New Jersey referee suspended after forcing black wrestler to have haircut

New Jersey referee suspended after forcing black wrestler to have haircutThe video, which was uploaded on Twitter on Thursday by a reporter from SNJ Today newspaper, showed Andrew Johnson of Buena Regional High School in Buena, New Jersey, getting his dreadlocks hairstyle cut off by a school official. A referee named Alan Maloney, who is white, apparently had ordered Johnson to cut off his hair, according to local media reports. "Deeply disturbed that Andrew Johnson, a student at Buena Regional H.S., was forced to choose between keeping his dreadlocks and competing in a wrestling tournament," wrote New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a democrat, on Twitter.




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