Sure, you can beat anyone for any reason that you want.
After all it’s a free country.
That’s the lesson of this story.
The fun part of this tragedy is hearing the media tell their idiots that pursuing someone and asking them a question is just grounds for a beating.
When that happens to one of them (they do it all the time) I’ll so enjoy hearing the reporter say he lay there and took it because he deserved it.
Just as long as they are the same race as you.