I remember Ray Lewis, John, but I wasn't aware of this case. Doesn't exactly paint the Ravens and the NFL in a great light.John in Louisiana wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:57 pm Their former player Ray Lewis was involved in the murder of two men outside a nightclub in Atlanta while Lewis was still a player. He and a group of his friends surrounded two men with whom they had had an altercation inside the club and stabbed them to death. A witness, who later recanted, said Lewis wielded the knife. Lewis maintained he did not, but refused to talk with the police about who had, and none of his friends who were there cooperated with police, either. They hung an obstruction of justice charge on Lewis and let him off with time served while awaiting trial.
Lewis and his friends fled the scene of the murders and somehow neither the murder weapon nor the clothes Lewis was wearing were ever found, and, of course, nobody in Lewis' group can recall what happened to them.
Because Lewis was such a great player, and still in the middle of his career, the team and the league set about the business of rehabilitating his image and were pretty successful in doing so. They raised a statue to him outside the stadium and parade him in front of the fans at the start of every game like he's some sort of hero. I'm disgusted by it all.
I watched the Aaron Hernandez documentary, and that was pretty shocking.
Also remember the domestic abuse cases involving Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, which were all over the news at the time.
