Is It Okay For Victims To Retaliate?

So the video you're about to watch is of a 15 year old victim 'Casey' who had been bullied for a long time. One day, after being repeatedly punched and harassed, he finally had enough and fought back. What I want to address is that, is what he did okay? Did he do the right thing? Any way here's the video :)

Sorry, the footage isn't in great quality but you could see what was going on right? The taller boy standing towards the wall is Casey, and the smaller one is Richard. We see Richard punch and continually hit at Casey who just seems to try and defend himself but not really make any attempt to hit back. But then it gets too much and Casey snaps, grabbing Richard and slamming him face first to the ground. I'll tell you the truth, at first I was rooting for Casey, thinking 'Well Done For Finally Standing Up For Yourself!' but then I realised that Richard could have been severely injured or even ended up with a disability.

Next, I found two interviews of the 'bully' and the 'victim'. They were two different accounts of the situation and contradicted completely.

CASEY

So you can see here that Casey had been through a tough time in his life, his friends had left him, and he'd been left alone to be teased and picked on every day for three years.
You can see from the clips in the report, that people were cheering him on, congratulating him on his 'success'. Do you think this is right?
He also acknowledges the fact that he could have severely hurt Richard but doesn't think he overreacted. What do you think?

     

RICHARD

So here we have the alleged 'bully'. He claims that he himself was a victim of Casey's bullying and that we have only seen one perspective of the story. Do you think this is genuine account? Or do you think he is lying straight to your face? Maybe we have only seen one side but we can never know...

So what do you think?!?

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Neona :)x