Ravens Terminate Rice Contract as NFL Suspends Indefinitely
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The Baltimore Ravens terminated the contract of Ray Rice and the National Football League suspended the running back indefinitely after video emerged appearing to show him punching his wife in an elevator.
Rice, who was in the third year of a five-year, $35 million contract with Baltimore, was arrested Feb. 15 after getting into an altercation with Janay Rice, who was then his fiancee, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. While video at the time showed the 218-pound, two-time All-Pro dragging her out of a casino elevator, the footage from inside the elevator showing him striking her didn’t appear until today.