Given the quick, violent reaction, I suspect the blond was trying to create just that situation - make the guy put up a hand to push him away and then there is an excuse for assault. The police are fucking dupes for letting it get that far.
Piece on this behaviour by James Lindsay the other day - although in this instance the perpetrator seems to have blown it. The point is to get the person you're confronting to snap, not to suddenly snap yourself...
https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/mid-level-violence/
A key tactic in the Woke Marxist activism toolbox is an unconventional warfare technique known as “mid-level violence,” or, in other words, strategic provocation. In this strategy, agitators will engage in behavior that, if accepted, moves one of their mass-line agendas along or that, if resisted, provokes a reaction that can be framed as an unjust overreaction (“wound collecting” or “crybullying”). They are masters at this. In fact, it’s Antifa’s bread-and-butter tactic, and its goal is always to put its target into a dilemma of giving in and demoralizing themselves or reacting and thus being portrayed as having overreacted. Join host James Lindsay in this episode of New Discourses Bullets as he explains how this malicious tactic works.
The problem is that the trans loonies are to a large extent out of control - their narcissistic rage has overtaken their strategic thinking, so what you're seeing is the tattered remains of once-smart tactics. (See also the rather frayed-looking Dentons advice to push through reforms behind the scenes.)