Fired Warren Cop Who Cut Suspect's Hair Weave Wins Job Back, With Back Pay

Macomb Daily
Jan. 01, 2015

A Warren police officer who was fired for cutting a woman’s hair weave while restrained in a chair inside the Police Department’s lockup has won back her job.

Almost a year to the day that Bernadette Najor was terminated, an arbitrator has ruled the 10-year veteran of the force be reinstated with full back pay, fringe benefits and seniority.

[...]“The grievant (Najor) testified that she had heard the prisoner make remarks about suicide, and even though she didn’t think the prisoner was serious, she decided to take the precautionary action of removing the weave to make sure that the prisoner did not use the weave to hurt herself or others,” arbitrator Nora Lynch wrote in a 26-page ruling.

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