Jon Stewart took the NFL to task for their handling of the ongoing domestic violence scandal, or mishandling as he sees it, during Wednesday night’s installment of “The Daily Show.”
What started with the video of Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancee unconscious in an elevator has escalated to include other examples of violence and even alleged child abuse among members of the league. Stewart broke them each down case by case, mentioning the small punishments meted out by the NFL at first.
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In the case of Adrian Peterson, who has indicted on charges of child abuse for hitting his four-year-old son with a switch made from a tree branch, his team first benched him, then reversed that decision and then reversed their reversal, sending him back to the bench.