A viral video of a scuffle in the stands at a college football game took a twist when commenters asserted the Black man being escorted out was defending himself.

“So tell me this,” began a top comment by Instagram user A1Soul. “Why is everybody asking the young gentleman to leave and not the guy who started it?”

The video, posted in late October, does not show how the fight began; however, several people who said they attended the game turned up in the comments section of Instagram to corroborate A1Soul’s claim.

The disagreement broke out during the Oct. 25 match between the University of Alabama and the University of South Carolina. The 15-second clip showed a lone Black man wearing a Gamecocks jersey in a sea of riled-up white spectators. Standing one row below him was a stout Alabama

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