Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said he felt like he was on “the same page” with Norman Police in determining the charge.

“When you are looking at that, you start saying, ‘Well, OK, who's the initial aggressor? Who basically started the physical aspect of the confrontation?’” Mashburn said. “In this particular case, I felt like this statute more fit what happened because now we don’t have to talk about who the initial aggressor was. Was there gross injury? And there was. And was that against public morals? And I believe that anytime you punch a girl with that much force, even when she had hit you first, that it would be against public morals.”

Mashburn said the video was critical to the decision to charge.

“No one there — no one there — remembered it exactly as it happened,” Mashburn said. “And that’s typical. In many cases that we have, if you have 10 witnesses, they all have 10 different versions because their vantage point is different and all that. It went a long way to cut through that and say, ‘I know they didn’t see that because that obviously didn’t happen,’ and you’re able to weed through what happened.”