The Ray Rice Elevator Video

I was going to say something un-nice about Baltimore but I will heed mother's advice for once and say nothing.

 

What "they" were doing also doesn't matter ... not as long as he's a 206-pound NFL player built like a fireplug and she appears to be about a buck-five and change. There is no moral equivalency at work here. There aren't two sides to the story. Ray Rice nullified his right to have his side equally considered when he knocked her out.

 

It takes a pretty high level of stupidity to wear the jersey of a player who was just suspended for doing a despicable act.

 

Aaron Hernandez jerseys were selling for a fortune after he was arrested.

 

Long time Raven C.J Mosely on last night's win:

“We wanted to get that for Ray” C.J Mosley said. “He was part of this organization for a long time. He put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it.”

 

I don't think for a second that Rice was just doing this for no reason other than to entertain himself. I don't doubt that they were fighting. I don't doubt that she said or did something that pissed him off.

So what? Does that change anything? It doesn't to me.

 

If you ask all of them the same question, someone was bound to say something stupid.

 

I'll ignore the name-calling because this has been an otherwise interesting thread. You asking about what might have happened in the moments before they appeared on video outside the elevator sounds an awful lot like when the Rice defenders were asking what might have happened inside the elevator before the video was released. They wondered what she might have done that could have caused Rice's reaction.

If not caring what happened before he spit in her face and knocked her unconscious makes me a putz, well, I can live with that.

Sorry, dude, I'm not "framing" anything. I'm reading your words.

No further comment necessary.

 

Absolutely. I said the same thing from the moment I saw the video. And maybe I'm a dope, but when I initially saw the video, there were several scenarios that I thought could have happened. I initially thought maybe she was just passed out drunk, then I thought maybe Rice had pushed her and she hit her head or something. Having not followed the case closely, it didn't occur that he just KOd her with one punch and then showed absolutely no remorse (not that that would have made it any better, of course). The video threw all that out the window.

 

Nothing excuses the punch, but if he had fallen to the ground or tried to help her or appear even the slightest bit concerned, you might be able to convince me the guy has a soul.

 

It's not a matter of "defending" him.

Domestic violence doesn't just happen.

Again pursuant to James Brown: How should we start discussing domestic violence that doesn't begin and end with reaction to the final result?

(And I didn't call you a putz. I said you're acting like one with your attempt at blue-font cuteness in an attempt to paint me into a corner.)