Ray Rice Files Grievance Against Baltimore Ravens
By Cory Buck
Ray Rice has filed a grievance against the Baltimore Ravens for having been cut from the team after video emerged of Rice striking his then-fiancee.
Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice is filing a grievance against his former employer for having cut him after video emerged of Rice striking his then-fiancee in an elevator in Atlantic City. Rice contends that the team and the league already punished him for the incident, controversially suspending him for two games in July.
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Pro Football Talk reports that Rice stands to gain over $3.5 million by winning his grievance against the Ravens, who cut Rice only after video emerged of the incident. The league suspended Rice for two games in July, facing heavy public scrutiny thereafter. Rice has already filed a grievance against the NFL, and now if he can win this grievance against the team, he would recoup the salary forfeited when the Ravens cut him.
Ray Rice doesn’t deserve your sympathy, but he does deserve a fair legal process and there’s little doubt that the NFL and the Ravens botched this investigation by, at the very least, not diligently pursuing all available evidence.
The league made a decision against Rice after it felt it had the information it needed. To come back on that decision and double down against Rice creates a legal mess that team and league alike had to see coming, regardless of the necessity of purging Rice from the NFL forever. Had team and league alike addressed Rice as they should have the first time around, they wouldn’t be preparing for the legal battle ahead.
Rice’s grievance against the NFL is scheduled for November 5th and 6th, while the date on the Ravens grievance remains TBD.
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