demonstrators have been protesting ICE arrests — sometimes violently — for about two months. She was charged with two counts of aggravated battery of a government employee, a Class 3 felony, and two counts of resisting/obstructing the peace, a Class A misdemeanor, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

The day before her arrest, she joined a far-left podcast to demonize ICE as terrorists.

“These people are terrorizing our communities and moving in,” she said, referring to federal immigration agents. “I mean, in Broadview, ICE set up shop in our backyard. They just brazenly used community resources to terrorize that same community. And so it seemed really important to join with the protesters to say, not in our city, not in our name, not in our backyard.”

Vice President Dick Cheney delivers remarks to 4,000 soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division returning from duty in Iraq during a “Welcome Home Rally” October 16, 2006, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. (TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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“There is no center anymore,” she later said. “Either you resist or you are complicit.”

Since his arrest, University of Chicago officials have not responded to multiple requests for comment regarding his employment status at the elite school. As of Tuesday, his faculty page is still online on the school’s website.

The embattled professor first made headlines in July, when she criticized her employer at the Socialism 2025 conference, which claims it brings together socialists and radical activists to “participate in discussions about social movements, abolition, Marxism, decolonization, working class history, and organizing debates and strategies today.”

Police arrested two people as tear gas filled the air after being used by federal law enforcement officers who were confronting community members and activists for apparently shooting a woman on October 4, 2025 in Broadview, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

“Fuck, the University of Chicago is evil, you know, it’s a colonial landlord. Why should I devote any of my political energy to that space? I kind of had a bit of disdain for people who were spending their time doing that,” she said.

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“It turns out I work for one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago. I work in a place that’s a landlord, a health care provider, a police force, it’s all crap, but they are, and a place where I have access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize…actually, that’s where I need to build my power. That’s a possible structural lever,” she said.

Neither the University of Chicago nor Abdelhadi responded to requests for comment.