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After reading a couple viewer comments about the tape showing Ray Rice knocking his fiance unconscious in an elevator and noting that the Jay-Z / Beyonce fight also took place in an elevator, the male Fox and Friends hosts wrapped up the segment with Brian Kilmeade telling us that "the message is take the stairs," which Steve Doocy then supplemented by adding "the message is when you're in an elevator there's a camera."
I would think the message is that it's not okay to hit women and if you do the consequences can (and should) be severe, but I guess the message to some is that if you want to hit women you should do it in places like stairwells where there aren't cameras.
Which message do you think should be taken away from this incident?
That certainly seems to be the overriding opinion of the Fox commentators and most of the people posting in this thread.
Unfortunately you are correct.
The big mistake America made was reclassifying assault of a spouse, partner or family member as a family disturbance and/or domestic violence and reducing the punishment, in a way we said it is not as serious and that it is somehow different. Explain how it is different if I assault my wife or assault the woman down the street? It isn't, the violence inflicts the same level of physical damage and may even leave a larger impact emotionally since it was done by someone you should be able to love and trust. Reclassify so that all assaults are handled in the same many when it comes to charges, stop allowing men, or yes women, that assault others to spend the night in jail then return to their life the next day as if nothing happened. When someone assaults another do the courts say the fitting punishment is to go to anger management classes and a couple of months of probation? Rice should have been arrested and charged with Felony Assault and once convicted, the film alone does that, sentence his arse to years in prison, too bad about his NFL career he was the one that gave that up by his actions.
As for the NFL and the Ravens, NOW they want to do something since they finally, supposedly, just saw the film from inside the elevator? Really? How on earth did they think she ended up being knocked out and dragged out of the elevator? They deserve no respect after how they acted when the issue first came up, a good team would have walked him to the door the second they say the original tape showing the dragging.
Clue to the Clueless:
If you are in a relationship where you feel it is required that you assault your partner or if they feel the same need, You Are In The Wrong Relationship, Get Out.
The big mistake America made was reclassifying assault of a spouse, partner or family member as a family disturbance and/or domestic violence and reducing the punishment, in a way we said it is not as serious and that it is somehow different.
Um, domestic assault is treated as a more serious crime than other assault, not as a less serious crime.
Does this mean you are more concerned with who reports it than the actual incident?
No. Just the way they "report" it.
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