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White referee fired for forcing black wrestler, 16, to cut dreadlocks

By Naomi Lim
Published December 29, 2018 2:07am ET
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White referee fired for forcing black wrestler, 16, to cut dreadlocks
FILE - In this file image taken from a Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, video provided by SNJTODAY.COM, Buena Regional High School wrestler Andrew Johnson gets his hair cut courtside minutes before his match in Buena, N.J., after a referee told Johnson he would forfeit his bout if he did not have his dreadlocks cut off. | (Michael Frankel/SNJTODAY.COM via AP, File)

The white New Jersey referee who made a black varsity wrestler cut his dreadlocks to compete will no longer work in the school district, according to a report.

Alan Maloney was effectively banned this week by Buena Regional School District Superintendent David Cappuccio after a video of 16-year-old wrestler Andrew Johnson getting his locks clipped went viral.

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