I love watching ESPN in the AM or as I drive... but can't stomach this Ray Rice drama.
"I don't care if a woman slaps you 1000 times, you do not lay a finger on her" - Mike & Mike.
Look, yes, you don't hit a woman. But there are only so many times a person can be slapped or SPAT UPON before he puts his hands up to stop it. Yes, he punched her, which is a huge over-reaction.
He backed into a corner to get away from her. She slapped and lunged at him. He should have NOT punched her, but restraining her would have been a perfectly reasonable reaction to prevent him from seeing a broken nose. She had some muscle on her, and yes, a broken nose or blinded eye could easily have happened with her slapping him repeatedly.
I think it'd be nice to really create EQUALITY here. Charge them both. Charge her with assault for the multiple slaps/spits, then charge him with assault for using his NFL strength to punch a human being that hard. Let them both sit in jail for 30 days. And THEN let them out and see if EITHER of them gets violent like that again.
The way I see it, that'd stop LOTS of domestic violence. Many dudes would NEVER hit a woman - until the woman hits/spits on them over and over - and then they're human, they often lose it and react. BOTH parties should know that if they swing first, or they over-react, they do jail time.