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The following appeared in the Washington Post today:
"A D.C. police officer won a $37,000 jury verdict yesterday against a
former commander who ordered him to get rid of his dreadlocks.
Jeffrey V. Robinson, a 6th District patrol officer, has been battling the department for more than two years over his hairstyle. To Robinson, the locks are an expression of his religious beliefs and African American heritage. To his supervisors, they were a sign of insubordination.
Robinson was about to be fired in 1997 when he obtained a court order
that kept him on the job. Yesterday, he won additional vindication when a jury in U.S. District Court decided he had been treated unfairly. The jury found that then-police inspector John C. Daniels attempted to kick Robinson off the force after he filed an internal complaint and went public with the dispute."
The full story is available on the Post's website for the next
two weeks, at:
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/05/208l-050599-idx.html