Deadspin has released disturbing photos of Greg Hardy’s ex-girlfriend, Nicole Holder, taken after Holder accused Hardy of beating her up last year. Ostensibly, this “proves” that Hardy got away with a sickening crime. As Deadspin writes, in comparing Hardy to fellow abuser Ray Rice:
Hardy hasn’t become a pariah. That’s partly because he’s more valuable on the field, but also because of the perception that nobody knows what really happened that night.
There are two issues with this:
1. We do know what happened that night.