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BALTIMORE – The NFL players’ union is appealing Ray Rice‘s indefinite suspension, saying that he shouldn’t be punished twice for punching his fiancee in a casino elevator.
Rice was originally handed a two-game suspension in July under the NFL’s personal conduct policy after he was charged with assault for the February attack.
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The Baltimore running back had already served the first game of that suspension when, on last week, a video surfaced showing Rice punching Janay Palmer, now his wife, in that elevator. Within hours, the Ravens released Rice and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell extended the suspension to indefinite based on the “new evidence.”
Goodell and the Ravens say they never saw the video before last Monday. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that he had sent the video to a league executive.
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