Rice hitting Palmer first, Palmer retaliating, and then the running back knocking his fiancée off her feet with a punch that caused her to hit her head on the hand rail, knocking her out. The recording then showed himdragging Palmer out into the hallway after the elevator doors open.
Shortly after this video was made public, the Ravens cut Rice from the team and the NFL announced they were suspending him indefinitely. An NFL spokesperson told TMZ Sports, “We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator. That video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until [when TMZ released it].”
In November 2014 Rice got his indefinite ban from the NFL overturned and in January 2015 he settled a grievance with the Ravens in which he had been seeking $3.5 million in back pay. The criminal charges against him were also dropped after he completed a one-year court-supervised program that included anger management counseling. Still, he never played in the NFL again.
