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[croemer]

TMZ’s Charles Latibeaudiere was a guest on FS1’s Fox Sports Live Monday evening to discuss Ray Rice.

“We have spoken to multiple sources at Revel Casino, which of course is now closed, but we’ve spoken to people who were working there at the time,” he said. “And we are assured that someone from the NFL — it wasn’t Roger Goodell walking in, we know that — but there were people from the NFL who came and saw the video. So now the question becomes how much of that information got back to Roger Goodell, and did he ever see an actual copy of the video?”

Could he name names?

“We don’t know who it was,”Latibeaudiere said. “We just know that employees of the NFL were at the casino to see the video.”

It’s unclear if this is part of the bombshell that Harvey Levin promised earlier, but it seemingly contradicted Levin’s presumption that the NFL had deliberately avoided seeing the tapes. However, if TMZ does have hard evidence, as opposed to just hearsay, of league officials having viewed the casino surveillance tapes, that would mean that NFL spokesman Greg Aiello gave a false statement earlier today when he said that “o one in our office has seen it until today.”

[Preds]

On 9/9/2014 kaybee said:

Someone on ESPN said they have a child together. I had never heard that before. That makes a huge difference on how "easy" it would have been for her to walk away from him. Some women make the choice to stay so they don't have to turn their babies over to their abusers for visitation. It's not easy to hand a child over to a screaming maniac.

Yes, and she may not leave him until the day comes when he abuses the child instead of her. I pray that never happens to the child or her, again.

[croemer]

I heard this morning there is a longer version of the tape to be released...possible tomorrow. This from TMZ today:

TMZ’s Harvey Levin was a guest on Washington DC’s Fox 5 today, and claimed to have evidence that will, in the best case scenario, prove that the NFL was willfully ignorant of the surveillance video that TMZ published this morning.

“When you wake up tomorrow and go to our web site, you will see what the NFL didn’t do,” he said. “I have gotten conflicting stories on this, and we have some people saying [the league] saw this, but I now believe they actually turned a blind eye to it, and it’s a shameful story. The NFL knew this surveillance video existed. They knew that this casino had surveillance video. I know they knew that, and we will explain later why we know they knew that, but they did — and they didn’t do anything to look at this video.”

“It almost feels like the NFL didn’t want to know,” he said. “The only reason all of this has happened today is that the NFL was backed into a corner because we put this video up.”

It goes without saying that it’s not a great look for the league that the absolute best case scenario is that they were egregiously incompetent.

[Lipstickdiva]

On 9/8/2014 tansy said: For some women domestic abuse is just the norm. They grew up with it:/

On both sides. What he did was horrendous. I noticed that she also hit him as they were walking towards or waiting for the elevator. Not in the face but she swung at him which made me wonder about their relationship.

I know people who abuse each other on a fairly regular basis. They get into physical altercations with each other. Sometimes she starts it, sometimes he starts it. It's the way they are.

Maybe this is the way their relationship is. Who knows. I just do not understand her marrying him AFTER this. I would bet this wasn't the first time this happened and probably not the last.

Sorry but I just don't get it.

[terrier3]

I looked up the timeline of this case.

On 2/15, BOTH Rice and his fiancée were arrested.

On 3/27, after a grand jury reviewed the case, the charges were dropped against his fiancée and he was indicted on aggravated assault.

On 3/28 - the very next day - they married. The wedding had been planned for this summer - they moved it up to the day after his indictment. As his wife, she has the right not to testify against him.

I wonder if the wedding was coerced in some way?????

[biancardi]

On 9/9/2014 LipstickDiva said:

On 9/8/2014 tansy said: For some women domestic abuse is just the norm. They grew up with it:/

On both sides. What he did was horrendous. I noticed that she also hit him as they were walking towards or waiting for the elevator. Not in the face but she swung at him which made me wonder about their relationship.

I know people who abuse each other on a fairly regular basis. They get into physical altercations with each other. Sometimes she starts it, sometimes he starts it. It's the way they are.

Maybe this is the way their relationship is. Who knows. I just do not understand her marrying him AFTER this. I would bet this wasn't the first time this happened and probably not the last.

Sorry but I just don't get it.

she swung at him because he was spitting at her in the face

[Catitude]

They are both dysfunctional. He deserves to be punished, she deserves to get her head examined for loving a guy like that and participating in sick behavior (including her provoking him) which they think is love.

[Catitude]

So he spits at her and she marries him. Oh well. Some women have no idea what love is.

[LilacTree]

Carol Costello, an anchor on CNN said this morning that she had been a victim of domestic abuse (in the worst way) by her boyfriend in college. She said after it happened once, he begged her forgiveness, said he changed, and she went back to him. And he did it again. She said that was it, she was done. I thought it was so brave of her to tell her story when she is an anchor newswoman who we see every day. However, she is very involved in domestic abuse organizations and obviously it has affected her all her life.

Men who abuse, abuse all vulnerable beings, including animals, children, women (girlfriends, wives, sisters, mothers). And they never change. I know women abuse too, but in far less numbers.

I've never heard of this "little" man (and he is little, his wife towers over him), and to find out he is a football player and the NFL pretty much ignored it, is no surprise to me. On the same program one of the talking heads tried to explain how football is such a violent sport, and it takes time for a player to "come down" from that state of mind when the game is over. That's supposed to be an excuse? What bull!!

[brii]

They both need help.