American Thinker – Before killing himself with a drug intended for rapid and painless animal euthanasia, Richard A. Morrisett had endured a nightmare at the University of Texas in Austin. The 57-year-old tenured professor of pharmacology and toxicology was once a rising star in the College of Pharmacy – a man regarded as a first-rate research scientist and teacher during his 21 years at the state’s flagship university. Morrisett’s research offered new insights into alcohol-related brain disorders and alcoholism – an arcane area of research among neuroscientists. Some colleagues called him “brilliant.”
Morrisett’s career, however, was destroyed by a single newspaper article. Published by the Austin American-Statesman, a metropolitan daily, the article dredged up an ugly episode from Morrisett’s past – a domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend at the time. It was the sort of inexcusable incident that, sadly, the police and courts handle all the time. There were no serious injuries; it hadn’t even merited a headline when it occurred on May 28, 2016. Morrisett, in a plea deal, pleaded guilty to a 3rd degree felony. He was sentenced to four years of probation, called community supervision in Texas, and ordered to receive counseling, take a class on avoiding family violence, and perform 100 hours of community service. Morrisett had thought he was moving on with his life. He had accepted responsibility for his actions and, moreover, had put an apparently volatile and dysfunctional relationship behind him.
Then, more than a year and a half after the incident, a Statesman reporter contacted Morrisett about the domestic violence case. On his lawyer’s advice, Morrisett declined to comment. And not long after that, on Thursday, January 25, his nightmare began: He woke up to see a banner headline across the Statesman’s front page: “UT declined to sanction professor who pleaded guilty to violent felony.” The incident had suddenly become timely – tied as it was to the #MeToo movement that, starting one year ago with Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, has since targeted and disgraced a number of prominent or famous men for being sexual predators and abusers.
Until the Statesman’s article, only a handful of people knew about the incident, mainly in the criminal-justice system and at the University of Texas. But the #MeToo movement changed all that; or as the Statesman explained: “The case comes to light at a time of heightened concern at colleges and universities, and more broadly across American society, about sexual assault and interpersonal violence.” more here
MJA Who the fuc k cares?
This is why Libtards need to be shot on sight. It’ the Holiday season. If you have a retaliative come home for the Holidays and start acting like a Libtard, save them, and drive a wooden stake through their heart.
moe tom
Obviously Morrisett cared enough to off himself. Great display of empathy.
This saddens me beyond belief. I’m a graduate of UT’s College of Pharmacy, one of the finest pharmacy schools in the nation. This man was a few years younger than I, so obviously he was not one of my professors, but I like to think I would have stood by him if I knew him. Damn the commies! And damn the #MeToo movement! RIP, professor.
Moe Tom, I care. This is my alma mater, and had this man been a little older, I likely would have known him. And that would have shaken me up even more.
This mob killed him as if they had put a gun to his head. This shit needs to stop!
Alec Baldwin and Keith Ellison like to beat up women; how can we convince them to commit suicide?
Yes, a horrible end to a good man. But, a person who gives his/her soul to God would never commit suicide, no matter what.
heartless journalists caused this. Karma’s coming.
@timbuktwo Yes they still can and do. Depression is mental illness and satan tortures them.
Instead of committing suicide, I would have tracked down the commie rat bastard leader of the UT Revolutionary Student Front and branded the Hammer & Sickle onto his forehead. The reporter would have been next.
Charlie WalksonWater
Well spoken.
The P should be PJ
I have known a few Christians who have committed suicide. We’re not immune.
But, butt, this story is SO April, 2018:
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2018-04-13/ut-policy-change-coincides-with-professors-sudden-death/
Someone needs to pay a visit to the head guy at Statesman and get his DNA all over them then cry rape attempt.
Spending a career wallowing with pigs ensures that sooner or later you’ll find yourself on the wrong side of the mob. People in those settings should have pushed back years ago and not allowed the momentum of this present day insanity to get a firm grip. Too late now.
The man paid his debt to society until some journo decided he should suffer some more now that it was fashionable. I wonder what his university was going to do about the publicity before he committed suicide? Tragic
LadyGun12, I too have known a few Christians who have committed suicide and yes we are not immune. It’s very sad, a young Christian friend of mine who was seriously addicted to drugs back in the mid 70’s and was a tormented soul killed himself by jumping off the Monroe Street bridge in downtown Spokane into the Spokane River. There have been others as well who I still don’t understand why they felt the need to kill themselves. And I had a very brilliant Sociology Professor at EWU who killed himself because he was gay back in the early 80’s, that one I don’t understand either, except he was a tortured soul as well.
These fucking self-righteous murderous jackals need to be eliminated.