“Maybe they weren’t yelling and screaming and acting the fool.”
No, she was just the precipitating factor in why the altercation took place. Words can be weapons also. My guess is I would go ballistic if I were Jewish and some Pali b*tch came up to me and called me a Zionist Pig.
Flight crew doesn’t necessarily know why a fight started, they only know who’s fighting. In the world of sports they have an axiom about that: the action draws the ref’s attention, the reaction draws the penalty. If the flight crew sees you screaming at me and refusing to sit down they’ll kick you off, they don’t know if I did something to deserve it or not, what they know is you’re yelling and screaming and won’t sit down. Going ballistic is the path to letting the other one win, she’s lucky she just got kicked off, technically what she did (disrupt a flight) is a felony. If you want to win you’ve got to keep your cool.