"I understand that," he agrees. "There was a woman I greatly admired and had fondness for. And when her boyfriend was leaving bruises on her, I stepped in, told him he had to stop. And he publicly shamed me to make me back off. That I 'didn't understand how things are with a woman like her'."

But death doesn't stick here, so that's not a solution this time.

"What was it that you did that they're all up in arms about?"