Ray Rice Cut By Ravens - Domestic Violence.

[Lepplady]

Check this out. Bill Polian was being interviewed by ESPN on what he thought of the league's handling of the Ray Rice situation. Polian is a former NFL exec and he worked in the NFL offices at one time. He was being interviewed and his interview was cut short by "technical problems." He was then brought back 20 minutes later and asked the same question. Check out the two answers:

Something Very Weird Happened During ESPN's Interview With Bill Polian

Funny how that works.

 

[Dana Jean]

Check this out. Bill Polian was being interviewed by ESPN on what he thought of the league's handling of the Ray Rice situation. Polian is a former NFL exec and he worked in the NFL offices at one time. He was being interviewed and his interview was cut short by "technical problems." He was then brought back 20 minutes later and asked the same question. Check out the two answers:

Something Very Weird Happened During ESPN's Interview With Bill Polian

Wow, that is very weird.

 

[fljoe0]

Wow, that is very weird.

I think I'll go with the first answer.

 

[Grandpa]

Check this out. Bill Polian was being interviewed by ESPN on what he thought of the league's handling of the Ray Rice situation. Polian is a former NFL exec and he worked in the NFL offices at one time. He was being interviewed and his interview was cut short by "technical problems." He was then brought back 20 minutes later and asked the same question. Check out the two answers:

Something Very Weird Happened During ESPN's Interview With Bill Polian

As to what happened in the intervening 20 minutes: Lawyers would call that "woodshedding." Someone obviously had a chat with the gentleman.

 

[kingricefan]

Football players are the gladiators of now. They are treated like Gods, are payed entirely way too much for what they do, have everything handed to them on a silver platter and are, apparently and obviously, above the laws that us little folk have to obey. I don't watch football, never did, but I am well aware of things that have happened over the years and that have either been hushed up or phoo-phooed by the police. It's not just at college level or even the professional levels, it goes all the way down to highschool players. How many girls need to be attacked/raped/beaten by players before something is done about the mindset of these people?

 

[Sigmund]

Bill Polian




Peace.​

 

[kingricefan]

Bill Polian




Peace.​

Exactly.

 

[AnnaMarie]

Okay, I just spoke to an adult man. He has never in his life been in a physical fight of any kind ever. He is the most nonviolent person I know. But I asked him about hitting a woman in general. (For the record, we did not speak to the specifics of the video other than he agreed that knocking out ANYONE was bad obviously. He feels no one should hit anyone so hard they are knocked out, but he says not to put a gender label on that.)

He did say, if a woman meant to do him bodily harm and was coming at him and she hit him, he would hit her back to defend himself. He said, just because a woman is a woman doesn't mean they can't really hurt someone. His comment was he would never ever throw the first punch, but if a woman were attacking him violently, he said Equal Rights, Equal Fights.

Comments on this?

There is a difference between defending ones self and knocking someone out. I don't think her hitting him was OK . But, I also don't think there was an serious risk of him being hurt. Not seriously hurt anyway. Maybe scratched.

 

[Scratch]

You haven't lived until you've been a little Scratched.

 

[fljoe0]

Women are less likely than men to be killed in America, but far more likely than the other sex to be intimate with their killer. Of all the women murdered in 2010, nearly 40 percent were killed by a spouse or someone they were dating, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. This number has been 30 percent or higher since 1996.
For men who are murdered, the percentage killed by someone they're intimate with hovers at about 2 to 3 percent.

The Only Thing Unusual About Ray And Janay Rice Is That Anyone Noticed

 

[blunthead]

...he deserves all he's gotten-plus should have been locked up on a felony, regardless of whether she dropped the charges...the Cult of Celebrity does not imply a free pass on brutality...

I was thinking the same thing per assault. Everybody's talking whether or not he should be suspended by the NFL. I say he should be arrested. I was listening today on the radio to a Senator speaking out that the NFL should adopt a no-tolerance policy per domestic abuse, and while as a rule I tend not to appreciate Congress-people truing to control sports activities, I agree with this one this time. Kids look up to celebrities, which imho means that celebrities, whether or not they appreciate the fact, have a duty to the public trust to set a good example. There are apparently too many thugs in sports (one is too many; but I recall a basketball game in which a player got po'd at a fan and threw a chair at him, then went into to the stands to attack him), and a culture of violence is unacceptable. Add to the problem an attack on a woman and the example is augmented.

 

[Lepplady]

Good question. Why isn't this guy in jail?

 

[blunthead]

I'm not saying that the level of professional courtesy usually shown by golfers should be expected in all sports. I'm not that naive. But, I think professionalism should be encouraged in all sports, and taught in mandatory classes when necessary.

 

[GNTLGNT]

I was thinking the same thing per assault. Everybody's talking whether or not he should be suspended by the NFL. I say he should be arrested. I was listening today on the radio to a Senator speaking out that the NFL should adopt a no-tolerance policy per domestic abuse, and while as a rule I tend not to appreciate Congress-people truing to control sports activities, I agree with this one this time. Kids look up to celebrities, which imho means that celebrities, whether or not they appreciate the fact, have a duty to the public trust to set a good example. There are apparently too many thugs in sports (one is too many; but I recall a basketball game in which a player got po'd at a fan and threw a chair at him, then went into to the stands to attack him), and a culture of violence is unacceptable. Add to the problem an attack on a woman and the example is augmented.

...yeah, that is precisely what should happen...but, until there is a complete mindset change-the cash cow of sports, especially the NFL-will not budge from their archaic "enforcement"...

 

[GNTLGNT]

Good question. Why isn't this guy in jail?

...his now wife refused to press charges...simple as that...no-one else can press charges...

 

[GNTLGNT]

I'm not saying that the level of professional courtesy usually shown by golfers should be expected in all sports. I'm not that naive. But, I think professionalism should be encouraged in all sports, and taught in mandatory classes when necessary.

...at least the golfers take it off the course when they square up...

 

[AnnaMarie]

...his now wife refused to press charges...simple as that...no-one else can press charges...

Seriously?

That law was updated here years ago. Because so often the woman is afraid to press charges, or drops them (either out of fear or forgiveness) domestic assault charges are pressed (laid?) by the police officer. It's a little bit harder for a hot headed husband to intimidate the cop into dropping charges.

In the Rice case, witnesses would include all the people standing around when he dragged her out of the elevator as well as the video, so even if she wouldn't testify it wouldn't necessarily matter.

 

[blunthead]

...at least the golfers take it off the course when they square up...

There are golfers and then there are the suicidally insane. Ironically, the latter sometimes show the most professionalism.

 

[kingricefan]

Good question. Why isn't this guy in jail?

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[GNTLGNT]

Seriously?

That law was updated here years ago. Because so often the woman is afraid to press charges, or drops them (either out of fear or forgiveness) domestic assault charges are pressed (laid?) by the police officer. It's a little bit harder for a hot headed husband to intimidate the cop into dropping charges.

In the Rice case, witnesses would include all the people standing around when he dragged her out of the elevator as well as the video, so even if she wouldn't testify it wouldn't necessarily matter.

...charges WERE brought, Agg Assault-but she refused to testify...here's more from NBC News:

Dropped NFL player Ray Rice, who was suspended indefinitely from the league Friday over video of him punching his now-wife, could have his criminal record wiped clean by next May, documents show. The ex-Ravens running back was charged with aggravated assault in March, but was granted a 12-month pretrial intervention in May as part of a deal with Atlantic County, New Jersey, prosecutors. As long as he stays out of trouble and meets with a probation officer, his record will be cleared.
The original indictment against Rice says there was "an attempt to cause significant bodily injury" to his then-fiancée Janay Palmer in an Atlantic City casino elevator in February. A complaint brought against Palmer for allegedly hitting Rice in the elevator was dismissed because of "insufficient evidence of criminal conduct."