re: Man stabs a group of young people as they assault him for looking for his phone in river

Same here. I don’t see what the self defense advocates are seeing. I see a guy get pissed because teenagers are razzing him. He confronts them by pushing them out the tubes. They keep razzing him but are telling him to leave. Another group sees commotion proceeds to tell him to leave. He hits the girl, guys go at him knock him down but don’t keep hitting. He gets up and starts stabbing anyone in arms reach.

At any point before it got physical he could’ve left.