Ray Rice did not want people to see new security video showing Janay Palmer going through a range of emotions in the aftermath of being assaulted by her future husband.
Additional footage, obtained by ABC News , has emerged detailing the moments immediately following the hotel elevator incident involving Palmer and Rice until the couple are escorted away in handcuffs about 45 minutes later.
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The video shows Palmer and Rice arguing in the moments after he struck her as hotel personel responded. Moments later, Palmer was in tears. She is later seen kissing and nuzzling Rice as both parties are handcuffed and escorted down an elevator and into separate police cars after the Feb. 15 incident.
ABC News obtained 45 minutes of security-camera footage from the Atlantic City casino where the incident took place.
Rice reportedly took ABC News to court to prevent the release of the footage. His lawyer, Peter Ginsburg, explained why the former Ravens running back did not want the public to see it.
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“This is a time of healing and he, quite naturally, doesn’t want another media showing of what must have been the worst event of his life,” Ginsberg said in an interview with ABC News.
“What the media ought to be focusing on is the issue of domestic violence and why the NFL never did anything to construct a personal conduct program that works and why the NFL ignored the issue of domestic violence. Showing yet another Ray Rice video is simply a distraction.”
Rice was suspended two games by the NFL in September, then was suspended indefinitely by commissioner Roger Goodell after TMZ published video of Rice striking Palmer while inside the elevator. Rice later won an appeal of his indefinite suspension through arbitration and is eligible to play. Goodell this month announced changes to the league's personal conduct policy .