President Obama condemns Ray Rice in statement after sickening video of him knocking out his fiancée surfaces saying: 'Hitting a woman is not somethin

[Dave007inVegas]

Not sticking up for Rice but his wife looked like she was running her mouth and got in his face. How long had she been busting balls? There are a lot of women out there that don’t know when to give it a rest.

Mix in some booze and you have a recipe for violence. He snapped and laid her out. Now he’s fucked for eternity, no more millions for playing football and she will take whatever money he has when they inevitably divorce.

They deserve each other.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Ray Rice's wife posted a response on her Instagram account Tuesday regarding her husband's release from the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL's indefinite suspension when a video surfaced showing the former All-Pro running back hitting her in a hotel elevator.

"I woke up this morning feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I'm mourning the death of my closest friend," Janay Rice wrote. "But to have to accept the fact that it's reality is a nightmare in itself. No one knows the pain that the media & unwanted options from the public has caused my family. To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret every day is a horrible thing. To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass off for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific.

"THIS IS OUR LIFE! What don't you all get. If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you've succeeded on so many levels. Just know we will continue to grow & show the world what real love is! Ravensnation we love you!"

 

[JDeuce]

Ray Rice's wife posted a response on her Instagram account Tuesday regarding her husband's release from the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL's indefinite suspension when a video surfaced showing the former All-Pro running back hitting her in a hotel elevator.

"I woke up this morning feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I'm mourning the death of my closest friend," Janay Rice wrote. "But to have to accept the fact that it's reality is a nightmare in itself. No one knows the pain that the media & unwanted options from the public has caused my family. To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret every day is a horrible thing. To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass off for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific.

"THIS IS OUR LIFE! What don't you all get. If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you've succeeded on so many levels. Just know we will continue to grow & show the world what real love is! Ravensnation we love you!"

Gee, welcome to life in the public eye. This isn't the first time the paparazzi have made their living at the expense of a celebrity couple.

It's funny you mention her actions as well. If I walk up to a guy and start mouthing off to him, getting in his face , etc and he decks me...is 100% of the blame on him? If not, then why is his wife completely blameless in this incident?

Rice is a scumbag, but she seems perfectly content continuing to live with him. So even if Rice is kicking the crap out of her right this second, there is nothing more anyone can do if she doesn't press charges. Society can't take it upon themselves to decide and enforce how individual couples should act.

Like Dave said, these two deserve each other. If anyone believes that was the only time Mr R ever laid a hand onto I mrs. R, you're an idiot. Frankly, both the hubby and wife could use some therapy and counseling.

 

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Obama took a firm stand on the obvious. Why can't he take a firm stand against ISIS etc. I am not still absolutely sure that Rice is a bigger scumbag than Obama. At least Rice is sorry for what he did and he married the woman he hit. Obama is not in the least bit sorry for Benghazi (4 people killed), or for any of the multiple scandals involving his administration. Now if this video tape had gone missing (like the IRS emails) there would have been an uproar. Only in America.

 

[mplastered]

At what hole did Obama get the chance to view the video?

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Is everyone suddenly flipping out today because it's the shock of what they saw in the video? If not, then I don't understand the outrage.

A few months ago, Ray Rice was shown dragging his unconscious wife out of the elevator...and another video also showed they both walked into it upright before that took place. It doesn't take a forensics team to conclude something must have happened during the elevator ride that put his wife into the unconscious state. Rice even admitted hitting her before today's video came out.

So, I'm a little lost as to why people are bringing out the pitchforks today and not four months ago when this first became known.

Here you go JD…

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/08/ray-rices-firing-shows-bad-congress-isnt-like-nfl/

Amazing what a difference another video makes…

The Baltimore Ravens announced today via twitter that they “have terminated RB Ray Rice’s contract.” And the National Football Leagues says he has been indefinitely suspended.

About time. Actually, past time and this will not be the end of the scandal. Already questions are coming about what the NFL knew, what the Ravens knew and when they both knew it.

When the first video of Rice dragging his then-fiancée out of the elevator became public just weeks ago, the obvious question was “what happened inside the elevator and is there a camera that would show us?”

Either no one asked that question or they didn’t push hard enough to get an answer to that question. The NFL says it didn’t see the second part of the video until today but it now has another black eye for how it has fumbled on the issue of dealing with player misconduct. Thug behavior, domestic violence topping the list, should not be tolerated period – whether the offender is a “star” like Rice or a lowly member of the practice squad.

As a football fan living in Washington, D.C., I see some comparisons between the world of politics and the world of professional sports. Both owe their existence and success to the support of the public. Lawmakers don’t get elected if people don’t contribute to their campaigns and vote for them. Professional sports franchises don’t make it if people don’t buy tickets to their games and purchase team paraphernalia.

But there the similarities end.

Though no courtroom trial has been held, the public has seen the video and they have rightly determined Ray Rice is guilty. The Ravens should have moved to investigate this issue more quickly after the first video was released but, unlike most of the political class, once the facts were staring them in the face they did actually do the right thing – without the pressure of special prosecutors, congressional investigations, ethics hearings, and on and on. The pressure was coming from their healthy fear of potential blowback from angry and outraged customers – it was coming from the free market.

They reacted within weeks – compare that to the months and years of stonewalling and not doing the right thing or anything by our elected officials and government bureaucrats on Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the border, ISIS, and the list goes on.

The NFL and the Ravens franchise are businesses that understand they exist because they have customers. If only government and lawmakers got that.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

At what hole did Obama get the chance to view the video?

The 19th.

 

[rolltide]

At what hole did Obama get the chance to view the video?

kinda funny you think he watched it

simply woke him up from a nap and propped him up in front of a teleprompter then tucked him back in until it was tee time

 

[superbeets]

'We are in good spirits and I have to be strong for my wife': Ray Rice breaks silence about being fired by the Ravens hours after his wife blamed the media for 'embarrassing' them

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The disgraced NFL star has spoken publicly for the first time since he was fired on Monday
Rice said he was being 'strong' for his wife and that 'we'll continue to support each other'
Wife Janay had released a statement hours earlier in which she called her husband's sacking as a 'horrible nightmare'
She defended her husband and professed her love for him, calling Rice 'the man I love'
Janay, who married Rice just a month after the fight, also attacked the media for 'taking our happiness away'
Nike has cut ties with Rice and computer game developer EA Sports is removing him from Madden 15 NFL simulation


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Disgraced former Ravens running back Ray Rice has spoken publicly for the first time since he was fired on Monday in the wake the release of an explosive video showing him beat his now wife Janay unconscious.
Rice, who not only got cut by his team yesterday but was also indefinitely suspended by the NFL told ESPN via telephone that he was being ‘strong’ for his wife and the couple were in ‘good spirits.’
'I have to be strong for my wife,’ said Rice. '[Janay] is so strong. We are in good spirits.'
'We have a lot of people praying for us and we’ll continue to support each other. I have to be there for [Janay] and my family right now and work through this


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Disgraced former Ravens running back Ray Rice has spoken publicly for the first time since he was fired on Monday in the wake the release of an explosive video showing him beat his wife Janay unconscious

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After Rice spoke, he handed the phone to wife Janay who said: 'I love my husband. I support him. I want people to respect our privacy in this family matter.'
Rice also texted CNN and said: 'I'm just holding strong for my wife and kid that's all I can do right now.'
Earlier on Tuesday Janay, 26, had posted a statement on her (now-private) Instagram account in which she professed her love for her husband and condemned the media for their coverage of the incident which she called a 'horrible nightmare'.


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'I woke up this morning feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I'm mourning the death of my closest friend. But to have to accept the fact that it's reality is a nightmare in itself,' she wrote.
'No one knows the pain that the media & unwanted options from the public has caused my family.
'To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret every day is a horrible thing. To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass of for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific.

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Janay Rice posted a statement on her (now-private) Instagram account on Tuesday morning in which she professed her love for her husband and then condemned the media for their coverage of the story


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'THIS IS OUR LIFE! What don't you all get. If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you've succeeded on so many levels. Just know we will continue to grow & show the world what real love is! Ravensnation we love you!'
The couple married in March of this year, just a month after the now infamous incident in Atlantic City that was captured on security cameras.
Janay's Instagram profile includes the Bible quote: 'No weapon formed against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you' (Isaiah 54:17).
Another message posted by Janay on her Instagram account in July - before she made it private - asked people to 'stay off my page' if they didn't have anything positive to say.
'I've had enough of peoples unwanted comments on people and things they know nothing about,' she wrote.
At a press conference in May she had said that she regretted her role in the fight in Atlantic City. 'I do deeply regret the role that I played in the incident that night,' she said.
The Baltimore Ravens tweeted on Tuesday that fans will be able to exchange their 'Rice 27' jerseys at stadium stores following his dismissal.
Nike also announced that it was terminating its endorsement deal with the player, the same action it took previously with shamed high-profile athletes such as Michael Vick and Lance Armstrong.
The company is the official uniform supplier for the NFL and Rice also endorsed Nike footwear.


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Sports training equipment manufacturer Vertimax had already ended its contact with Rice in June.
According to Forbes, the running back was estimated to earn $1.6 million a year in endorsements prior to the elevator incident.
Video game publisher Electronic Arts also announced that it would scrub all traces of Rice's image from the Madden '15 game, the oldest and most popular football video game franchise.
Security footage of the sickening attack emerged on Monday and shows Rice knocking out his then fiancée Janay Palmer with a single punch in an Atlantic City elevator in February.
Rice was charged with felony aggravated assault but in May he was accepted into a pretrial intervention program that allowed him to avoid jail time.
At a press conference in May, the couple both appeared and called the incident 'mutual combat'. The Ravens tweeted that Janay 'deeply regretted her role in the incident'.
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I do: Just a month after the vicious attack that left her unconscious, Janay married Rice at a no expense spared wedding

In the wake of the tape's release on Monday, the running back had his $40 million Baltimore Ravens contract terminated and he was also suspended indefinitely from the NFL.
The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that a longer version of the assault tape had been made available to them.
The tape includes audio and the couple can be heard shouting obscenities at each other.
Janay appears to spit in the face of the three-time Pro Bowl running back right before he throws a knockout punch in a video revealed by a law enforcement official.
The higher-quality video shows Rice made no attempt to cover up the incident.
After Palmer collapses, he drags her out of the elevator and is met by some hotel staff. One of them can be heard saying, 'She's drunk, right?' And then, 'No cops.' But Rice didn't respond.
The video was shown to the AP on condition of anonymity because the official isn't authorized to release it.

The Baltimore Ravens tweeted on Tuesday that fans will be able to exchange their Ray Rice jerseys at stadium stores

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'Just know we will continue to grow & show the world what real love is!' wrote Janay Rice on her Instagram account on Tuesday in response to he release of previously unseen video of her husband beating her

If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you've succeeded on so many levels


Condemnation of Rice came from the highest level on Monday with President Obama adding his personal disgust over the sickening violence.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest released a short statement following consultations with the President
The statement read: 'The President is the father of two daughters. And like any American, he believes that domestic violence is contemptible and unacceptable in a civilized society.
'Hitting a woman is not something a real man does, and that's true whether or not an act of violence happens in the public eye, or, far too often, behind closed doors.
'Stopping domestic violence is something that's bigger than football – and all of us have a responsibility to put a stop to it.'
Vice President Biden also weighed to the controversy on Monday, saying that he believed the NFL 'did the right thing'.
‘So, you know the first reason the NFL responded to my view: there are so many women fans in this billion-dollar industry,’ he told NBC, adding, ‘so all of a sudden they said, “Wait a minute, he got suspended for a couple games? Whoa, that’s not enough.” Then, they get a little more sensitized. And then it was longer.’
He went on: ‘And then when the video was out there, and saw how brutal it was, the Ravens did the right thing - fired him immediately. Now, you can argue, they should have done it sooner, they didn’t want it. Whatever the reason is, it’s happening.’

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At a press conference in May, the couple both appeared and called the incident 'mutual combat' and the Ravens tweeted that Janay 'deeply regretted her role in the incident'


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Rice and Palmer married in March, just a month after the incident. They had been dating since 2008 and have a daughter, three-year-old Rayven


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[superbeets]

The Ravens had used words like 'respect' and 'proud' in referring to Rice following his arrest.
When the NFL announced Rice's two-game suspension for domestic violence on July 24, Newsome said: 'We respect the efforts Ray has made to become the best partner and father he can be.
'That night was not typical of the Ray Rice we know and respect. We believe that he will not let that one night define who he is, and he is determined to make sure something like this never happens again.'
Asked on Monday night if Rice misled him, Harbaugh said he didn't want to get into 'all that.'
'I don't think of it that way. Everything I said in terms of what I believe, I stand by,' he said. 'I believe that still, and I'll always believe those things, and (we'll) always stand in support of them as a couple, and that's not going to change.'
Rice said in a news conference this summer that his actions that night were 'inexcusable.' But the Ravens never took action against him until after the second video was released.
The NFL, which has been working hard to promote the game to women, also took action after the explicit video was released. Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that, based on the new video evidence, Rice has been suspended indefinitely.

We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator,' NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said on Monday morning.
'That video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until today.'
Rice's lawyer, Michael Diamondstein, declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press.
Rice, 27, stood to make $4 million this year.
'Obviously, any video that depicts an act of violence in that video is disturbing to watch. For our union, we have an unshakable position against any violence, certainly domestic violence included,' NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said at the Seahawks' facility in Renton, Washington. 'It will be a time for us now to catch up with everything else that has occurred today.'
He had been charged with felony aggravated assault in the case, but in May he was accepted into a pretrial intervention program that allowed him to avoid jail time and could lead to the charge being purged from his record.
After Goodell drew criticism not being tough enough on Rice, he wrote a letter to all 32 NFL owners in August saying he 'didn't get it right.'

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[superbeets]

Another message posted by Janay Rice on her Instagram account in July asked people to 'stay off my page' if they didn't have anything positive to say

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The couple held a joint news conference in May, where Rice apologized and Palmer said the incident was partly her fault, to the alarm of domestic abuse counselors


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[superbeets]

First-time offenders now face a six-game suspension.
Rice began his suspension Sunday, when the Ravens opened their season with a 23-16 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. He was scheduled to return after Thursday night's game against Pittsburgh.
He leaves the Ravens as the second-leading rusher in franchise history, behind only Jamal Lewis. A three-time Pro Bowl selection, Rice is the team's career leader in total yards from scrimmage (9,214) and is the only player in Ravens history to rush for 1,000 yards in four consecutive seasons.
But those are mere numbers, and his actions in that elevator shed a new light on him.
'I'm not going to go into what he told us or anything or if it matches or if it doesn't,' Ravens receiver Torrey Smith said. 'That doesn't matter. What matters is what you see. It wasn't a pleasant sight at all.
'Rice hasn't spoken often to the media since his arrest, but on July 31 he said this is 'something I have to live with the rest of my life.'
He added: 'I know that's not who I am as a man. ... I let so many people down because of 30 seconds of my life that I know I can't take back.'


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