Overview
- Body-worn camera and home-security footage show Martin entering a neighbor’s house, a brief struggle, restraint by officers, and his becoming unresponsive before he was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
- 911 recordings include a neighbor reporting a break-in and Martin’s mother reporting a mental-health emergency, noting he had taken sleeping pills and had not slept for three days.
- Oakland police previously withheld the recordings for months, citing concerns about active investigations and privacy.
- The cause of death has not been determined, and the family is awaiting autopsy and toxicology results while Martin’s brain is being tested for CTE at Boston University.
- Reviews are ongoing by OPD Internal Affairs and Homicide, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and Oakland’s Community Police Review Agency.