(September 9, 2014 at 9:20 am)Tonus Wrote:(September 9, 2014 at 8:28 am)Deidre32 Wrote: If he had knocked out a total stranger in public, he'd have been arrested.He was arrested, and convicted (guilty plea) and sentenced. I think the difference is that if it had been a stranger, he was more likely to get jail time (1-3 years was on the table, they went with a much lighter sentence).
I agree that the reaction by the team and league are inexcusable. Rice's explanation was that she had attacked him and thus he struck in self-defense, but she's not a physically imposing person. Rice stands 5' 8" tall and weighs around 215 lbs, and as a pro-athlete his build is thick with muscle. Palmer appears shorter, and based on her physique may be less than half of Rice's weight. The idea that he had to knock her unconscious out of some attempt to defend himself from attack is laughable, but until the video came out the league/team thought that they could just shrug their shoulders and say "we don't really know what happened." As if a guy bludgeoning his girlfriend and dragging her around like a sack of garbage might be mitigated by a few seconds of corroborating video.
Holy cow, I didn't know all that. I just looked up on google the timeline of events. Wow.
The saddest fact of all was that she still went through with marrying him. After the assault. Abuse is a hard thing to understand. Ive been in abusive relationships and they're hard to leave because you don't think you deserve better.
She had that mindset, sadly. Love has nothing to do with accepting abuse.
Thank you for those facts!
