Fired MI Cop Reinstated Despite Cutting Off Black Detainee's Weave

By Julissa Catalan


A year after a white female police officer was fired for cutting off a detained Black woman’s hair weave, the cop now finds herself back at her old jobwith full back pay, benefits and full seniority.

Officer Bernadette Najor has been reinstated to the Warren (Mich.) Police Department after an arbitrator ruled that the female cop did not violate the terms of her employment contract by forcibly cutting off the hair weave of Charda Gregory, a Black woman who was temporarily detained on suspicion of destruction of property.

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