This is a video and a article on a Philly cop who currently has a law suet for being discriminated against for putting his hair in corn rows. His supervisor who is a black man took him off street duty and penalized him for the hair do saying it was unprofessional, however several black officers are claimed to have corn rows in the philadelphia police dept. Another claim was they assumed his hat wouldnt fit correctly... This is an obvious case of discrimination in the philadelphia police dept. I agree cops should have a professional clean appearance but this policy should be held for all genders and races then.
video> http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/26548009/cornrow-cop.htm#q=corn+row
article> http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/59967627.html
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Wow! Definite discrimination...Why would it be ok for other officers around to have this hairstyle?? race?? I saw a glimpse of this on the news but didn't really hear the whole story. It also just reads that the hairstyle MAY prevent his hat from fitting correctly? I don't think they should just assume that, sounds like an excuse, i will have to keep up with this one.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard about this but I wonder if it was something specific about the type of cornrows that made them larger than those of the black officers? It's possible that his hair just didn't get tight enough to make sure it didn't specifically change the way his hat was worn with the cornrows. We also don't know what led up to this - did he have a problem with his supervisor and challenged him in this way?
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing in this day and age people are still dealing with the narrow minded. If other cops on the force have corn rows I don't see how this could even go anywhere. I guess if they have a handbook stating specifically in their "no corn rows,etc." they could make this an issue.
ReplyDeleteClearly there is something wrong here. You can't expect one officer to change his look on the assumption of his hat fitting. If they don't want corn rows on the officers then all officers...white/black, male/female....must be subject to that rule.
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