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Female prison officer disciplined over barbershop fight caught on video

By EARYEL BOWLEG

Tribune Staff Reporter

ebowleg@tribunemedia.net

A FEMALE prison officer has been fined $1,000 and will be ineligible for promotion for three years after being involved in a fight captured in a viral video.

Prison Commissioner Doan Cleare said the punishment will take effect within seven days unless the officer appeals the decision of the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services disciplinary tribunal.

He also said the officer is required to undergo counselling for a period.

The footage, which spread rapidly on social media in mid-January, shows the officer gripping another woman by the hair inside what appears to be a barbershop and repeatedly punching her.

It remains unclear what led to the confrontation, though the officer can be heard referencing her son, shouting, “That’s my son.”

A man briefly attempted to intervene, but the officer continued the altercation.

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