Keith Olbermann hammers Roger Goodell over Ray Rice suspension, cites a profound ‘ethical breach’

The public wasn’t very receptive to the two-game suspension the league handed down to Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice after he laid his hands on his fiancee, now his wife, at an Atlantic City casino.

Many felt like the suspension was too light and that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell let Rice off too easily instead of holding him accountable for his actions. A valid point considering those who fail a drug test for smoking marijuana would get a four game suspension, twice the length of Rice’s.

Amongst those is ESPN television personality Keith Olberman, who ripped Goodell on his show.

“If Roger Goodell really conducted a meeting with both Ray and Janay Palmer Rice present, he destroyed the impartiality of his own investigation. He ruined it,” Olberman said. “I call on Commissioner Goodell to withdraw his two-game suspension of Ray Rice now and recuse himself from determining Rice’s punishment and say that the decision about how long Rice should be suspended has been turned over to, well, to almost anybody who didn’t make the victim sit next to her attacker in front of his employers and the judge.”

You can watch the entire segment below.

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