Eric Morrison biography: 13 things about dog kicker employed by Google

Eric Phillip Morrison is an American man from California, United States. He is known for being caught on camera kicking a dog.

Morrison is interested in design ethics and social computing. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He is based in Los Angeles, California.
2. Aside from Los Angeles, he has lived in other parts of California including San Francisco and Altadena.
3. He previously lived in New York City, New York, USA, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA and in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
4. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history and anthropology from Yale University in New Haven.
5. From April 2017 to October 2018, he was a senior user research manager at The Walt Disney Company in Los Angeles.
6. From October 2018 to August 2019, he attended the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, United Kingdom where he earned his master’s degree in social science of the internet.
7. From July 2019 to June 2022, he was the user experience research director of TikTok in Los Angeles.
8. In November 2019, his thesis “Team Diversity and Performance in Video Game Development – An analysis of the effects of gender diversity and structural folds on team effectiveness” was chosen as one of the three winners of the University of Oxford’s 2019 OII MSc Thesis Prize.  
9. In June 2022, he joined Google in Los Angeles as a user experience research manager.
10. In October 2023, he turned 34.
11. At around 2:50 p.m. on February 10, 2024, he was caught on camera kicking a Chihuahua named Knox while it was walking on West 70th Street and West End Avenue in New York City with its owner Jen Floyd, then 40. He filed a report against Floyd, accusing her of kicking him in the shin. Surveillance video showed he kicked the dog first before she kicked him.
12. On February 23, 2024, he was charged for kicking a dog on February 10, 2024. He is accused of violating New York’s Agriculture and Markets law.
13. On March 12, 2024, he will be back in court.