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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Sat Jul 16, 2016, 02:42 AM Jul 2016

Warren police officer who cut off woman's weave under fire again for cutting detainee's hand

WARREN, Mich. (WXYZ) - The video went viral: A Warren police officer strapping a young mother from Detroit into a restraint chair and slicing off her hair weave.

Now that same officer is once again caught cutting on camera – this time accused of slicing open a prisoner’s hand.

Lawyers who say they’ve followed this officer’s alleged “use of force” problems for years say it was only a matter of time before this happened again.

7 Investigator Heather Catallo obtained exclusive video from inside the Warren Police Jail.

In the video, you can see Warren Police Officer Bernadette Najor, who now uses her married name, Bernadette Moore.

In the video, Officer Moore can be seen ordering an intoxicated 19-year-old from Warren to remove a bracelet that’s made of string.

Shannon Morris says she tried telling the officer that the bracelet doesn’t come off. But she ends up on the ground, with a large gash in her hand.

“The next thing I remember is being on the floor asking what happened over and over again. One of the male officers just replied with ‘she stabbed you,’”said Morris.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/macomb-county/warren-police-officer-who-cut-off-womans-weave-under-fire-again-for-cutting-detainees-hand


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The former incident



Police officer fired after being caught on camera slicing off young mother's weave... then claiming she did it because the hairpiece was a SUICIDE risk
Charda Gregory was arrested late last year and accused of trashing a seedy motel room on 8 Mile Road
She claims she was drugged and taken there against her will, the video shows her unable to stand
Warren Police Officer Bernadette Najor is shown in the video slicing off and ripping out her weave using scissors
Ms Najors was fired as a result of the incident


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549883/Suburban-Detroit-cop-fired-caught-camera-slicing-young-mothers-weave.html#ixzz4EYF41UbV
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Warren police officer who cut off woman's weave under fire again for cutting detainee's hand (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Jul 2016 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Jul 2016 #1
Yeap, the unusual impunity uponit7771 Jul 2016 #2
She's a sadist. grossproffit Jul 2016 #3
Najor'd been fired and reinstated against department's wishes. Hortensis Jul 2016 #4

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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Najor'd been fired and reinstated against department's wishes.
Sat Jul 16, 2016, 07:30 AM
Jul 2016
Police officer in Warren, Michigan was reinstated against her department’s wishes just over a year after she was caught forcibly cutting a woman’s hair weave off, the Macomb Record reported.


Apparently her superiors properly disapproved of the hair cutting (Deputy Commissioner “I read the police report and was stunned at the very bottom line … that stated that this person’s hair was cut off,”) and felt unnecessary force, etc., were involved. But it wasn't completely documented at the tiemm, an arbitrator said the video had been improperly viewed without audio, and reports of fellow officers supported this one's claim that the victim was combative. Etc., etc.

It's unfortunate that they couldn't get this person out of uniform before, but Najar's no doubt toast this time. In Warren at least.

Btw, the department paid Gregory $75,000 and dropped the charges in settlement.
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