Do you see the video? Good grief. Rice used grossly excessive force toward a 110-pound woman stumbling toward him. He knocked her out with even smidgen of remorse, which indicates to me this is the first time he has hit a woman.
All the being said, it's the state of NJ that should be condemned for giving Rice a slap on the wrist, not the NFL. The NFL ended up getting his punishment correct.
The prosecutor was very outspoken in the fact his hands were tied by the law. He could not get Rice any jail time based on the statutes as they exist.
We have enough people ignoring or re-writing the laws already, we don’t need more.
Agree with your last comment.
As to the punch, he knocked her out, I knew that before I saw it. I don’t know how much “remorse” you expected to see in the video of him punching her.
Having seen him dragging her lifeless body out of the elevator, did you think it would show him blowing her a kiss?
HE committed a crime. However, he did NOT threaten her as she cowered in the corner. He did not repeatedly strike her. He was not shoving her around. Far as I could tell he wasn’t verbally harassing her.
That is why I said the video eliminated many worse things that could have been happening in that elevator. But everyone is in a feeding frenzy. We already knew that a powerful football player should not have struck and knocked his girlfriend unconscious.