Originally Posted by lazycash

Do you realize what complete chaos it would be if the law let the victim of domestic violence determine the fate of the accused? Women that are being abused physically are often too scared to press charges, therefore the attorney general is given the right to step in and formally file charges for the state in order to protect the victim.

Goodell claims he never saw the 2nd tape showing the punch when he rendered his initial penalty of a 2 game suspension. You may feel like the NFL shouldn't be involved, but Ray Rice signed a contract with a personal conduct policy. He was getting paid millions of dollars and along with that came the responsibility to conduct himself in a certain way off the field. No employer is going to sit idle if one of it's key employees is being shown all over the news conducting himself in the manner Ray did.