FACT: She provoked him, plain and simple. Stop using her gender as a crutch to justify her violent behavior.
Figures you'd say this. Did you see how he unloaded on her right in the face? That was violent. Comparable to kicking a Pekingese across a room.
And he was smiling when he did it. He wasn't surprised, or scared. He was having fun.
She was stumbling and stunned. He looked like he near knocked her out.