cited: New York Times

Sunday morning in Brooklyn took a bloodier turn than normal this past week, as reggae singer Major Mackerel was stabbed with a sword by a neighbor.

Michael Nagle for The New York Times

Garfield Dixon, also known as Major Mackerel, after a confrontation with a neighbor over the neighbor’s wife, the police said.

When the fight was over, the police had arrested Oscar Joseph, 37, on charges including assault with intent to cause serious injury — in this case, to his neighbor the singer, whose real name is Garfield Dixon, 41.

The police said that about 8 a.m., they were called to a two-story brick house on East 91st Street near East New York Avenue, where Mr. Dixon and Mr. Joseph live on different floors. They found Mr. Dixon “with lacerations to the head, arm and hand.” They arrested Mr. Joseph and recovered a two-foot-long sword.

Mr. Dixon, who achieved notice as a dancehall reggae artist in the late 1980s and early ’90s, was taken to Kings County Hospital Center.

Mr. Dixon’s companion, Novia Watson, 51, said the fight started after Mr. Dixon returned from buying cigarettes.

When she went to open the door for Mr. Dixon, she saw Mr. Joseph waiting in the foyer. Mr. Joseph raised the sword, she said, and the two men started arguing and fighting over the weapon.

“I was trying to take it from him myself,” Ms. Watson said.

The fight spilled out onto the sidewalk, and Mr. Joseph accused Mr. Dixon of harassing his wife. When Ms. Watson returned from calling the police, Mr. Dixon was pacing on the sidewalk, blood seeping from a deep slash across the palm of his left hand.

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Ms. Watson said the police arrived within minutes and arrested Mr. Joseph, who continued to shout at Mr. Dixon, saying he made rude, suggestive comments to his wife. Ms. Watson said doctors stitched up Mr. Dixon’s hand and told him they might have to operate.

Later on that eventful Sunday, Mr. Dixon made his way homr from the hostpital. He still wore his hospital gown, accessorized with a cast on his left hand and  white gauze covering his dreadlocks (a bandage, not a trandy fashion decision). He claimed not to have harassed Mr. Joseph’s wife.

“I was singing my song, then I see him with a sword,” he said.

My Take: From Bob Marley to Major Mackerel- why do reggae singers find themselves with such violent fates? This would be expected of hip hop or death metal artists, but these singers devoted their lives to songs about love and peace.

Where is the love for them?

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