Dive Brief:
- A protest march is set for Tuesday after a 34-year-old Yale University assistant professor died in police custody last month.
- The event is being organized by a former colleague of Samuel See, who died while in a jail cell after being taken into custody over a domestic dispute.
- Police have said that neither trauma nor suicide appear to be the cause of See's death; toxicology results are pending.
Dive Insight:
Nathan Brown, an assistant English professor at the University of California at Davis, is organizing the march. In a statement he said: "“We call upon everyone concerned about the circumstances of Samuel See’s death to join the demonstration. We understand that the sources of such concern are multiple, complex and perhaps ambiguous. We are open to these complexities and ambiguities, and we view this demonstration as an important means to make them manifest."