Crime & Safety

Disturbing New Video of Ex-Rutgers Star Ray Rice Shows What Happened Inside Atlantic City Elevator

TMZ Sports showed the fight between the Ravens player and his wife, leading to a two-game suspension by the NFL.

On Monday morning—after the Baltimore Ravens were smarting from a 23-16 loss to the Cincinnati BengalsTMZ Sports released a new video of the assault involving Ravens running back Ray Rice.

Rice didn’t play in Sunday’s season opener due to his two-game suspension by the NFL for a February assault in Atlantic City involving his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. (They married in March.)

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In the video footage released Monday, Rice and Palmer are shown arguing inside an elevator at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City. When the doors open, she’s out cold.

Previously, the public saw video from the aftermath of the fight, in which Rice could be seen pulling Palmer, who appeared unconscious, from the elevator.

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TMZ reports that it received the elevator footage from an employee of the Revel Casino Hotel, which has since gone out of business, along with several other Atlantic City establishments that have fallen on hard times.

Photo Credit: YouTube/TMZ Sports. Ray Rice and Janay Palmer in the elevator at Revel Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.


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