[Williams]

I am not a Ravens or Ray Rice Fan but I have a few politically inconvenient points:

1. I don’t see how this incident was an example of “domestic abuse”. Drunken fight on elevator, wife spits on husband, comes at him, athlete husband (excessively) delivers one quick punch which knocks her out.

Is that the new “domestic abuse”? Far as I know DA was always some angry husband beating up on his wife on a regular basis. Not one quick fight.

2. The video should only have helped Ray Rice. We already knew he knocked her out. The video shows her come at him, he delivers a single quick reflexive punch. Might well have been illegal, but we knew that already. he did not attack or beat on her.

3. The real “villain” here after Ray Rice is the prosecutor who quickly let him off the hook.

4. They quickly buried the wife’s anguished plea that her life is being destroyed by firing him from a lucrative career.

5. Who ever said it is good to fire “domestic abusers” so that their family suffers financially, and they are left at home with time on their hands?

[Kazan]

2. The video should only have helped Ray Rice. We already knew he knocked her out. The video shows her come at him, he delivers a single quick reflexive punch. Might well have been illegal, but we knew that already. he did not attack or beat on he

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.