[Chainmail]

I disagree: he hit that smaller, lighter woman straight in the face with a hard punch and knocked her unconscious. I don't know what cultural background you come from but where I've been raised, no man ever punches a woman, ever.

As a Marine battalion commander I had to deal with a Staff Sergeant who punched his girlfriend several times in the face. I had him court-martialed and he got six months in prison, a reduction in rank and a fine.

There is no excuse at all for slugging women and he deserves to lose his career over it.

[Savage Beast]

"no man ever punches a woman, ever."

What if she's attempting to kidnap one of your children at gunpoint?

[LeoMcNeil]

I agree a man shouldn’t hit a woman. My issue is that there just isn’t anything new here. We knew he knocked his then fiancee out. The video doesn’t change anything. How did people think a big NFL football player punching a girl was going to look?

[Theophilus]

It seems to me that what your Staff Sergeant did was more evil than what Rice did since he punched his girlfriend multiple times vs once. I'm glad you punished him according to the UCMJ and I'm sorry that your attention was diverted from preparing for war. In a sense you could say that your Staff Sergeant put the mission and lives of his fellow Marines at risk, an aggravation of his crime. BTW, thanks for your leadership and service.

What Rice did was an typically evil, visceral yet unjustifiable, sin/crime that was addressed, however inadequately, by the justice system of New Jersey (based in part, on the wishes of the victim). When the press/public demands that his non-judicial employer punish him, that is a kind of lynching or collective sacrifice to political correctness. The Ravens/NFL fanned the flames by capitulating and thus amputating Rice from itself based ironically, on another, far more massive, visceral reaction.

[IrishBrigade]

There is no excuse at all for slugging women

...minus her charging with a weapon of some sort, of course you’re right...self defense being a separate issue...