BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — A science professor at a university in Michigan who claimed sinister forces were targeting him and breaking into his home has been fired after using racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs months ago on Twitter.
The Detroit News reported that Thomas Brennan announced in a Twitter posting Saturday he’d been fired. Ferris State University later confirmed his dismissal last week but declined further comment.
The university’s student-run newspaper, The Torch, first reported about the tweets in November. Brennan was put on administrative leave at the time.
In a statement linked in his Saturday posting, Brennan expressed remorse for the tweets. But he said they were a consequence of self-destructive behavior that stemmed from a “secret program” targeting him.
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