Ray Rice was just defending himself.
She could have hurt him, ended his carreer perhaps.
She had no hard feelings, she married him to keep riding that NFL gravy train.
..some sarcasm, but not much.
How the NFL responded is another story.
Excellent summary. It is not at all clear what Rice did, either. Get a better film. I could see her coming after him and being quite aggressive, but that is all I can tell. They were both arrested for assault.
As for the hoohah over the elevator external earlier, why is this such a big deal? If she was drunk out of her mind, she would be hard to pick up. I did not see anything so dreadful about this little guy trying to drag his girlfriend out of the elevator doors.
Hair hatted hooligans!