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Three middle schoolers allegedly pinned down black girl and cut off her dreadlocks

Police in Northern Virginia are investigating after a 12-year-old African-American girl said three white classmates pinned her down and cut her dreadlocks. The 6th grade girl says the boys held her down on the playground of the private Christian school in Springfield during recess this week. She says they called her dreadlocks "nappy" and "ugly."
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