The city of South Fulton has settled a lawsuit alleging it forced a police officer to cut his Rastafari locs in violation of city policy and federal law.
Milton Myrie sued the city in December 2023, alleging he was told he had to cut off his locs in order to serve on the city’s police force. He claimed his superiors failed to tell him that he could apply to keep his locs on religious grounds.
Myrie said he learned of the possibility from the city’s human resources staff years too late, once he’d repeatedly cut his hair and developed a skin condition preventing it from growing back. He said he resigned from the city’s police force in February 2023 as a result…