NFL hired ex-Secret Service and FBI agents for Ray Rice investigation
The details get uglier by the minute. A tape came out Monday morning of Ray Rice hitting his former-fiance, now-wife. The tape shows what some might qualify for an aggravated assault indictment, which is three to five years in prison. But the NFL claimed they never saw that tape. Jeff Schultz reports that the NFL and Roger Goodell had ex-Secret Service and FBI agents employed for the “countless investigations.” So while the Peyton Mannings of investigation couldn’t uncover the tape, TMZ did.
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And currently, Ray Rice is suspended from the NFL for two games. Just a reminder, Wes Welker is suspended for four games after using amphetamines — rumored to be the recreational drug MDMA or Molly.
The NFL’s punishment policy has been exposed as archaic and, in this case, immoral.
With so many capable hands on deck to clean up the Ray Rice hurricane, it’s questionable that the former Secret Service and FBI members failed to uncover this tape. If they genuinely did not, then that was some kind of waste of money and time for the NFL. They might as well have not done an investigation at all, because it’s seeming more like they didn’t.
Rice’s punishment case could reopen. And as FanSided editor Josh Sanchez writes, it should.
The NFL’s statement is as follows, via NYDailyNews.com:
"“We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator. That video was not made available to us. And no one in our office has seen it until today,” the NFL said in a statement."