Does the Punishment Fit Ray Rice Crime?
Baltimore Ravens Running back Ray Rice thought it was ok to punch his fiance and knock her out on an elevator and then drag her body out like she drank too much!
When did it become ok to knock your fiancee out in an elevator and then drag her body out and drop her on the floor of a parking lot ok with the NFL?
First off CelebNMusic247.com want to make this clear, as a man, you NEVER hit a woman, especially your future wife. This should be a wake up call for her to get out NOW! Domestic violence red flags are everywhere and apparently the NFL condones wife beatings after seeing this video. Way to go support America‘s values.
Here is the video of Ray Rice dragging his then fiance out of the elevator like she is trash:
It seem the Baltimore Ravens don’t care what he does as long as he plays an wins on the field for the team. See we are NOT the only ones who disagree with this type of behavior. Ray Rice is ONLY getting a two game suspension from the NFL after he was charged with assaulting his then-fiancee. It’s a straight up slap in the face of all women, especially victims of domestic abuse, the wives and daughters of NFL players, and the millions of women who make up 44% of the NFL’s fan base.
Does the NFL understand how bad this makes them look?
Women should boycott ALL NFL games until Ray Rice loose pay for the whole season and is suspended from playing for 6 months.
This is disgusting that this type of behavior is tolerated. The NFL Commissioner, Roger Goodell, talks often about protecting the “The Shield“, the brand… the league image. Ray Rice’s then fiancee, Janay Palmer could have used “The Shield” to protect her face from Rice’s alleged knockout punch in a casino elevator. The aftermath was caught on video and has gone viral since then.
The incident which took place in inside an Atlantic City casino captured Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice struggling to drag an unconscious Palmer out of an elevator and onto the casino corridor floor this past February. Rice was later indicted for aggravated assault. However, Roger Goodell and NFL officials are now using the vaunted “Shield” to cover their ears from the universal uproar over the lenient punishment they slapped Rice’s wrist with. It sounds like the saying “eyes wide shut” but in this case it would be “listening with deaf ears.”
The public DEMANDS an explanation and justification for the weak punishment.
While Goodell and other NFL officials have said the two-game suspension was appropriate. We wonder if they would find the suspension “appropriate” if it were one of their daughter being knocked out and left laying unconscious in a casino hallway like trash?
This completely contradicts the team and all it’s players, since Ray Rice represents Baltimore Ravens, who wears pink shoes, socks and gloves for breast cancer awareness once a year.
Obviously NFL politics overshadowed a real punishment. We have also learned via Sports Illustrated’s Peter King that Goodell was swayed by a meeting with Palmer, Rice, and Ravens officials. Palmer pleaded that the incident was a “one-time event” urging Goodell not to ruin Rice’s career because there had been no other physical altercations before or since.
Goodell meeting with Palmer, Rice and Ravens officials together to make his decision, was inappropriate and ill advised. It’s sad that the victim was forced to excuse the abuser and blame herself in a classic battered woman syndrome behavior.
So we ask again, Does the Punishment Fit Ray Rice Crime?
CBSSports has also weighed in on Ray Rice’s punishment, but they’re claiming that it was appropriate.
The commissioner and the league whiffed badly when it handed Ravens running back Ray Rice a two-game suspension for a physical altercation with his now-wife, Janay Palmer. The punishment has been widely criticized as too lenient, a fact brought home in this chart.
On Monday, NFL senior vice president of labor policy Adolpho Birch went on ESPN’s “Mike and Mike” radio show to defend Rice’s punishment.
It did not go well.
Birch said:
“In terms of sending a message about what the league stands for, we’ve done that. We can talk about the degree of discipline, we can talk about whether or not third parties need to be involved. I would suggest to you that a third party has been involved in this matter and that was the court that reviewed it, the prosecutor that reviewed it.”
He adds:
“On balance, we reviewed all the materials, listened to the persons we listened to, took the input of the Players Association. When we looked on balance at all of that, we believe that discipline we issued is appropriate. It is multiple games and hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think that’s fair to say that doesn’t reflect that you condone the behavior. I think we can put that to rest.”
They also posted this chart with the tweet:
Of course, Ray Rice did not attempt to appeal his two-game suspension, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Thoughts?
Do you agree or disagree?
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