no matter what anyone here has said, there is never any reason to attack a weaker person than you, especially if you are male and the other is female, and leave her looking the way Rhianna did unless she had a gun to your head and you had one shot at survival. yes she may have goaded him and yes she may have hit him, but there are multiple other more mature and non-violent options to stopping that. If the situation was so bad that Brown had to hit her, he should never have beaten her up to the extent that she was. Chris knows he was wrong and he has said it; he's blaming it all on his daddy issues now. So please all, stop trying to defend him. I understand it couldn't have been unprovoked and i agree that Rhianna must have had something to do with it, but Brown should never have resorted to the level of violence that he had.