Video: Mich. cop hacks off prisoner's hair

A Warren, Mich., police officer has been fired after slicing off the weave and hair of a 22-year-old hairdresser taken into custody for an outburst at a motel room.

The incident was first reported by WXYZ television Jan. 30 and the video has now gone viral after being picked up by other media.

In the video, Warren Police Officer Bernadette Najor can be seen yanking back Charda Gregory's head and hacking at the weave sewn into her hair.  In some jails, prisoners are required to remove clip-in hair extensions because they can be used in potential suicides. Najor later said that's why she went to remove the hair.  However, it is not normally the procedure with a sewn-in weave.

The night began when Gregory, a hair dresser and mother, attended a Detroit party Nov. 13, 2013 and ended up in a motel. Her attorney says she believes she was drugged. Gregory ended up trashing the Suez Motel and was pepper sprayed by responding police.

At the station, a group of officers restrains Gregory before putting her in a chair where Officer Najor began the cutting.

Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green said Najor's explanation that she had to remove Gregory's weave because of alleged threats of suicide makes no sense.

"I don't buy that's the proper way to treat a human being," Green told the TV station. "I don't think it's decent, I don't think there was any reason to do it, and when I look at it – that bothers me."

Najor was first placed on leave, and then recently fired.