09-09-2014, 08:24 AM
(09-09-2014, 08:13 AM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: I've watched the video several times and I don't see her slap him in the face, Cutz. She swats at him on the way into the elevator when he spits on her.She connects on the first "swat" with a backhand slap to his cheek. If you slow the vid down in those first seconds it's pretty visible.
He didn't freak out and didn't attempt to her help her when she dropped and was unconscious at his feet, that's a fact.
I've read other comments by people who minimize what he did and see her as equally culpable, like she somehow invited him to beat, punch, pound (whatever you wanna call it), as you do.
He does seem decidedly calm the entire altercation. That's pretty fucked up. No sympathy or love from him whatsoever. Just cool animosity.
I don't minimize what he did by blaming her. He was absolutely wrong and deserves punishment. I do see her as culpable, tho not equally so. She didn't strike him hard enough to knock him out, and she doesn't 'deserve' to get hit just because she hit him. I just see both of them as wrong.