Why we shouldn't be watching the Ray Rice video -

[one_voice]

8. This, this, this...

10000000x's this:

That we feel entitled to images of a woman being abused speaks volumes not only about the man who battered her, but about us

My comment on this:

It should have been prosecuted...

but I don't see why people need to see it. Do we need to see children being abused? Do we need to see rapes to know the brutality? A written description would have sufficed. I'm certainly not suggesting it be swept under the rug.

Respectfully, she's being victimized over and over again. She's entitled to her privacy. Not to have probably one of the worst if not the worst day of her life on blast for the whole world to see.

Not too mention I'd bet good money that someone was paid handsomely for that video. Sickening.

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and this:

Let me be clear...

I don't want anything hidden. I want him held accountable.

What I disagree with is the video. She's entitled to her privacy and not to be judged and tried in the media or on message boards. She's the victim. I find it strange that the people who are yelling the loudest about her being the victim have no problem with re-victimizing her over and over with this video. Metaphorically punching her in the face again and again....

The video is not needed. It could have been a written description.

When they entered the elevator they appeared to be having a disagreement. After a few minutes Rice punched Janay so hard that she fell hitting her head on the rail in the elevator car which left her unconscious for at least a minute and half.

Something like that. Do we really need to see her being punched? No I don't think so.

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