Chris is right calling out the hypocrisy but he's the wrong messenger, considering he had violent incidents with women after Rihanna...
Ultimately it's not anyone's place to "forgive" Breezy or not other than the women involved with him. Rihanna did and I'm sure has moved on...
There were two women I had violent encounters with, an ex when I was 22 (we had two incidents in about a 5 month stretch), and my oldest kids' mother (we had three incidents from the time I was 27 to 30)...
All the minutiae aside, as men we have to handle situations with women responsibly. If we don't, that's on us, as rarely are these situations where we "have to" put our hands on them even if they attack first. I do think that girls have to be taught that putting their hands on men, or provoking them otherwise, isn't cool either, but that doesn't give us a pass to whip on them if they do. It just means girls should be taught that every boy/man isn't raised with this "don't hit girls" ideal and in life in general you'll get the energy you put out, and it isnt okay to poke muhfukkas and expect no repercussions in general...
I've been with more than two women in my life, but there are people who would hear about these 5 incidents with two women, and label me a woman beater. Which is fine. Everyone has an opinion, people don't care for details, it's all good. That first ex, we became friends about a half-year after our relationship ended, and spoke on an annual basis on some catch up shyt until she got married two years ago...
My kids' mom, it was contentious for a stretch but within a year and a half after we ended we started getting more cordial. She's a woman who lacks accountability so she still brings it up once or twice a year but in general both these women know their role in how our relationships played out, and both "forgave" me...
More importantly though, I forgave myself, grew myself. Breezy gotta know that the court of public opinion is often harsher than the participants in these events, so ain't no point fighting against that. Just grow as a man and have no repeat incidents, right message, wrong messenger!