Strike Back
In 2005, Ray Rice beat his wife on an elevator, and everyone seemed to have something to say about it. ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith said, “Let’s make sure we don’t do anything to provoke wrong actions, because if I come — or somebody else come, whether it’s law enforcement officials, your brother or the fellas that you know — if we come after somebody has put their hands on you, it doesn’t negate the fact that they already put their hands on you.” He later apologized, but was still suspended for a week. Things just spiraled downhill when Michelle Beadle tweeted her opinion.
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