I usually am thankful for the NY Post in the cesspool of worthless NY City media but I do not think they should ever say “unprovoked” because it implies some victims deserve to be bloodied and battered because they knew the offender or had fought back.
They try to push that in the tragic beating of Kaylee Gain.
Nothing justifies an argument ending with bashing a young woman’s skull on pavement and causing her to be in intensive care and apparently brain damaged. Part of her skull has been removed to allow lowering the pressure on her brain.
” but I do not think they should ever say “unprovoked” because it implies some victims deserve to be bloodied and battered because they knew the offender or had fought back.”
Wrong.
un·pro·voked
[ˌənprəˈvōkt]
adjective
(of an attack, or a display of aggression or emotion) not caused by anything done or said: