08-01-2014, 01:42 PM
RICE SPEAKS OUT
Rice resolved the charges stemming from the February domestic abuse incident with his now-wife, Janay, and entered a pretrial intervention program in May, the NFL said. Under the program, he won't be prosecuted, and the charges will be expunged after a year.
The punishments, both from the NFL and criminal justice system, were widely decried as too light, and it quickly spiraled into debates over domestic violence and victim blaming.
I hope Ray Rice really means what he said in his public statement yesterday (though apologizing to his wife publicly seems for show, IMO) and it's not just cheap talk to combat some of the backlash against him, the NFL, and the criminal justice system.
Here's his public statement from 7/31.
Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/31/us/bal...?hpt=us_t4
Rice resolved the charges stemming from the February domestic abuse incident with his now-wife, Janay, and entered a pretrial intervention program in May, the NFL said. Under the program, he won't be prosecuted, and the charges will be expunged after a year.
The punishments, both from the NFL and criminal justice system, were widely decried as too light, and it quickly spiraled into debates over domestic violence and victim blaming.
I hope Ray Rice really means what he said in his public statement yesterday (though apologizing to his wife publicly seems for show, IMO) and it's not just cheap talk to combat some of the backlash against him, the NFL, and the criminal justice system.
Here's his public statement from 7/31.
Story: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/31/us/bal...?hpt=us_t4