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.
Here's what I'd expect if he had just lost this temper and knocked her out -- him showing some a sense of panic, kneeling over her, saying he was sorry and trying to revive her. That would be the reaction of someone that had lost control and regretted his actions.
Showing no reaction at all tells me Rice is serial abuser and someone with little, if any, conscience.
He didn't have to -- he knocked her out with ONE punch. Boxers don't throw punches after their opponent is on the canvas, either.
Seriously, threatening her while she cowered in the corner is worse than rendering her unconscious?