So, the NFL knew that TMZ had the tape of Ray Rice and chose not to contact them about it. Here is what TMZ had to say about it.
“Before we published the tape, we had been reaching out to them,” Evan Rosenblum, executive producer at TMZ, told Yahoo Sports. “I don’t want to get into specifics, but we did reach out to the NFL before we published the tape and we never heard back from them.”
You can watch the video and Yahoo Sports.