Peter Tosh's Son Beaten Into Coma In New Jersey Jail

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http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/06/23/533947525/peter-toshs-son-beaten-into-coma-in-new-jersey-jail

June 23, 2017

The family of legendary reggae artist Peter Tosh is filing a civil rights lawsuit and seeking a U.S. Department of Justice investigation after Tosh's son, 37-year-old Jawara McIntosh — himself a musician and marijuana legalization activist — was left in a coma after being beaten while in the custody of the Bergen County Jail in New Jersey four months ago.

According to McIntosh's family, the beating occurred on Feb. 21; the resulting brain injuries were so severe that he has been comatose ever since. He was first hospitalized at New Jersey's Hackensack Medical Center and has since been moved to a hospital in Massachusetts, where he resides.

McIntosh's family says that they learned of the beating when his mother, Melody Cunningham, received a call from the Hackensack hospital saying McIntosh needed a "life-saving medical procedure" after being attacked at the jail. Niambe McIntosh, Jawara's sister, tells NPR today that their mother then received a call from the jail's warden, saying that the incident involved another inmate.

Niambe McIntosh adds, "We have since, upon request, got an incident report that just didn't really give a lot of information, but it just said there was another inmate [involved]. There was very little detail as to what happened."

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[Cha]

1. Poor thing.. I hope for

a miracle.

I remember when I heard about his dad, Peter, when I was in California. It was 9/11/87 according to google.

[malaise]

2. I posted this a few days ago and it sank like a stone

Rec

[EL34x4]

3. Article states he had served 2 months of a 6 month sentence for marijuana offense.

No previous criminal record.

No information on his attacker.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Bergen County Jail

Wouldn't surprise me if Tosh were attacked by white inmates at the jail.

BTW, expect more of this if AG Jeff Sessions starts to imprison marijuana users.

[dembotoz]

5. Should we take comfort at least is wasn't due to a guard?

Some jails are snake pits. Why he was beaten and by whom might be of interest.
Also if the thug who beat him has been changed.

[safeinOhio]

6. If no inmate has been charged

with murder, it was a guard.

[Gore1FL]

9. Murder is going to be tough to prove in a court given the absence of death. nt

[Snake Plissken]

7. To get our President to comment on this, he has to be White and it needs to occur in North Korea

Otherwise, he couldn't care less, as is the case with most of the media

[mountain grammy]

8. This was posted before.. glad to see it getting more attention.

Maybe if it happened in North Korea?

[malaise]

10. Precisely