Ray Rice, out of football
Ray Rice, star running back for the NFL Baltimore Ravens, had recently been suspended for 2 games for being caught by a security camera dragging his unconscious fiancé out of an elevator where he had admitted to having hit her. This two game suspension was roundly criticized as inadequate especially given the one year suspensions handed out for drug use. Even the commissioner had recently regretted the leniency of this punishment and promised future suspensions for domestic violence would be longer.
Today TMZ.com released the video of the camera from inside the elevator showing the actual knockout punch. Somehow actually seeing what everyone already knew had happened, he threw a punch and knocked her out cold, caused the Ravens to respond by cutting him. The NFL office has also suspended him indefinitely which was done to discourage other teams from picking him up. Maybe this will help turn the corner in an understanding that it is not okay to clobber people. Sadly one widely respected national news source responded to this new video partially with jokes by advising that :
“I think the message is take the stairs,”
“The message is, when you’re in an elevator, there’s a camera"
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