{"id":6416,"date":"2014-09-08T20:48:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/08\/rice-caught-on-camera-cut-by-ravens-suspended-by-nfl\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T20:48:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:48:56","slug":"rice-caught-on-camera-cut-by-ravens-suspended-by-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6416","title":{"rendered":"Rice caught on camera; cut by Ravens, suspended by NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ray Rice doesn’t think so, but it’s a good thing an elevator camera didn’t blink.<\/p>\n

It happened to catch the former Baltimore Ravens running back in the act of cold-cocking his then-fianc\u00e9e — who’s now his wife — in a hotel elevator.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/11489134\/baltimore-ravens-cut-ray-rice-new-video-surfaces<\/p>\n

TMZ released copies of the video. The National Football League expressed appropriate outrage. The Ravens released Rice and the league has slapped him with an “indefinite” suspension.<\/p>\n

This all comes after the league announced a tough new policy regarding domestic violence and after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell — in an extraordinary mea culpa — disclosed that he “got it wrong” when he imposed a two-game suspension on Rice for allegedly beating the woman unconscious.<\/p>\n

The camera now has revealed that there’s no “allegedly” about it. He did the deed and has been kicked out of the league presumably for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

In July, Rice said this about what he did: “I know that’s not who I am as a man. That’s not who my mom raised me to be. If anybody knows me, they know I was raised by a single parent, and that was my mother. I let her down, I let my wife down, I let my daughter down. I let my wife’s parents down. I let the whole Baltimore community down. I let my teammates down. I let so many people down because of 30 seconds of my life that I know I can’t take back.”<\/p>\n

That’s not who he is as a man? Well, I will differ with him on that. The video reveals something quite different.<\/p>\n

Yes, he let a lot of people down. Still, he must face the punishment he’s been given.<\/p>\n

The Ravens and the NFL have made exactly the right call.<\/p>\n

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Ray Rice doesn’t think so, but it’s a good thing an elevator camera didn’t blink. It happened to catch the former Baltimore Ravens running back in the act of cold-cocking his then-fianc\u00e9e — who’s now his wife — in a hotel elevator. http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/11489134\/baltimore-ravens-cut-ray-rice-new-video-surfaces TMZ released copies of the video. The National Football League expressed appropriate … Continue reading Rice caught on camera; cut by Ravens, suspended by NFL<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[532,1418,3302,3848,4001],"class_list":["post-6416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-sports-news","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-domestic-violence","tag-nfl","tag-ray-rice","tag-roger-goodell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}