We know two things without ambiguity:
1) She left the scene. This means she had put herself out of the danger zone.
2) She returned to the danger zone with her boyfriend, thus putting both of them into danger.
Looking at (2), what rational reason did she have for returning to the danger zone with her boyfriend? Even if, upon hearing of the incident, the BF was insistent upon going, what reason did SHE have for returning? If the girl is on the scene, it makes it harder for the guy to retreat, because he has to shield HER retreat, and she is not likely to be faster than a group of teenage boys.
Her presence eliminated any opportunity for HIM to retreat safely, and divided his attention. I speak from personal experience, from an incident where I was with a girl and this crazy guy started attacking us -- the girl was just standing there and not running, so my attention was divided between her and the attacker, which could have ended badly.
In summary, the best spin you can put on this, is that this woman behaved stupidly.
Not interested in spinning it. Facts would be nice. When I read “She returned to the scene with her boyfriend” I dcon’t assume she had the ability to force him to go. Maybe he went to look and she went to show him etc. I am not saying there aren’t heartless women who want men to fight or stupid women who stand there with their hands in their pockets but spin or no spin - “she returned to the scene with her boyfriend” doesn’t say enough. The shock value of this story is the sickening animal like behavior of these ‘children’ and it’s possible that a human could not anticipate a crowd of kids beating a man with skateboards for no reason. I don’t know what the visibility was and don’t know what the yutes looked like and I don’t know if they thought to stay back and possibly call it in and were observed or had any chance of exiting without being seen. I’ll give the MSN the benefit of the doubt on ‘she returned with her boyfriend” (i.e., that both drew nearer the area where the boys were intentionally) but the attitude of “Just like a woman - making her boyfriend fight for her” is just too much extrapolation and what strikes me is the attitude that women are always making men fight gangs for them.