"Chahal's penthouse apartment had a state-of-the-art video surveillance system that on Aug. 5, 2013, filmed Chahal hitting and kicking his girlfriend 117 times..."
Is that good enough for you, or do you need to come up with some more "or..."s? He was recorded beating the hell out of a woman, why on earth are you coming up with hypothetical excuses for him?
I probably shouldn't be surprised that even with video evidence of beatings that some people will still say "we can't be sure, maybe she asked to be beaten".
Of course we must be sure before to put one human in jail, this means that we need to be as cold as we can, study each case separately instead to automatically link all with the discourse of the woman opression around the history, and discard all the other options. Being too much emotional and bursting in revenge's flames do not helps to find the truth in this kind of cases.
A private video surveillance system is good enough for me, yes. It explain a lot of things that would be strange otherwise.
> he was filmed hitting and kicking his girlfriend 117 times
Some parts of the history sound disonant to me. There was a camera in the room? Why? Who was recording the scene and, If a third people, why he/she keep recording instead to stop and try to help her? Why she do not just walked away and left the room at the second hit? Standing 117 hits without leaving the narrow camera angle is anomalous.
Without a minimum context atached to the video history we can't really know if the man is just a psycho, or is another case of steroids fury, or drugs, or somebody tending a trap (unprobable, but not impossible) to suck as many money as possible from a millionaire, or...