"The OPD's response to this news organization's public records request for the footage came at the 45-day deadline enshrined in a state law to boost police accountability. At this time, the City has determined that the incident does not meet the definition of a critical incident,' read an unsigned statement from OPD, which cited AB 748, the law signed in 2019. Therefore, the mandatory disclosure provisions applicable to critical incidents do not apply."
"The Oakland Police Department has refused to release 911 dispatch recordings that would shed more light on the moments leading up to the 36-year-old becoming unconscious, after officers found him inside one of his neighbors' houses in the Oakland hills."
Oakland police described former NFL running back Doug Martin's mid-October death as an in-custody death following a brief struggle with officers. Officers found Martin unconscious inside a neighbor's house in the Oakland hills. The Oakland Police Department refused to release 911 dispatch recordings and on the 45-day statutory deadline determined the incident did not meet AB 748's definition of a critical incident, thereby declining mandatory disclosure of body-camera footage. First Amendment and police accountability advocates rebuked the refusal and urged transparency. AB 748 defines critical incidents as officer-involved shootings or uses of force resulting in death or great bodily injury. Few facts have been publicly released.
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