content: He deserved it  Yeah...no. The woman that maced him didn't even have a sign. Further, she tapped him on the shoulder to make sure it got into his face, little more than calling someone's name before sucker-punching them. She was never in any real danger, much less enough danger to escalate the use-of-force from "touching someone" as you put it, to an armed assault with a non-lethal weapon. Self-defense claims require answering like force with like, the moment you escalate the use-of-force, you go from 'defender' to attacker. It's the same reason you can't pull out a Desert Eagle when someone sucker punches you and blow them away.