First of all, **** you. I've never hit a woman. Shit, I haven't even been in a bar since the 90s. I don't drink.

He grabbed her arm because she was making a fist. She then punches him.

How the **** do you figure I'm defending him?

He still could've walked away after she slugged him but his ego wouldn't let him. How's his ego now?

Balling a fist and actually laying your hands on someone are two different things. One is assault, the other isn't. So, no she should not be charged with assault.

Edit: and excuse me, but you are reacting as if you have done the same thing or as though he was justified in punching a woman in the face with a rock hard fist.

He could have done a lot of things other than knock the **** out of here. Total bitch move.

LOL That was an obvious joke.

You might want to look up the legal definition of assault.

By grabbing her arm, it looks like he's trying to keep her from hitting him. Then she hits him.

She punched him first. How is that not assault?

On the positive side he just moved up the Cowboys draft board.

Anytime you put your hands on someone and its unwanted... Its assault..

In this case, I think it would be both assault AND battery. You can assault someone without physical contact, but there has to be contact for it to be battery. But, I could be wrong. I looked this up a long time ago.

Florida State dismissed quarterback De’Andre Johnson yesterday after video from a Tallahassee bar showed why he was arrested in June for battery. Johnson’s lawyer Jose Baez is now attempting to do damage control, calling the punch an “experience” and also claiming that the woman used a racial slur towards Johnson.

Baez told NBC News that the woman used “racial epithets” when Johnson bumped into her, and that the quarterback was trying to calm the situation. More lawyer talk follows:

“It wasn’t until she struck him twice that he reacted,” Baez said. “But he is very...He is very regretful that he didn’t turn around and walk away immediately.”

“He makes no excuses for what happened,” he added.

Baez called Johnson’s dismissal from the football team “unfortunate” and said his client is now volunteering at a shelter for battered women.

“All he wants to do is learn from this experience and move on and get an education,” Baez said. “We certainly don’t want him to pay for the rest of his life for an incident that occurred in a bar.”

She was making a fist.
Looks like self-defense to me.

I'm no lawyer, what do I know?

It was assault. That doesn't change a thing. If you are any kind of a man, you don't put your hands on a woman. It doesn't matter if she is drunk or slapped you or anything else.

Can a person just walk away?

Looks like assault by both parties to me...