US police are investigating the suspicious death of a black university advisor who died after being arrested for allegedly acting irrationally.


Police in Maryland shackled Patrick Raphael Toney on Friday and sent him to hospital with a hood over his head. They said Toney was acting strangely near his parked car at an intersection when he was arrested.

On the way to hospital, the academic stopped breathing but medics managed to revive him. On Wednesday, the hospital notified police that Toney had died.

He had been arrested on April 12 on child abuse charges and released on bail just hours before he was arrested on Friday.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Randy Short, who is with the Baltimore Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), to further talk over the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

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