Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The Ravens are standing by Ray Rice no longer. 
  
 After months of publicly supporting the much-maligned running back, the Ravens terminated Rice’s contract Monday afternoon on the same day video surfaced of him striking his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer, in an Atlantic City, N.J. casino elevator in February. 
  
 The decision came after a morning meeting with Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, team president Dick Cass, general manager Ozzie Newsome and head coach John Harbaugh. 
  
 “It was not a long meeting and we came to the decision that we came to, to release Ray,” Harbaugh said at a Monday evening news conference following the team’s walk-through practice. Harbaugh was the only Ravens official to comment on the move. “I had a chance to talk to Ray, along with Ozzie, this afternoon after we did it. Nothing but hope and good will for Ray and Janay. We’ll do whatever we can … to help them as they go forward to try and make the best of it.” 
  
 About 30 minutes after the organization announced its decision to cut Rice in a 12-word press release, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, who was widely criticized for initially banning the running back for only two games, said that three-time Pro Bowl selection is suspended from the league indefinitely based on “new video evidence that became available” Monday. 
  
 Monday’s news capped a stunning downfall for the 27-year-old who had been one of the Ravens’ most popular and productive players. Now, just two years after signing a five-year, $35 million contract extension with the organization, Rice’s tenure with the Ravens is over and his NFL career is in jeopardy. 
  
 “It’s definitely disappointing,” said Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith, who has been one of Rice’s most vocal supporters on the team. “We’re in a limelight position. To whom much is given, much is required. A lot of things are given to us, we have to be held to a higher standard. Obviously, he’s been suspended, I guess, indefinitely. But the punishment is the punishment. It was tough what he did. You can’t say the punishment doesn’t fit the bill.” 
  
 “Everyone is stunned,” Smith added. “I know it’s not a good-looking video at all.” 
  
 Harbaugh met Monday and informed the players of the decision. It made for a somber environment at the team facility as the Ravens got back to work after dropping their regular-season opener, 23-16, to the Cincinnati Bengals. The Ravens have less than four days to prepare for a nationally-televised matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers, their chief rivals, on Thursday night. 
  
 Steelers-Ravens week traditionally attracts more media than what’s usually at the team complex, but the number of cameras lined up outside and then in front of Harbaugh when he spoke after practice indicated that it was anything but business as usual. In fact, the number of reporters at the facility rivaled the amount that were present the week before the team departed for Super Bowl XLVII. 
  
 “I think the team responds just the way everybody responds to these things. You’re talking about somebody that you know,” Harbaugh said. “It’s a little more challenging when you’re talking about somebody who is part of your family so to speak. Our guys felt it.” 
  
 Both Smith and defensive end Chris Canty grew emotional when talking about Rice’s situation. 
  
 “I think everybody was stunned this morning when we woke up. It was a deplorable act,” Canty said. “He made a terrible error in judgment. I think it’s easy in the situation to point a finger of blame rather than extend a hand of help. Clearly, this is going to be something that they’re going to need help and they’re seeking help.” 
  
 Rice was indicted on an upgraded aggravated assault charge on March 27 after prosecutors in Atlantic County, N.J., reviewed the case for several weeks before presenting it to a grand jury, which handed up the indictment. Rice, however, was accepted into a pre-trial diversionary program that allowed him to avoid jail time. 
  
 Rice and his wife have been getting therapy and counseling and Harbaugh said that the team had gotten positive reports about the sessions. The running back had been eligible for reinstatement on Friday morning, a day after the Steelers’ game. The plan had been for him to make his season debut on Sept.21 against the Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium. 
  
 However, Bisciotti and the Ravens’ decision makers no longer felt that they could afford to stand by Rice in the face of additional video evidence against the running back, and an onslaught of negative publicity. With the move, the Ravens immediately saved $3.529 million against this year’s salary cap, but they now face a cap hit of $9.5 million in dead money in 2015. 
  
 “It’s something we saw for the first time today, all of us. It changed things of course,” Harbaugh said. “It made things a little bit different.” 
  
 Asked how it changed things, Harbaugh said. “I don’t know if I want to get into all the details about it. I think it’s pretty obvious and pretty apparent. Everybody has seen the video. I’ll just leave it that.” 
  
 Back in February, TMZ put out the video of Rice dragging an unconscious Palmer out of an elevator at the now-closed Revel casino. The video that the website published Monday showed what preceded the initial one — Rice punching his now-wife with his left hand, causing her to hit her head on the side of a rail in the elevator. 
  
 Both the Ravens and NFL said they hadn’t seen the video before it came out Monday. 
  
 “We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator,” said NFL spokesman Greg Aiello. “That video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until today.” 
  
 Smith and Harbaugh wouldn’t say what they initially believed happened inside the elevator that February night, but the video was clearly jarring to the organization. 
  
 “I’m not going to go into what he told us, or if it matches or if it doesn’t. That doesn’t matter,” Smith said. “What matters is what you see. … It wasn’t a pleasant sight at all. We all focus on Ray, but there’s still a victim in that in Janay. He’s like a sister to my wife and I, so we’re trying to support her just as much as Ray.” 
  
 Drafted by the Ravens in the second round of the 2008 draft, the diminutive back out of Rutgers rushed for 6,180 yards and 37 touchdowns, and caught 369 balls for 3,034 yards and six touchdowns over six NFL seasons. ||||| The Baltimore Ravens announced the release of Ray Rice on Monday. 
  
 Shortly after, an NFL spokesperson announced that the running back has been suspended indefinitely. 
  
 A video emerged on TMZ of Rice punching his now-wife in an Atlantic City casino elevator. Rice was previously suspended two games on July 24 for violating the league's personal conduct policy for the same incident. 
  
 The Ravens supported Rice as an organization in the immediate aftermath of the incident back in March, but the release of this video changed their stance. NFL Media's Judy Battista was told the Ravens heard a "softer" version of the events included on the videotape. The NFL said Monday that they had not seen the video during their investigation. 
  
 "We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator. That video was not made available to us and no one in our office has seen it until today," the league said in a statement released to NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport. 
  
 TMZ reported Tuesday morning that the NFL did not ask the Atlantic City casino for the Rice elevator tape. 
  
 The league released the following statement in response: "Security for Atlantic City casinos is handled by the New Jersey State Police. Any videos related to an ongoing criminal investigation are held in the custody of the state police. As we said yesterday: We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator. That video was not made available to us." 
  
 Lt. Brian Polite, New Jersey State Police PIO, confirmed to NFL Media on Tuesday that the jurisdiction in regards to the Rice incident was not with their department but instead with the Atlantic City Police Department. He also confirmed that the New Jersey State Police never had the video of the Rice incident. 
  
 "We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including any video that may exist. We spoke to members of the New Jersey State Police and reached out multiple times to the Atlantic City Police Department and the Atlantic County prosecutor's office. That video was not made available to us and no one in our office saw it until yesterday," the league later said in a second statement. 
  
 "We do not interfere with law enforcement investigations. We cooperate with law enforcement and seek any information that can be appropriately provided." 
  
 Per Paul Loriquet, a spokesperson for the New Jersey Attorney General's Office, "Per It's grand jury material. It would have been improper -- in fact, illegal -- for the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office to provide it to an outside/private/non law-enforcement entity." 
  
 Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Monday it did not take long to decide to release Rice after seeing the video. 
  
 "It's something we saw for the first time today -- it changed things," Harbaugh said. 
  
 Rapoport reported, according to a league source, that teams were informed that any contact between them and Rice won't be approved or take effect until direction from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's office. 
  
 Since Rice's suspension, Goodell announced sweeping changes to the personal conduct policy concerning domestic violence cases. Violations regarding assault, battery, domestic violence or sexual assault that involve physical force "will be subject to a suspension without pay of six games for a first offense." A second offense will result in banishment from the NFL for at least one year. 
  
 Goodell expressed regret about the league's handling of Rice's suspension in a letter to NFL owners on Aug. 28. 
  
 "My disciplinary decision led the public to question our sincerity, our commitment, and whether we understood the toll that domestic violence inflicts on so many families," Goodell wrote. "I take responsibility both for the decision and for ensuring that our actions in the future properly reflect our values. I didn't get it right. Simply put, we have to do better. And we will." 
  
 UPDATE: Rice's wife, Janay, released the following statement Tuesday morning on her Instagram account, per The Baltimore Sun. 
  
 "I woke up this morning feeling like I had a horrible nightmare, feeling like I'm mourning the death of my closest friend," Janay Rice wrote. "But to have to accept the fact that it's reality is a nightmare in itself. No one knows the pain that hte media & unwanted options from the public has caused my family. To make us relive a moment in our lives that we regret every day is a horrible thing. To take something away from the man I love that he has worked his ass of for all his life just to gain ratings is horrific. 
  
 "THIS IS OUR LIFE! What don't you all get. If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you've succeeded on so many levels. Just know we will continue to grow & show the world what real love is! Ravensnation we love you!" |||||
Student:
Hours after video surfaced of Ray Rice punching then-fiancee and current wife Janay Palmer in a casino elevator, the Baltimore Ravens have released the controversial running back, reports the Baltimore Sun. The terminated contract represents a stunning turn of events for Rice, who was suspended by the NFL for just two games in the incident; he served one half of that in Baltimore's loss last night. The league this morning claimed that it hadn't seen the content of the video; the NFL later suspended Rice indefinitely, reports NFL.com.