Update:
Thursday, 10:15 p.m.: The incident
happened in November, WXYZ reports. Warren Police Commissioner Jere
Green says the officer who cut the hair, Bernadette Najor, had initially been
placed on leave and was eventually fired. Charges against the victim, Chadra
Gregory, who had been arrested for trashing a motel room, were dropped.
Other
officers may be disciplined, Fox 2's Ron Savage reports, but no other firings
are expected.
This
is almost incomprehensible.
WXYZ's
Heather Catallo reports that a Warren police officer put a young mother under
arrest in a restraining chair and hacked off her weave.
WXYZ
posted a video that shows officers restraining Charda Gregory. Then one officer
uses scissors to cut off her artificial hair that was sewn into a braid on her
scalp.
“I
was confused. I didn’t know what
happened and what was going on,” Gregory said, according to WXYZ.
Catallo
reports that Warren police say they do ask prisoners to remove clipped-in long
hair extensions so they can’t be used as a weapon or to commit suicide.
WXYZ's
website says:
But
a weave is different, and Police Commissioner Jere Green says what Officer
Bernadette Najor did was not a proper use of force.
“There’s
a real simple thing: it’s called right
and wrong. And to me this is something
that I won’t tolerate, I don’t think the citizens of Warren will tolerate it,”
said Green.
--
Allan Lengel
