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Ray Rice Domestic Violence Video and NFL’s Delayed Response
An elevator surveillance tape has now gone viral, and Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice has been “suspended indefinitely” from professional football. But the details of his brutal attack on the woman he later married were reported in detail seven months ago. What took so long? And what’s next for other cases of domestic violence in the NFL?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readAn elevator surveillance tape has now gone viral, and Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice has been “suspended indefinitely” from professional football. But the details of his brutal attack on the woman he later married were reported in detail seven months ago. What took so long? And what’s next for other cases of domestic violence in the NFL? Juliet Macur is sports columnist for the New York Times.
