Attacking a woman for recording him with a cell phone video is not “self-defense”.
He is not responsible for her behavior. He is responsible for his own. His own behavior was criminal and reprehensible.
This is a boy who kicked in a door after his girlfriend locked herself in the bathroom to disengage from the fight. That is not the mindset of a man defending himself.
This is a boy who grabbed his girlfriend by the leg with intent to pull her off the bed because she was recording him on a cell phone video. (A wise man would be on his *best* behavior in such circumstances; not his *worst*).
This is a boy who beat his girlfriend before:
“The girlfriend said that she had photographs of her injuries from past abuse and beatings.”
This is not a man who was attacked by a crazy, abusive girlfriend.
This is a boy whom no conservative man should defend, because conservatives respect women. Liberals despise them.
“This is not a man who was attacked by a crazy, abusive girlfriend.”
Bull.
The article is confusing as the sequence of events, but it looks like she started the actual violence during this particular incident when she threw something and hit him with it. I guess you think he should have just stood there and taken it - cowering like a dog. How many shots does she get?
This is a classic scenario. The woman starts the violence using a weapon, provokes a response, and then lays the responsibility entirely on the man. Later, her injuries matter, his do not.
If he’d injured her before, why was she still in the house? That’s a second classic scenario. She couldn’t have been that scared of him.