ESPN Suspends Stephen A. Smith, After ‘Domestic Violence’ Remarks

week. He will return to ESPN next Wednesday.

As previously reported, Smith is under fire for controversial comments that he made on ESPN’s First Take.

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Comments centered around domestic violence and were in reference to the NFL’s decision to suspend Baltimore Ravens’ running back Ray Rice for two games following charges of assaulting his then fiancée, now wife, a few months ago.

On Friday, he apologized, with the clip below. 

Here are Smith’s initial comments.

 

Smith has yet to respond since today’s announcement. Do you agree with ESPN’s suspension?

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There are 8 comments for this article
  1. Mika at 5:55 pm

    Yes, I agree with the suspension. I am so tired of people not taking violence against women, particularly black women seriously. Sadly, you have a lot of women out there that agree with him also.

  2. K at 7:40 pm

    I respectfully disagree with you Mika. While I feel as if ‘provoke’ was the wrong word and it angered people because there are so many instances of unprovoked domestic violence and irrational occurances of the act from men, I believe it was his intention on telling women to be responsible if they fall into the category of being abusive to the men in the relationship. The man should still not hit back but if a woman cares about her safety why would she put herself in harms way potentally. Again, this is a conditional statement because it purely depends on circumstance. I hope that both genders take this issue more seriously. Women need to learn to leave and men need to be punished.

  3. kim at 9:22 pm

    I don’t agree.He is allowed to have an opinion.I watch First take often.Steven A is very very loud and animated.Their our those that don’t like the way he expresses himself.I think it was a way to do something that they’ve wanted to do for awhile.They picked a hot button issue to react to.Steven A is payed to talk and debate about issues involving the sports world.If that’s the case Wendy Williams should’ve been suspended from her network.

  4. nicky at 10:02 pm

    i normally not reply but this is a very controversial subject. I am a black woman with 2 boys and one daughter so I am by no means saying its ever ok for men to hit, push shove women. However I have witnessed first hand women provoking men by hitting, pushing, slapping and even banging men. When the man attempts to walk away the women will go after them to continue. So in my opinion he has the right to hit her back. Not to necessarily hurt her but to stop her. There are women out there that think its ok to hit men and no consequences will come of it.

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