Does your employment contract have a “morals” clause in it? From the player contract boilerplate included in the CBA (emphasis mine):
If at any time, in the sole judgment of Club, Player’s skill or performance has been unsatisfactory as compared with that of other players competing for positions on Club’s roster, or if Player has engaged in personal conduct reasonably judged by Club to adversely affect or reflect on Club, then Club may terminate this contract.
when he was considered innocent
He was never really considered “innocent.” He admitted to something happening, but didn’t divulge the whole truth. Rather than go to trial, he cut a deal where he agreed to participate in programs for first-time offenders - anger management, “we don’t hit women, it’s not nice” classes, etc. Personally I find such cop-outs deplorable, I don’t see how it fixes things.
Even more sickening, they somehow convinced her to apologize for being part of the incident. How the hell are we going to make progress against violence when we have the victims apologizing for it?
if a grand jury didn’t indict me. Of course the new evidence , and really the old evidence, made those guys look silly in the first place.
When the whole thing blew up in February, she opted to not press charges. She was probably never interviewed without Rice or a representative of him by her side, so of course she’s not going to do anything that would wreck the meal ticket (she married him six weeks after the incident. While no one deserves to be treated like that, it’s hard to sympathize with someone who goes ahead with the wedding after an incident like that).
I don’t know who did or didn’t see that elevator tape before today; it should have turned up in the original investigation and based on that video a good DA should have moved forward using that as evidence, regardless of whether she decided to press charges or not. There’s a lot of confusion about whether the league saw it or not.