Reminds me of an incident my daughter had in HS, See was according to her story, and witnesses, had another girl unprovoked grab her hair and started punching her in the face. My daughter instinctively tried to separate from her attacker, which as it turns out, when somebody has a fist full of your hair, its difficult to achieve. Her next response was to simply duck and scream. The screams were heard nearly across the entire school. An official school guard out of sight ran to the screaming and stopped the attack. BOTH girls were suspended because official school board policy, because THEY were fighting, and guard saw little of the actual attack, and nobody had the gumption to look further into the matter.

Told my daughter, next time, pull a weapon to protect yourself, no sense in fighting a fair fight if you are guilty no matter what the facts.