In his suspension appeal, Rice’s main defense is that TMZ edited the video! Huh?! Hit the jump for details.
Via Complex Sports:
As was expected, Ray Rice is appealing his indefinite suspension following the September 8 release of the inside-elevator footage of him knocking out his fiancée with a vicious punch. It appears that one of Rice’s central arguments will be that Roger Goodell’s decision to suspend Rice indefinitely was flawed, because it was made based on a videotape that was heavily edited.
Rice will contend that the “cleaned up” and compressed footage did not depict events as they truly unfolded. But, um, that wasn’t really the point of the suspension, was it? Rice wasn’t banned because the footage showed everything happening quickly; he was banned because he knocked his fiancée unconscious.
Via TMZ:
Ray Rice will reportedly argue that TMZ Sports edited the “inside the elevator” video … thereby altering what really happened that night.
He’s right. We did edit the video … and we made that point crystal clear in our original post — the same post where we also INCLUDED the raw unedited version showing Rice KOing Janay Palmer.
As we initially reported, the original raw video was jerky — in that it would move forward and then in reverse every couple of frames … so we removed the reverse frames.
Again, TMZ Sports included the raw video in our original post.
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