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

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103. if you take a swing at me

there are many ways to "defend".

I can block, I can duck, I can otherwise move out of the way.

If I, instead, swing back, then I have switched from defense to counter-attack. You could say I am counter-attacking IN defense, but clearly I have gone beyond defense.

Pretty clearly the force was not the same. The punches thrown by the first guy were not having very much effect. The blind guy was able to partially deflect them and also keep his opponent at a distance with his arms.

The second attacker scored at least a TKO.

Again, the logic of violence is. The person attacking feels justified in attacking somebody.

Person A felt justified in punching a blind guy.
Person B felt justified in blind-siding person A.

There appears to have been a fairly large strength disparity between Person B and Person A, considering he laid him out with one punch. Person B was no more able to defend themselves than the blind kid was. Apparently even less so.

Is it okay then, for large people to beat up on small people under SOME circumstances? Even to knock them out?

A strike to the arm would have stopped the action, and so would a punch to the gut or a shove.

No, he went way over the top, and I agree with the suspension. He acted no to defend the blind kid, but primarily to punish the other kid who was attacking him.