New Jersey referee suspended after forcing black wrestler to have haircut

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The 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.