So because Hope Solo is a girl, she will be treated differently. There is no rush to judgement in her case.
This is a troubling aspect of the NFL rush to judgement in recent domestic violence cases. These players are not being allowed the due process of seeing their cases go through the legal system, before the NFL starts banning players from playing.
It is because she is a she, so beating people is ok. Otherwise the cry would be sexism.
I’m kinda with you on the due process part but lose you on the “moral equivalency”component of the argument.
Meaning, Ray Rice doing a round house left hook on his 100 lb (or thereabouts) wife that could have easily killed her is, at least in my mind, a major felonious attack.
Solo and her sister and her nephew getting in a ruckus at her sisters house, with everyone being essentially the same in the physical strength dept, and no significant injuries, to me is small change compared to what Rice did.
So, back to “due process”, Solo does not have 10-20 million bucks to hire lawyers to stretch “due process” out to the “un recognizable” . Ray Rice does. So, to me, the NFL, trying to rescue its well deserved tattered reputation, is within it’s rights to try and keep this felon in waiting off the field on Sunday afternoon national television.
I would let penniless Solo (by comparison to Mr Rice) play and I would suspend Rice, which, I guess, is a long round about way of saying I agree with what currently is going on in both cases.