Greg Hardy is lucky because he’s already been punished — so unless the Cowboys are going to release him and eat some of his salary, he’ll be fine.
With that said, these pictures of Hardy’s victim from that night he assaulted her are brutal.
Deadspin has published a gallery of photos of Nicole Holder, showing her injuries from the incident in May 2014. There are a number of large bruises on her back, along with injuries to her arms and legs and feet.
Barefoot and frightened, Nicole Holder walked as fast as she could through the darkness, and the moment she saw the cops she ran. She headed west on Fifth Street toward North Church, away from the Charlotte., N.C., apartment of Greg Hardy, a star defensive end then with the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. Minutes earlier he had, she said, thrown her against a tile bathtub wall, tossed her on a futon covered in assault rifles, and choked her until she told him to “kill me so I don’t have to.”
Officer Jeffrey Kendrick ran after her, ordering her to stop. Holder turned and walked toward him, and Kendrick asked her why she was crying.
“It doesn’t matter,” she told him. “Nothing is going to happen to him anyways.”
Hardy was initially suspended 10 games by the league for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.
Hardy had his suspension reduced to four games.
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