The case of Jonathan Magbie will be forever remembered among the cycles of voices that stands against all forms of injustice towards the most defenseless in society. If our generation is ever going to to be remembered, how we treat the most vulnerable among us would be the top most criteria, and based on our conduct so far, there wouldn't be any magnanimous records of us.
Our greed, spite and mercilessness has vitiated and blurred our very moral sight that we refuse to see the toxicity it has unleashed on our humanity.
All my life I have never been bewildered by any case like the case of Jonathan Magbie.
Jonathan Magbie was a 27 quadriplegic who died in jail while serving a ten days sentence for the possession of marijuana.
Magbie was paralyzed from the neck down after being struck by a truck at the age of four.
Young Jonathan meets President Reagan in 1982
Although he had never been convicted of a criminal offense and although he required private nursing care for as much as 20 hours a day, Magbie was given a ten-day sentence in the D.C. jail in September 2004 by D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith E. Retchin.
Lacking a ventilator, he died in city custody four days later.
Judge Judith Retchin “chastised Magbie for honestly saying that he would probably continue using marijuana, because it made him ‘feel better.’”
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