What, he's going to set his three year old daughter on the ground and start throwing down with some punk in a crowd of dozens of his bile-spitting friends?
That's not how you'd behave, I trust if you were thrust into that real-world drama. "Watching Daddy get beaten and arrested" isn't the way you'd want to cap this little girl and her 11 year old brother's terrible day. Geez, have a little empathy.
That's not thinking much about he safety of his daughter now is it?