The Baltimore Ravens released Pro Bowl running back and domestic abuser Ray Rice on Monday afternoon but the applause for doing so grows more and more silent as further details about just how much the team knew beforehand is becoming public knowledge.
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Both the NFL and the Ravens re denying they knew anything about the most recent Ray Rice video until it was released by TMZ, but that might not be the entire truth. While the Ravens may have not seen footage of the video until yesterday, Ed Werder from ESPN reports that Ray Rice told the team in detail what the video showed when he was initially asked.
Sources say Ray Rice description to Ravens of what happened in elevator consistent with video but seeing brutality still stunned team owner
— Ed Werder (@WerderEdESPN) September 9, 2014
This is just as bad as seeing the video and not doing anything about it until you have to. If the Ravens indeed knew the brutal details of the video but were only changed by actually seeing it, that’s abuse enabling at it’s finest.
No one really knows what the Ravens did or didn’t see, but it’s starting to look like the team is less heroic than they want to be perceived.
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