High school teen who defended a blind classmate who was being beaten by a bully is SUSPENDED

[Glassunion]

88. Your logic does not follow...

First of all, a counter-attack is defined (Oxford Dictionary) as an attack made in response. A defense (again Oxford) is defined as the action of defending from or resisting attack.

A counter attack as defined is something that is done after the fact, and a defense is something that is done during the fact. In the video, you can clearly see the kid getting laid out as he was winding up for another punch. He was in the process of actively attacking the visually impaired kid, when that blow was landed by the third kid, thus stopping the attack. This is a textbook example of a successful defense.

As far as the disparities... The kid who laid out the attacker, was meeting force with the exact same force. There was no escalation of force used in the defense. Meaning, he defended the kid, using the exact same force (punching), that was was being used on the visually impaired kid. Ironically the attacker was blind sided by a punch, while he was literally blind siding his victim.

P.S. Go Jets... I'm going to the game this weekend against the Eagles.