Quote:There's no video of the Peterson incident. Also, AP is just old school when it comes to whippin. It isn't right how severely he did it, but it is different. Many of us grew up getting whipper to where it left visible marks. We didn't end up in surgery for 8 hours and nobody cared. The standard has changed and AP is behind the times. 

There were pictures of the aftermath. I think anyone can envision how a hulking AD and a small child encounter that ends with those wounds would appear on video. Hell it would probably look worse since it was repeatedly beating of the defenseless child with a weapon and not just a one punch and run reaction.

 

I was also told there were zero excuses to hit a skinny 110 lb blonde woman, zero. That should also apply to a 40 lb child I would think.

 

I'm just playing devil's advocate, but I can't fathom how one person would try to make an excuse for one while also taking a hard line against the other. Either human beings deserve another chance after inflicting severe physical harm to a far smaller and helpless person or they don't. 

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