It appears the only violence that took place during this incident was to the cars.
Ryan Anderson is accused of kicking a woman’s vehicle during an argument at an off-campus residence late Monday night, Tuscaloosa Police spokesman Sgt. Brent Blankley stated in a written release. The woman had keyed and thrown coins at Anderson’s vehicle, Blankley said.
TPD officers were called to the residence in the 1300 block of 17th Avenue East at 11:28 p.m., according to the release. They noted damage to both vehicles and found probable cause to charge Anderson and Sierra Patterson, both 20, with third-degree domestic violence/criminal mischief. The domestic violence charge indicates that the two are, or were, involved in a dating relationship.
Neither of the two exhibited signs of physical injury, Blankley said.
I don’t know if they need to be arrested for this. No one physically hit anyone, it seems to me like a regular argument that got out of hand when she keyed his car (probably caught him cheating). In the end as the man who has much more to lose, Anderson has to walk away or call the police for her keying his car so she is only one arrested.