On top of knocking her unconscious with a vicious punch, Ray Rice spat on Janay Palmer on Feb. 15 at the Revel hotel, according to ESPN’s Outside The Lines.
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Video of Rice punching Palmer was released via TMZ on Monday, but OTL has now reported more information about what went down that infamous night.
John Barr and Greg Amante write:
"One former staffer said Rice, the former Baltimore Ravens running back, spat in his then-fiancée’s face twice, “once outside the elevator and once inside,” prompting her to retaliate with movements that were ultimately countered with a knockout punch. According to the men, as Rice punched Palmer, the elevator the couple rode was rapidly approaching the hotel lobby just two floors above the casino floor. A security staffer, dispatched from his lobby post, saw Rice starting to drag his fiancée, who appeared to still be unconscious, out of the elevator.“Get him away from her! Get him away from her!” the first responder was told by another security officer over a radio, one former security staffer told “Outside the Lines.” The staffer had full access to the security footage."
Rice really couldn’t look any worse in terms of public perception after TMZ’s release of the video, but this latest information certainly doesn’t paint him in any better light.
The Ravens released Rice and the NFL suspended Rice indefinitely on Monday. Although there’s a strong argument to be made that the two parties should have come to those decisions long ago, it’s clear between this video and the OTL report that Rice should not be playing football right now.
The Ravens drafted Rice with the No. 55 pick of the 2008 NFL Draft.