NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, who had not seen the horrific video showing Rice cold-cocking fiancee Janay Palmer in the elevator, only suspended Rice for two games. How is that possible? This guy becomes violent and hit a woman and only gets a two game suspension, but A-Rod takes a performance enhancing drug and is suspended for a whole season. It makes no sense. The word is commissioner Goodell is currently reviewing some new evidence provided by the gossip website.
The video depicts Rice and Palmer, who are now married, getting into an elevator inside the Revel on February 15 and within seconds after the door closing, Palmer approaches Rice, who knocks her the hell out with a left hook to the chin. Palmer fell to the ground and when the doors opened, Rice dragged her unconscious body into the hallway, where there met by a security guard. The video of Rice dragging her out of the elevator soon went public, but today is actually the first time that the video inside the elevator was released.
At the time, Rice's attorney deemed the allegations a "very minor physical altercation" with Palmer. Dude! He hit a woman! Anyone who hits a woman in that manner is no minor physical altercation. Commissioner Goodell took so much heat for his light two-game suspension of Rice that on August 29, he instituted a new domestic abuse policy, where a first time offender would get up to a six-game suspension and second offense could lead to a lifetime ban. Hey, Roger Goodell! How about any this? If any of your football players strikes any women, they are banned for life! How is hitting women acceptable even once? So, basically, he's saying, you can hit her once, but just don't let it happen again or I will have to ban you for life? NO! Roger Goodell, if it was your daughter getting slapped around by one of your ball players, I guarantee that rule will be amended.
In addition to getting off easy with the NFL, Rice, who is a former Rutgers star from New Rochelle, NY, skated off easy with the law as well. On May 20, he was accepted into a pretrial intervention program to avoid the aggravated assault charges. On that day, Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain said, "This decision was arrived after careful consideration of the information contained in Mr. Rice's application in light of the facts gathered during the investigation. After considering all relevant information in light of applicable law, it was determined that this was the appropriate disposition." So, once Rice completes the year-long program, the third degree assault charges go away. In other words, because he's an NFL star the Atlantic County Prosecution folded and gave him the lightest sentence possible for smacking a girl around. Here's where I have a problem, a really good friend of mine in Atlantic County Superior Court is being charged by the same Prosecutor for theft by deception. They're saying that my friend stole from her company, which they clearly did not do. My friend was able to pay back what was owed, but the Prosecution has said that they wanted to see my friend punished, yet my friend has not hurt anyone nor have they really stolen. It was a simple clerical error by the human resources department, but they are charging my friend as a criminal. My friend is supposed to get jail time for something they didn't do, but this NFL star gets Pretrial Intervention for punching a girl. Does that make any sense to anyone? I think Governor Christie needs to take a look at how judicial system down in Atlantic County because they have it backwards.
By the way, no comment from the Atlantic County Prosecutor's office regarding the new evidence. I have to say, I am not shocked in the least. There's something very crooked in South Jersey where real criminals go free and people who aren't criminals are getting the crap end of the stick. Sorry for taking this political, but what is fair is fair. If my friend has to serve time for a crime they did not commit, then Ray Rice needs to serve time for a crime that he did, and Roger Goodell needs to wake the hell up!
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