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Disturbing new video showing a Michigan police officer hacking off the hair weave of a young woman arrested in November is stirring controversy on social media.
In the video, Charda Gregory, 23, of Detroit is tied in a restraining chair by four officers in Warren, Mich., before a female officer rips and cuts at her long braids. Gregory appears to protest and react physically, but the officer doesn’t stop until the entire weave is removed from her head.
Gregory was arrested for allegedly damaging a motel room and police car in suburban Detroit, but charges against her were dropped, according to NBC affiliate WDIV.
Police Officer Bernadette Najor, who administered the violent haircut, said she did so because weaves pose a suicide risk, WDIV reported. Najor was suspended and later fired.
At the time, Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green said Najor clearly violated policy.
“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,”he said. "We are always in the process of reviewing things that happen and trying to make ourselves better and more responsible to the people we work for."
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Finally a Police Commissioner has came out and called a stop to this BS that has been running rampantly across the USA with rogue cops. Support your local police as they deal with people many wouldn't want to but they must be better than the criminal they are arresting.
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Finally a Police Commissioner has came out and called a stop to this BS that has been running rampantly across the USA with rogue cops. Support your local police as they deal with people many wouldn't want to but they must be better than the criminal they are arresting.
At least the bitch got fired.
So, what's wrong with this?
It's not unreasonable to expect someone to remove their fake hair, or have it removed, when you go to jail.
Holy **** some people will defend literally anything police do.
How is removing a prisoner's weave "brutality"? Obviously, the prisoner wasn't injured. She was restrained in am approved restraint. She wasn't assaulted. Obviously, some people will bitch about anything the cops do.
Here's a little bit of reality for you: It's prison. If you don't like the way you get treated in prison, don't break the law and get sent to prison.
I'm kind of torn on this one.
On one hand, yeah that is pretty "invasive" and rough treatment, especially given that she is merely accused and not yet convicted of anything.
OTOH, yes enough weave could be used to make a garrote with which to attack other inmates or guards, or a noose to hang oneself with. I can see where it might have been classified as something risky to allow the inmate to retain possession of... and in most cases, EVERYTHING is taken from an inmate prior to incarceration.
I don't remember weave being an issue in my LE days, but that was long enough ago that weave wasn't so commonplace.
Here's a little bit of reality for you: Charges were dropped and she was not sent to jail or prison.
I'm guessing it wasn't in the employee handbook or the regs b/c that would have been her ''out''. I'm also curious to know why the charges were dropped against the girl? Wonder if it was a case of mistaken identity, not enough proof, etc.
The charges were dropped to dodge a lawsuit. There's the reality...
Is that kind of like when the waitress spill a pot full of scalding hot coffee in your lap the restaurant gives you your meal free.
Yeah I don't know. Weave is very common now, not so much two decades ago. If I run across any female ofc's I know I think I'll ask if they know what the policy is on weave for newly arrested inmates... I can see it being problematic in some cases, at least in theory.
Just imagine the **** storm from a prisoner killing someone, or herself, with her weave. That's a lawsuit that you can't just walk away from, as they did in this scenario.
Still not sure how a weave is structurally different from strips of sheet that anyone can tear off with their teeth.
Probably just hack dominance BS.
Why allow a prisoner to possess more weapons than necessary? Or, would that make too much sense?
Or dignity. Or their fairly expensive property.
Somebody got Lippy and somebody lashed out and abused their authority.
Women.
Ummm, sorry, that seems utterly excessive and beyond the pale to me. When you come down to it, even the clothes on their back "could be used" to strangle someone or commit suicide. Inmates are not forced to run around naked.
Weaves cost literally hundreds of dollars, are glued to the scalp and stitched to one's own hair. I guaran-damn-tee that having that thing ripped off her scalp in a few seconds hurt like holy hell. Glad the officer was fired, but what about the rest of her colleagues who stood around watching this vicious assault? Bah.
1) You know that, how?
2) Even so, that'll teach home girl to keep her ********er closed and do as she's told; afterall, she's in prison!
How is removing a prisoner's weave "brutality"? Obviously, the prisoner wasn't injured. She was restrained in am approved restraint. She wasn't assaulted. Obviously, some people will bitch about anything the cops do.
Here's a little bit of reality for you: It's prison. If you don't like the way you get treated in prison, don't break the law and get sent to prison.
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