{"id":75400,"date":"2026-06-26T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/parents-of-ex-nfl-star-doug-martin-allege-excessive-police-force-led-to-wrongful-death\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:00:51","slug":"parents-of-ex-nfl-star-doug-martin-allege-excessive-police-force-led-to-wrongful-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/parents-of-ex-nfl-star-doug-martin-allege-excessive-police-force-led-to-wrongful-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of ex-NFL star Doug Martin allege excessive police force led to wrongful death"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Two-time All-Pro running back for Bucs died at 36<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Martin was experiencing mental health crisis, family say<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lawsuit filed against Oakland police, ambulance unit<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lawsuit filed by Doug Martin\u2019s parents alleges delayed care after \u2060police used excessive force led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/oct\/20\/doug-martin-death-police-custody-tampa-bay-boise-state\">the former All-Pro running back\u2019s death<\/a> last October.<\/p>\n<p>Leslie \u2060and Doug Martin \u2060filed \u200bthe wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against the city of Oakland, California, \u2060multiple police officers and an ambulance company.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/26\/doug-martin-wrongful-death-police-oakland-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time All-Pro running back for Bucs died at 36 Martin was experiencing mental health crisis, family say Lawsuit filed against Oakland police, ambulance unit A lawsuit filed by Doug Martin\u2019s parents alleges delayed care after \u2060police used excessive force led to the former All-Pro running back\u2019s death last October. Leslie \u2060and Doug Martin \u2060filed \u200bthe &#8230; <a title=\"Parents of ex-NFL star Doug Martin allege excessive police force led to wrongful death\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/parents-of-ex-nfl-star-doug-martin-allege-excessive-police-force-led-to-wrongful-death\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Parents of ex-NFL star Doug Martin allege excessive police force led to wrongful death\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}