After Ray Rice knocked his then-fiancée unconscious and then dragged her out of the elevator at an Atlantic City casino, cameras were still running. ABC News has obtained 45 minutes of footage showing the aftermath of the incident.
Rice tried to prevent ABC News from obtaining the video. A judge ruled against Rice.
“This is a time of healing and he, quite naturally, doesn’t want another media showing of what must have been the worst event of his life,” Rice’s lawyer, Peter Ginsberg, told ABC News. “What the media ought to be focusing on is the issue of domestic violence.”
I haven’t watched the new video and don’t plan to. Based on the description supplied by ABC News it sounds as if sheds no new light on the incident and contains nothing that objectively would be regarded as newsworthy. Its relevance primarily comes from its existence, given that a video taken earlier that night sparked one of the most bizarre and troubling periods in NFL history.
Some extra relevance comes from that same layer of human nature that turns heads when passing the scene of an accident. But not much.