Ravens sack Rice after video shows wife assault

Baltimore Ravens have released running back Ray Rice hours after a shocking video surfaced showing the NFL star punching his then-fiancee.

The TMZ website posted the surveillance video shot in February showing Rice punching his soon-to-be wife, Janay Palmer, in an Atlantic City hotel elevator.

A few months after the incident, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Rice without pay for the first two games of the regular season and fined him for “conduct detrimental to the NFL”.