Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) on Sunday said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would need to resign if he did lie about what the league knew about Ray Rice’s domestic assault and the video of him hitting his fiancee.
“Initially I wanted him lead the reform to actually create and enforce a zero-tolerance policy,” she said on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” but said she could change her mind.
“If he lied to the American people, he has to step down. Because he won’t have the forceful authority to change how they address these issues,” she said.
According to reports, the NFL may have seen the full video of Rice hitting his then-fiancee Janay Palmer. The league had said that it did not obtain a copy of he full video.
Gillibrand said there’s an institutional problem in the NFL, as well as in the military and on college campuses, with how they treat women.
“The institution gathers and surrounds their star player, their golden boy, whomever it may be, without any regard for the victim and survivors, without any regard for women,” she said. “Are women being valued? Are they being valued by these institutions?”
“Gillibrand said there’s an institutional problem in the NFL, as well as in the military and on college campuses, with how they treat women.”
1,001 times this. Men are given a free pass for reckless violence. The air force is a bloody fundamentalist cult and we know what they think of their women-folk.
May social media eat these people alive.
Quite frankly, I was dismayed that Goodell led with his chin regarding “when he knew about the video”. The suspect transparency was evident from the beginning.
A far more constructive tactic would have been to fess up as much as possible and as soon as possible, accept all of the responsibility and leave the pursuers nowhere to go.
Then he could turn more of his attention to policy, rather than cover-up.
Senator Gillibrand is absolutely right and setting the right framework for accountability.This is a simple common sense standard. If the NFL had the video and Godell lied, he should go. The owners who let convicted domestic abusers to play on during the regular season should be required to sell their stake.
Considering that the “independent investigation” is staffed with friends and purt-near family, while I agree with the Senator, we know the fix is already in.
As always, this is about business, not the idyllic Supermanesque gibberish about truth, justice, and the American Way.
Changing the topic. I wonder if anyone has told Sen. Gillibrand how hot she is.