09-09-2014, 08:52 AM
Okay. Thanks for clarifying, Duchess.
I haven't been able to ascertain your view clearly from what you've posted about your outrage as to the league's original penalty and then your subsequent comments that seemed to contradict what you'd previously posted. Now it's clear that you think she was asking for what she got because she swatted or slapped him after he spit on her.
I've laid my hands on people when pushed into a corner and swatted people away -- I've not fought tooth and nail in those cases or thrown punches -- just reacted to get someone away after I'd made it clear that I wanted them to stop. I'm glad that I wasn't dealing with someone who would have considered me deserving of being knocked out for not just standing there.
I don't have any bias in favor of Janay Palmer. I don't know a thing about her or Ray Rice personally. I'm going off of what I personally witnessed in the videos. I don't think her behavior warranted being knocked unconscious and dragged like that for laying her hands on him in this case. I wouldn't think she was justified had she knocked him out cold and dragged him had their behaviors been reversed either. Differences of opinion.
I haven't been able to ascertain your view clearly from what you've posted about your outrage as to the league's original penalty and then your subsequent comments that seemed to contradict what you'd previously posted. Now it's clear that you think she was asking for what she got because she swatted or slapped him after he spit on her.
I've laid my hands on people when pushed into a corner and swatted people away -- I've not fought tooth and nail in those cases or thrown punches -- just reacted to get someone away after I'd made it clear that I wanted them to stop. I'm glad that I wasn't dealing with someone who would have considered me deserving of being knocked out for not just standing there.
I don't have any bias in favor of Janay Palmer. I don't know a thing about her or Ray Rice personally. I'm going off of what I personally witnessed in the videos. I don't think her behavior warranted being knocked unconscious and dragged like that for laying her hands on him in this case. I wouldn't think she was justified had she knocked him out cold and dragged him had their behaviors been reversed either. Differences of opinion.