OAKLAND — Authorities here have said little about the mid-October death of former NFL running back Doug Martin, only describing it as an in-custody death after a “brief struggle” with Oakland police officers.

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.

Now, OPD officials on Tuesday argued the encounter did not amount to a “critical incident,” a key threshold that would require the agency to release officer body-camera video. 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 acco

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