It can be so unsure how one is supposed to feel when a case of domestic violence is revealed by public figures. There should be no doubt about it — domestic violence is wrong — but if one hasn’t been a victim, you can’t really say how you would respond if you were in their shoes.
When the video of former Baltimore Raven Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, and dragging her from an Atlantic City hotel elevator was released yesterday (Sept. 8), the consequences of him being terminated by his team and then suspended indefinitely by the NFL were immediate.
Janay decided to take to her Instagram account about how she felt about her husband’s termination. She blasted the media for the “pain” it’s caused her family and said the video’s releases has made them “feel alone.” {The Baltimore Sun verified her account before it became private.)
“I woke up this morning feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I’m mourning the death of my closest friend,” Janay Rice wrote. “But to have to accept the fact that it’s reality is a nightmare in itself. No one knows the pain that [the] media & unwanted options from the public has caused my family. To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret every day is a horrible thing. To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass [off] for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific.
“THIS IS OUR LIFE! What don’t you all get. If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you’ve succeeded on so many levels.
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