I'm not advocating either party's actions. But telling the person who didn't even incite the incident to walk away and be the better person while giving the grown ass instigator who actually laid hands on another adult a free pass is so ugh.
Let's just drop it. This ain't really the place for this convo, and I'm still new here. We can agree to disagree.
(Also, I guess I missed the part where they'd had some incident prior to walking in)
Read the article. That was his defense too. That her actions/words instigated it. We have no idea what happened outside completely, but dude didn't need to follow her in and continue escalating the situation.
No one is giving anyone a pass except you saying his response was understandable when it clearly wasn't.