New video of the assault surfaces: Ravens terminate Ray Rice's contract, NFL bans him

[pRICE cUBE]

Looks like Ray Rice will get more than the 2 game suspension and the full brunt of the NFL's newly enacted domestic violence policy. Goodell had been widely criticized for being too lenient on the Rice matter.


http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/114891...o-surfaces

The grainy video, released by TMZ Sports, shows Rice and Janay Palmer in an elevator at an Atlantic City casino. Each hits the other before Rice knocks Palmer off her feet and into a railing. An earlier TMZ video had showed Rice dragging Palmer, now his wife, from the elevator at the Revel casino, which closed Sept. 2.

The Ravens said earlier Monday that they never saw the new video. Hours later, they sent out a one-sentence release:

"The Baltimore Ravens terminated the contract of RB Ray Rice this afternoon."

The NFL also took action, saying on Twitter that commissioner "Roger Goodell has announced that based on new video evidence that became available today he has indefinitely suspended Ray Rice."

[artie67]

Please beware that the clip shows a large man hitting a woman in the face. I didn't look at the link but, was aware of the video earlier this morning. Mr. Rice will be in a courtroom soon.

[pRICE cUBE]

artie67 wrote:
Please beware that the clip shows a large man hitting a woman in the face. I didn't look at the link but, was aware of the video earlier this morning. Mr. Rice will be in a courtroom soon.

Yes, the ESPN link is to the story that has the link of the incident.

[SteveG]

Yeah, the world is full of big tough guys.

[cyclemax]

artie67 wrote:
Mr. Rice will be in a courtroom soon.

He already had his day in court. He was charged with felony aggravated assault in the case, but in May he was accepted into a pretrial intervention program that allowed him to avoid jail time and could lead to the charge being purged from his record. The Police had copies of the linked video. And, the woman married him after all this happened.

[pRICE cUBE]

During Game 1 of tonight Monday Night Football, ESPN spent the whole time discussing the altercation and displayed the video. After being hit by the punch, her head slams into the elevator's arm rail. NFL and Ravens claim they were unaware of the video at the time they gave him the 2 game suspension.

[RAMd®d]

I didn't look at the link

Neither did I.

Thanks for the H/U.


NFL and Ravens claim they were unaware of the video at the time they gave him the 2 game suspension.

I haven't followed this story. Is there any reason to think that the NFL and Ravens aren't being truthful about not seeing the video then?

[silvarios]

cyclemax wrote:
[quote=artie67]
Mr. Rice will be in a courtroom soon.

He already had his day in court. He was charged with felony aggravated assault in the case, but in May he was accepted into a pretrial intervention program that allowed him to avoid jail time and could lead to the charge being purged from his record. The Police had copies of the linked video. And, the woman married him after all this happened.
Yep. Not to defend Ray Rice, it was pretty abhorrent to strike a human being with enough force to knock them out cold, but why is it okay she hit him first? I wonder if he had called the police and filed a report if anything would have happened? Maybe he should have. It would have been better for both Mr and Mrs Rice than the awfulness of the elevator incident.

How can the NFL suspend Rice two games and then suspend him more for the same incident? Seems self serving. The NFL should be ashamed and I hope the union appeals and wins the case as it will rub it in just how the NFL is run by a bunch of self serving jerks. The NFL desperately wanted the case to go away, suspended Rice two games (never mind dude in Cleveland is out for an entire year for partaking in recreational marijuana, oh the hypocrisy!!!), and now are look like a bunch of dopes for the initial penalty. Which of course prompts the not so surprising overreaction.

Ravens also look pretty stupid right now, but the cynical side of me thinks if Rice had not been a washed up running back making major bank (hence the benefit of voiding his contract), they would have kept him around to come back after the suspension. Didn't they just post a blurb on the official team site about how Rice was a great guy?

Oh, what a mess.

[pRICE cUBE]

RAMd®d wrote:
I didn't look at the link

Neither did I.

Thanks for the H/U.


NFL and Ravens claim they were unaware of the video at the time they gave him the 2 game suspension.

I haven't followed this story. Is there any reason to think that the NFL and Ravens aren't being truthful about not seeing the video then?

There are a lot of moving parts to the story at the moment. The crux of the situation is due to no video inside the elevator at the time the suspension was handed down, Commissioner Goodell gave him the first time offender punishment. At the same time, 3rd time substance abuser Josh Gordon got busted a 3rd time for smoking pot and was handed 1 season game suspension. There are conflicting and unconfirmed reports that the NFL and Goodell may have known the inside elevator footage existed. The police had it. How did TMZ get a hold of it but not the NFL? Those questions will keep popping up.

[rjmacs]

I hope Goodell loses his job over this and Rice never plays the game again. If the NFL didn't see this video before yesterday it's only because they didn't want to.