Baltimore Ravens Drop Ray Rice Following Wife-Beating Video

The Baltimore Ravens announced Monday that it had released running back Ray Rice after a video was released showing Rice beating his wife in an Atlantic City hotel elevator back in February.

Ravens coach John Harbough told reporters Monday night that after a brief meeting with other head coaches, his team had decided to terminate its contract with 27-year-old Rice. The running back has also been indefinitely suspended by the NFL after TMZ released a video Monday morning showing the football player knocking out his wife with a punch in an Atlantic City elevator back in February. Previously, the only security video released to the public showed Rice dragging his unconscious wife, then fiancé, out of the elevator.

"It was something we saw for the first time today, all of us. It changed things, of course. It made things a little bit different," Harbough said of the video.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello also announced via Twitter that Rice's suspension from the NFL as a whole had been extended indefinitely after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell viewed the elevator video this morning.

"Roger Goodell has announced that based on new video evidence that became available today he has indefinitely suspended Ray Rice," Aiello tweeted.

The video shows Rice punching his then-fiance Jana Palmer multiple times in a hotel elevator in Atlantic City, New Jersey last February. The video shows the couple entering the elevator, where Rice punches Palmer. Palmer then lunges at the football player, who punches her again before she's knocked out on the floor.