The hits keep on coming for the NFL in regard to its handling of the Ray Rice case, as video of the former Raven assaulting his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, was reportedly sent to the league in April.
According to The Associated Press, a law enforcement official in Atlantic City, New Jersey, sent video from the elevator at the Revel Casino Hotel to the league's security chief, Jeffrey Miller:
The source told Rob Maaddi of the AP that he has no idea whether Miller watched the security footage, but at the very least, a copy was delivered to his office.
Miller released a statement, via Kevin Clark of The Wall Street Journal:
The AP reported a few weeks ago that an unnamed NFL official received the security tape. A member of law enforcement replayed a voice mail from an NFL phone number. A female voice in the recording said of the video, "You're right. It's terrible," (via ESPN.com).
Don Van Natta Jr. and Kevin Van Valkenburg of ESPN's Outside the Lines reported last week on what they felt to be "a pattern of misinformation and misdirection employed by the Ravens and the NFL since that February night."
The Baltimore Ravens have since refuted the OTL report.
As more news breaks about the whole situation, the harder it becomes for league officials, commissioner Roger Goodell included, to deny that they hadn't seen the video until TMZ Sports released it in early September.
Goodell told Norah O'Donnell of CBS This Morning on Sept. 10 that the NFL asked for a copy of the video from law enforcement but was unsuccessful in its attempt. The league hadn't seen the full footage until two days prior.
The newest AP report casts more doubt about whether Goodell and the league have been entirely forthcoming with the way in which they've dealt with Rice and the fallout stemming from his indefinite suspension.
//from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/YgdtqL
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