who_better_than_me
Time to go!!
Vontae Davis, Marion Barber,
Former All Pro Bucs Running Back Doug Martin died at the Hands of the Police while in custody, he was 36.
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Prob was disorientated and thought he was entering his house
Mental illness is no joke
KnowledgeDropper
All Star
Aside from the question of exactly what happened with the police, the other question is how many people in the NFL knew about he mental illness struggles (my bet is many) and what did those NFL people do to help (my bet is little to nothing).
I’ve seen Reddit posts talking about his mental issues from years ago so it was definitely a known thing. Damn shame he was never able to get right.
damn so dude had a mental health episode and things escalated...his brain got dented 
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
This country gotta do something about police officers responding to mental health calls
They really need a specific department or start hiring and training people on how to respond to situations like this
They really need a specific department or start hiring and training people on how to respond to situations like this
Creflo ½ Dollar
Superstar
Not in the country, do you see the direction that we going to, the govt leaning towards shooting them instead of helping them at this point. We cooked as a nation so help for mental health people is way lower on them totem pole than others..atleast for the former NFL players the NFL need to provide more help. They use and abuse them then leave them to fend for theirselves when their brains are mush.
I didn’t even know he passed away and like this? A heat stroke in his own apartment?
Voice of Reason
Veteran
The cacs and Mexicans on the police force ain’t shyt out there
KnowledgeDropper
All Star
Two months before former NFL running back Doug Martin died in Oakland police custody in a mental health-related episode, he was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold after he experienced substance-induced psychosis and struggled with sheriff’s deputies at a Castro Valley drug rehabilitation center, according to a report obtained by the Chronicle.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office report on the Aug. 13 incident sheds light on the 36-year-old’s struggles with mental illness and substance use. But questions remain about Martin’s death Saturday after another struggle with authorities, who said he had broken into a neighbor’s home in the Oakland hills.
Martin’s family said in a statement that it had been seeking help for him Saturday, when “feeling overwhelmed and disoriented, Doug fled his home during the night and entered a neighbor’s residence two doors down.” The cause and manner of his death remained under investigation Thursday.
Neurologists are expected to examine Martin’s brain to determine whether he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, degenerative brain disease associated with repeated head trauma, the Mercury News reported. Found in hundreds of former football players, CTE can include symptoms like mood disorders, impulsive behavior and memory problems.
A former All-Pro known for a small stature that belied his strength, Martin was cut from the Oakland Raiders, his hometown team, in 2019. He led a quiet retirement, most recently staying at his grandfather’s home in Oakland.
But as recently as this summer, Martin was in crisis.
In August, Martin checked into Tranquility Rehab Center, a state-licensed, privately run facility set in a Mediterranean-style house in the scenic Castro Valley hills. When he arrived, he tested positive for cocaine and methamphetamine, the sheriff’s office report said, adding that he also had fentanyl and a hunting knife among his belongings.
In the first 48 hours or so, Martin twice left the rehab center without permission, according to the report. On Aug. 12, he checked in again, testing positive for cocaine.
Around 9 a.m. on Aug. 13, as a clinical supervisor pulled up to the center, she said she found Martin in the front driveway, dancing with blood on his hands and face. She summoned deputies, reporting that Martin had gone into a psychotic episode.
The supervisor suspected Martin had jumped out the window of his second-floor bedroom and punched the side of the rehab center. Entering the building, she found Martin’s bedroom door was “barricaded,” so she kicked it open, she told deputies. Martin’s window was open, with the screen pushed out.
When two deputies showed up, they asked Martin to sit on a fountain wall. While he complied, he seemed “extremely paranoid,” according to the report. Concerned he was in trouble, he asked “if everything was going to be OK.”
The deputies asked him if he was armed.
“Kinda,” he replied.
When deputies asked him to explain, his paranoia and agitation ramped up, according to the report. As deputies explained that they had to pat him down before paramedics could treat him, Martin stood up. The deputies grabbed his wrists and tried to handcuff him, but Martin started to pull away, and the deputies struggled to hold onto his arms. Martin then slapped the hand of one of the deputies, who punched Martin twice — in the nose and in the mouth, according to the report.
Martin screamed “No!” and grabbed the deputy’s wrist. Paramedics on hand tried to pull Martin away from the deputy, who pushed Martin toward the paramedics, causing Martin to fall on his buttocks. Martin then kicked the deputy in the legs repeatedly, according to the report.
Martin convulsed and squirmed away, but the deputy pinned him down. Two other deputies pulled up and helped handcuff Martin.
The deputies found three small bags of cocaine in his pocket and a 12-inch chef’s knife in his backpack, according to the report. They also picked up a $50 bill, coated in white powder, in the fountain.
Paramedics strapped Martin, kicking and thrashing, to a gurney, according to the report, injecting him in the shoulder with a sedative.
“Martin was so inebriated that he was unable to communicate whether he was in any pain or suffered any injuries,” the report said.
Citing the apparent jump from the second-story window, the deputies deemed Martin a danger to himself, placed him on a 72-hour psychiatric hold and took him to Castro Valley’s Eden Medical Center. The step under state law allows for the temporary detention and psychiatric evaluation — and possible treatment — of people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others.
The case was expected to be sent to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for prosecutors to consider charges of possessing controlled substances and resisting arrest, but it was unclear if the office received or reviewed the case. The office did not comment.
Tranquility Rehab Center did not respond to a request for comment on the incident.
Martin’s family did not comment on the August incident and declined to be interviewed about his death.
“Ultimately, mental illness proved to be the one opponent from which Doug could not run,” the family said in a statement.
Martin had fallen far from the heights of his celebrated football career. Born in Oakland, he didn’t play the sport until he arrived at St. Mary’s High School in Stockton, where he was slow to start. His first play on the freshman football team resulted in a touchdown — for Jesuit High. Martin returned a kickoff, fumbled and had the loose ball returned for a score.
“Needless to say,” St. Mary’s coach Tony Franks told the Chronicle in an interview this week, “Doug got better.”
Indeed, before he was dubbed “Muscle Hamster” in college, a nickname he disliked, Martin was exerting his explosive strength and power at St. Mary’s. Martin had a fire-hydrant frame — he was listed at 5 feet 9 and 210 pounds during his NFL career — and rushed for 3,184 yards, averaged 8.0 yards a carry and scored 32 touchdowns in his final two high school seasons.
“Normal high school kids had to make a business decision about whether they wanted to come up and get a mouthful of shoulder pads or not,” Franks said.
In 2007, Martin went on to Boise State, which was the only Division I school to offer him a scholarship. Martin agreed to move to nickel back as a sophomore, when he was buried on the running back depth chart. However, he eventually starred for the Broncos during their golden era under head coach Chris Peterson, helping the Mountain West Conference program punch above its weight class. In his final three seasons, Martin rushed for 3,324 yards and scored 47 total touchdowns, and the Broncos went 38-2 and finished in the top 10 in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll each season.
After his slow builds, Martin’s seven-season NFL career was like a supernova.
A first-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2012, he immediately rewarded Tampa Bay’s investment by setting the franchise’s single-season rushing record (1,454), the 11th-most in NFL history for a rookie.
“I had no doubt that Doug could play,” recalled former Buccaneers running back coach Earnest Byner, who met Martin before the draft.
Byner said Martin was humble, yet eager to build on his skills. His personality stood out off the field, too. “He had an infectious smile and laugh,” Byner said.
Martin’s signature moment came in Oakland, when he became the second player in league history to rush for at least 250 yards and four touchdowns in a 42-32 win over the Raiders.
Yet Martin’s final six years were marked by injuries. He had a brief return to glory in 2015 when he ranked second in the NFL in rushing with 1,402 yards, and he signed a five-year, $35.75 million contract that offseason.
But later in 2016, he incurred a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s drug policy. The violation was for Adderall, according to a report at the time.
Martin didn’t appeal the suspension and entered a treatment facility. He said in a statement that he’d realized he couldn’t overcome his “personal battles alone and there is no shame in asking for help.”
In 2018, Martin was released by the Buccaneers and picked up by the Raiders. But his career ended when he was released after he was injured in training camp in 2019.
Martin spent his retirement away from the spotlight, apparently struggling to overcome his mental health and substance use challenges. As of late, Martin had been staying at his grandfather’s house in Oakland’s Chabot Park neighborhood, home to a mix of retirees and new families in a quiet area nestled against the Oakland Zoo and Knowland Park.
Neighbors said this week that they had not known they shared the same block as the former NFL star.
On Friday, his parents came to Martin’s grandfather’s house to help him, according to his family. But by around 4 a.m. Saturday, his family called police and reported that Martin was in the throes of another mental health crisis. Martin left his grandfather’s home and entered a neighbor’s house.
Police described the incident as a break-in and said officers were notified that the suspect was suffering from a “medical emergency.”
As officers tried to detain him, “a brief struggle” unfolded, police said, and after Martin was taken into custody, he “became unresponsive.” Martin was taken to a hospital, where he died.
A nearby resident, Matthew Johnson, 47, said he heard a woman in his neighbor’s house screaming before the sun rose Saturday. He said he believed the woman was Martin’s mother, who he suspects found out in that moment that Martin had died.
“You could hear the pain in her voice of losing a child,” Johnson recalled.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office report on the Aug. 13 incident sheds light on the 36-year-old’s struggles with mental illness and substance use. But questions remain about Martin’s death Saturday after another struggle with authorities, who said he had broken into a neighbor’s home in the Oakland hills.
Martin’s family said in a statement that it had been seeking help for him Saturday, when “feeling overwhelmed and disoriented, Doug fled his home during the night and entered a neighbor’s residence two doors down.” The cause and manner of his death remained under investigation Thursday.
Neurologists are expected to examine Martin’s brain to determine whether he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, degenerative brain disease associated with repeated head trauma, the Mercury News reported. Found in hundreds of former football players, CTE can include symptoms like mood disorders, impulsive behavior and memory problems.
A former All-Pro known for a small stature that belied his strength, Martin was cut from the Oakland Raiders, his hometown team, in 2019. He led a quiet retirement, most recently staying at his grandfather’s home in Oakland.
But as recently as this summer, Martin was in crisis.
In August, Martin checked into Tranquility Rehab Center, a state-licensed, privately run facility set in a Mediterranean-style house in the scenic Castro Valley hills. When he arrived, he tested positive for cocaine and methamphetamine, the sheriff’s office report said, adding that he also had fentanyl and a hunting knife among his belongings.
In the first 48 hours or so, Martin twice left the rehab center without permission, according to the report. On Aug. 12, he checked in again, testing positive for cocaine.
Around 9 a.m. on Aug. 13, as a clinical supervisor pulled up to the center, she said she found Martin in the front driveway, dancing with blood on his hands and face. She summoned deputies, reporting that Martin had gone into a psychotic episode.
The supervisor suspected Martin had jumped out the window of his second-floor bedroom and punched the side of the rehab center. Entering the building, she found Martin’s bedroom door was “barricaded,” so she kicked it open, she told deputies. Martin’s window was open, with the screen pushed out.
When two deputies showed up, they asked Martin to sit on a fountain wall. While he complied, he seemed “extremely paranoid,” according to the report. Concerned he was in trouble, he asked “if everything was going to be OK.”
The deputies asked him if he was armed.
“Kinda,” he replied.
When deputies asked him to explain, his paranoia and agitation ramped up, according to the report. As deputies explained that they had to pat him down before paramedics could treat him, Martin stood up. The deputies grabbed his wrists and tried to handcuff him, but Martin started to pull away, and the deputies struggled to hold onto his arms. Martin then slapped the hand of one of the deputies, who punched Martin twice — in the nose and in the mouth, according to the report.
Martin screamed “No!” and grabbed the deputy’s wrist. Paramedics on hand tried to pull Martin away from the deputy, who pushed Martin toward the paramedics, causing Martin to fall on his buttocks. Martin then kicked the deputy in the legs repeatedly, according to the report.
Martin convulsed and squirmed away, but the deputy pinned him down. Two other deputies pulled up and helped handcuff Martin.
The deputies found three small bags of cocaine in his pocket and a 12-inch chef’s knife in his backpack, according to the report. They also picked up a $50 bill, coated in white powder, in the fountain.
Paramedics strapped Martin, kicking and thrashing, to a gurney, according to the report, injecting him in the shoulder with a sedative.
“Martin was so inebriated that he was unable to communicate whether he was in any pain or suffered any injuries,” the report said.
Citing the apparent jump from the second-story window, the deputies deemed Martin a danger to himself, placed him on a 72-hour psychiatric hold and took him to Castro Valley’s Eden Medical Center. The step under state law allows for the temporary detention and psychiatric evaluation — and possible treatment — of people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others.
The case was expected to be sent to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for prosecutors to consider charges of possessing controlled substances and resisting arrest, but it was unclear if the office received or reviewed the case. The office did not comment.
Tranquility Rehab Center did not respond to a request for comment on the incident.
Martin’s family did not comment on the August incident and declined to be interviewed about his death.
“Ultimately, mental illness proved to be the one opponent from which Doug could not run,” the family said in a statement.
Martin had fallen far from the heights of his celebrated football career. Born in Oakland, he didn’t play the sport until he arrived at St. Mary’s High School in Stockton, where he was slow to start. His first play on the freshman football team resulted in a touchdown — for Jesuit High. Martin returned a kickoff, fumbled and had the loose ball returned for a score.
“Needless to say,” St. Mary’s coach Tony Franks told the Chronicle in an interview this week, “Doug got better.”
Indeed, before he was dubbed “Muscle Hamster” in college, a nickname he disliked, Martin was exerting his explosive strength and power at St. Mary’s. Martin had a fire-hydrant frame — he was listed at 5 feet 9 and 210 pounds during his NFL career — and rushed for 3,184 yards, averaged 8.0 yards a carry and scored 32 touchdowns in his final two high school seasons.
“Normal high school kids had to make a business decision about whether they wanted to come up and get a mouthful of shoulder pads or not,” Franks said.
In 2007, Martin went on to Boise State, which was the only Division I school to offer him a scholarship. Martin agreed to move to nickel back as a sophomore, when he was buried on the running back depth chart. However, he eventually starred for the Broncos during their golden era under head coach Chris Peterson, helping the Mountain West Conference program punch above its weight class. In his final three seasons, Martin rushed for 3,324 yards and scored 47 total touchdowns, and the Broncos went 38-2 and finished in the top 10 in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll each season.
After his slow builds, Martin’s seven-season NFL career was like a supernova.
A first-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2012, he immediately rewarded Tampa Bay’s investment by setting the franchise’s single-season rushing record (1,454), the 11th-most in NFL history for a rookie.
“I had no doubt that Doug could play,” recalled former Buccaneers running back coach Earnest Byner, who met Martin before the draft.
Byner said Martin was humble, yet eager to build on his skills. His personality stood out off the field, too. “He had an infectious smile and laugh,” Byner said.
Martin’s signature moment came in Oakland, when he became the second player in league history to rush for at least 250 yards and four touchdowns in a 42-32 win over the Raiders.
Yet Martin’s final six years were marked by injuries. He had a brief return to glory in 2015 when he ranked second in the NFL in rushing with 1,402 yards, and he signed a five-year, $35.75 million contract that offseason.
But later in 2016, he incurred a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s drug policy. The violation was for Adderall, according to a report at the time.
Martin didn’t appeal the suspension and entered a treatment facility. He said in a statement that he’d realized he couldn’t overcome his “personal battles alone and there is no shame in asking for help.”
In 2018, Martin was released by the Buccaneers and picked up by the Raiders. But his career ended when he was released after he was injured in training camp in 2019.
Martin spent his retirement away from the spotlight, apparently struggling to overcome his mental health and substance use challenges. As of late, Martin had been staying at his grandfather’s house in Oakland’s Chabot Park neighborhood, home to a mix of retirees and new families in a quiet area nestled against the Oakland Zoo and Knowland Park.
Neighbors said this week that they had not known they shared the same block as the former NFL star.
On Friday, his parents came to Martin’s grandfather’s house to help him, according to his family. But by around 4 a.m. Saturday, his family called police and reported that Martin was in the throes of another mental health crisis. Martin left his grandfather’s home and entered a neighbor’s house.
Police described the incident as a break-in and said officers were notified that the suspect was suffering from a “medical emergency.”
As officers tried to detain him, “a brief struggle” unfolded, police said, and after Martin was taken into custody, he “became unresponsive.” Martin was taken to a hospital, where he died.
A nearby resident, Matthew Johnson, 47, said he heard a woman in his neighbor’s house screaming before the sun rose Saturday. He said he believed the woman was Martin’s mother, who he suspects found out in that moment that Martin had died.
“You could hear the pain in her voice of losing a child,” Johnson recalled.
ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
sad situation all around. RIP bruh. I don't know if i want my son to play football now. That CTE is real
god shamgod
Veteran
I did a report on cte when I was in college ,lots of research and I got an A 
Cte ain’t no joke , your brain be fried it’s literally like having dementia but you be younger not old
Cte ain’t no joke , your brain be fried it’s literally like having dementia but you be younger not old
