{"id":9743,"date":"2014-09-09T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=9743"},"modified":"2014-09-09T00:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:05:55","slug":"ray-rice-punching-fiancee-take-back-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/ray-rice-punching-fiancee-take-back-words.html","title":{"rendered":"On Ray Rice Punching His Fiancee, I Take Back My Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in March – can’t believe it’s been that long already, I blogged about how I felt about Ray Rice punching his girlfriend. At the time, my understanding was that she spat on him and he punched her once. That was the story that was told to us anyway. You can read that post here<\/strong><\/a>. I was under the impression that he punched her once, not several times – although once is still one too many. But my argument was that if she was indeed the aggravator, then she cannot control how he reacts. There was a video of Ray Rice dragging a knocked-out Janay (his fianc\u00e9e) from the elevator, but the story was that she was drunk and passed out.<\/p>\n

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Ray Rice & Fiancee, Janay Palmer<\/p><\/div>\n

A new elevator video just leaked via TMZ. In this video, you see Ray Rice punching Janay several times in the face, and it’s very frightening to look at. Ray Rice is a football player, all muscle, so for him to punch her in the face like that, I cannot even begin to imagine what that felt like for her. So that’s why she was knocked out cold. Before they get into the elevator, you can see that she kind of taps him across the chest. Once in the elevator, he punches her across the face. She tries to hit back and he punches her again. She hits her head on the hand rail and passes out. HE. COULD. HAVE. KILLED. HER.<\/p>\n