Tired of looking in the mirror and seeing the referee, Alan Maloney, looking back. Tired of being treated differently and made into something he was not. Drew loved his hair but was tired of it causing so much trouble. The night before, he had grabbed a pair of scissors from the kitchen and hacked at what remained of his dreads, then asked his little sister to finish the job.
After a video of Drew’s shearing attracted a massive social media audience last December, he had reshaped Drew’s hair into shorter dreadlocks that radiated from his head.īut now Drew had a new problem. Perez has tended Drew’s hair since middle school. Yo, that’s that kid who got his locs chopped by the white ref.Īndrew, who goes by Drew, sat down in Chris Perez’s chair. Watching and whispering about things beyond his control. Since that awful day in December when a referee had forced the 16-year-old Buena Regional High School wrestler to either cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match, he felt as if the world was constantly watching him, especially in his small New Jersey town. When Andrew Johnson walked into The Line Up barbershop last April, all eyes focused on him.
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