Deaconblue
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I agree with Doggus completely. The following would be a no culpability sequence: (1) Szabo hits car hard; (2) Jones gets out to see if there is damage and confronts Szabo; (3) Szabo is belligerent and yells; charges or takes a swing: (4) Jones counters with a punch that knocks Szabo off his feet: (5) Jones does what he can to help Szabo recover
This sequence would be not guilty of misdemeanor 3rd degree assault. Szabo initiated the entire scenario. An underlying assumption in much of the reporting has been that Szabo was tapping on car windows looking for an Uber, lightly enough that there is no possibility he would damage a car, so there would be no reason for Jones to leave his vehicle. Other reporting had said he created a ruckus, which means he would have hit cars hard enough that a driver would suspect damage and want to get out. We only know outcomes, not details.
The New York Post story reports that Szabo caused enough ruckus for at least one of the area residents to come outside to see what was going on. Supposedly this resident got hit by Szabo for questioning Szabo's actions and noise making.