NY Times · May 26, 2015
Bears Release Ex-49er Ray McDonald After Arrest in California
Photo Ray McDonald with San Francisco. He was arrested Monday on a domestic violence charge unrelated to a 2014 arrest. Credit Ed Szczepanski/USA Today Sports, via Reuters The Chicago Bears released defensive lineman Ray McDonald after he was arrested Monday in California on a domestic violence charge, the latest in a string of run-ins that have tested the boundaries of the N.F.L.’s tougher personal conduct policy.
McDonald’s release came nine months after he was arrested in a separate domestic violence case and just two months after the Bears signed him to an incentive-laden free-agent contract.
