i've made it 49 years without physically assaulting someone, so i'm not too worried about it going too far. and i don't really find myself in situations like that very much if at all.
Similar here. Just saying, if the boyfriend had walked up and tried to de-escalate this instead of taking a verbal situation and making it physical, we likely wouldn't have this thread. Lots of fault to go around here - all three adults in the video did something stupid and if any one of them had handled the situation in a more mature manner, this would have been another non-story.
that being said, i just don't think it is that cut and dried.
Keep in mind I've not said it's cut and dried - I'm simply saying that physically assaulting someone over their words is a leap - they're simply not equivalent. I'll need more data before I can determine what I believe to be the truth of the situation.
I mean, if there's any instances where verbal assault can rightfully lead to physical violence then we need know what, if anything, the boyfriend said to the man as / after he shoved him to the ground. If he threatened
"I'm going to kill you" as he shoved him, then that might change things.