Watch New Video of Ray Rice and Janay Palmer Kissing after Elevator Assault Surfaces

ABC News has obtained a never-before-seen surveillance footage that shows Ray Rice and his then fiancee Janay Palmer kissing in the same Atlantic City elevator he had earlier on attacked her in. The new video was released yesterday Friday and details the aftermath following the domestic violence incident.

The nearly 45 minutes of never-before-seen footage shows a clearly distraught Janay Palmer, Rice’s then-fiancee and now wife, unwilling to talk to him after the NFL star had punched her in the face, knocked her unconscious, and dragged her out of an elevator on Feb. 15 at the now-closed Revel casino.

Palmer is seen physically pushing Rice away from her when he approached her immediately after the
incident. Palmer was then protected by hotel security guards as Rice attempted to move closer. The video then shows Palmer going through something of an emotional evolution in the middle of the night. Almost immediately after the assault, she appears angry. Soon after, Palmer begins to cry. And by the time she and Rice are both escorted into an elevator -- handcuffed -- she kisses and nuzzles the one-time NFL star.

Both Rice and Palmer were arrested that night and charged with one count of assault each. The charge against Palmer was later dropped for “insufficient evidence,” while the charge against Rice was upgraded to aggravated assault. Immediately the video of the assault appeared online, the Ravens cut Rice and the NFL suspended him indefinitely while Janay Rice became a face of domestic violence.

Rice and his attorney Peter Ginsberg went to court to try and prevent ABC News from obtaining the new recording, but lost. On Friday, Ginsberg voiced his dismay that the video was made public.

“This is a time of healing and he, quite naturally, doesn’t want another media showing of what must have been the worst event of his life,” he said. “What the media ought to be focusing on is the issue of domestic violence.

Palmer recently opened up in interviews where she defended her husband, saying he is a human who made a mistake that he'd never made before and won't make again.

 “I got arrested [for assault], too, so I did something wrong, too. Everybody makes mistakes. After this whole situation, you would think that we lived in a country full of people who never made a mistake." 

Check out the new footage below and tell us what you think.