Feeling for Janay Palmer Rice

[Crockett]

It's a lot better to be married to a rich athlete who knocked you out in an elevator than to an unemployed pariah who knocked you out in an elevator.

I've very little tolerance for batterers in domestic violence situations. There's no healing unless there are consequences. That said, there needs to be some answer between nothing and everything. If rehabilitation is probable, then rehabilitation should be the goal of our justice system.

 

[pasotex]

The NFL is such a joke. They go from imposing too light a sentence to the equivalent of a death sentence. He deserves probably a half to a full season off.

I see zero reason to mock her.

I also do not think we know enough about their situation to truly judge and truthfully I don't really want to know any more about them.

 

[Seattle Husker]

I'm not. The fact that she married a guy who 1 month earlier knocked her out cold tells a lot about Janay's character. If she married him for the luxury of his salary and celebrity then they won't be married for long.

 

[Larry T. Spider]

There has been a movement on the web to stop asking women "why do you stay?" They believe the focus should stay on the abuser. Anybody else hearing this?

It seems like the focus is already on the abuser in most cases. Rice lost his job. Many other abusers end up in jail. I get that there should be tougher penalties, but asking why somebody would stay seems like a legit question in my mind. There is only one way to be a repeat victim and thats to stick around.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Larry, I saw the same yesterday and in my opinion the focus needs to stay the same. The offenders should be prosecuted and held accountable and the women should be questioned if they stay with an abusive man.

For these women to imply the men aren't questioned because women are asked why they stay is silly.

 

[Mr. Deez]

I'm all for Rice getting into trouble and for his dumbass wife being questioned for not leaving him. (Obviously, we know the real an$wer to that question.)

However, why is any of this the NFL's problem? Suppose that instead of being an NFL player beating his skank in a casino elevator, he was a burger-flipper at McDonalds beating his skank in a back alley after losing some of his bling-bling or his favorite stolen hood ornaments in a few rounds of dice with his homies. Would people get upset with McDonalds if they didn't fire him? Most likely, we'd never hear about it, but if we did, people would be asking why the DA isn't charging him with aggravated assault.

 

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