Police in California say former NFL running back Doug Martin died after struggling with officers who were taking him into custody.

Martin felt overwhelmed and disoriented, fled his home and entered a neighbor’s home two doors down where police took him into custody, Murphy said. “Ultimately, mental illness proved to be the one opponent from which Doug could not run,” Murphy said.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      John Oliver did a piece on that, years ago.

      As I recall, you’re really close to the conclusions he was pushing

      • college football is horrible on players, some of whom get to play NFL; the rest get no pay, no fame, just knee and brain injuries and no education.
      • NFL football is increased hell on the melon; and many retire out, broken, after only a few years, and often with huge debt, more joint and brain damage
      • colleges and NFL get lots of money, players usually get forgotten. Finkle is Einhorn.
      • yeah, you know black people are massively victimized by this gamble and the damage
      • a black dude stumbling a bit and with cognitive and speech problems the encephalitis provokes? That’s a taserin’… If they’re ‘lucky’.

      It’s a short life, and not happy, but the lottery effect is so strong that more and more kids willingly jump into the meat grinder for that one chance to move their family up economically.