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The celebrity website TMZ published video Monday that shows Rice and his fiancée in an elevator, where Rice punched her. He then dragged her unconscious body from the elevator.
Previously published video was from taken from a camera outside the elevator at a hotel in Atlantic City in February. Rice was charged with felony assault in March, but after Janay Palmer, who has since married Rice, declined to testify against her husband, charges were reduced to court-supervised counseling.
After the incident, the Ravens said on Twitter: @Ravens: Janay Rice says she deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident.
The emergence of new, more graphic video of Ray Rice punching his former fiancée has raised fresh questions about N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell’s decision to suspend the Baltimore Ravens running back for two games.
The celebrity website TMZ published video Monday that shows Rice and his fiancée in an elevator, where Rice punched her. He then dragged her unconscious body from the elevator.
Previously published video was from taken from a camera outside the elevator at a hotel in Atlantic City in February. Rice was charged with felony assault in March, but after Janay Palmer, who has since married Rice, declined to testify against her husband, charges were reduced to court-supervised counseling.
After the incident, the Ravens said on Twitter: @Ravens: Janay Rice says she deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident.
At the end of August, a month after his initial decision, Goodell reversed course. In a letter to team owners, he said he took responsibility “both for the decision and for ensuring that our actions in the future properly reflect our values. I didn’t get it right.”
Goodell said that in the future, any N.F.L. employee, including nonplayers, would be suspended for six games for a first offense of domestic violence and a minimum of a year for a second offense.
The more explicit video, though, raises questions about what information Goodell reviewed before deciding to suspend Rice. The league has said the commissioner took his cue in part from law enforcement officials who had access to more information than the league, including perhaps the new video.
The N.F.L. has its own security personnel who compile their own reports. Goodell based a lot of his decision on his interview with Rice and Palmer, and their reaction in the wake of the scandal.
“I think what’s important here is that Ray has taken responsibility for this,” Goodell said to reporters in Canton, Ohio, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, at the beginning of April. “He’s been accountable for his actions. He recognizes he made a horrible mistake, that it is unacceptable, by his standards and by our standards.”