"His testimony makes it seem as if I chased him down like a lion or something like that, whereas it wasn’t a sprint, it was more of a hurried run, because I saw a girl yelling, crying, with [her] eye covered and a guy up in her face, and I’m just like, I would rather be in the middle of those two people instead of [her] taking more of the beating,” he says.

Wasn't it established that Jarred Ha was trying to de-escalate the situation by walking away? By walking away Jarred was already putting distance between him and his attackers so it's not as if Jarred was standing over someone and wailing on them.

The jury chose to believe Jarred's story of self-defense which was backed up by witnesses with no relation to either Jarred or Graham. 

“He wasn’t hitting her back, more like blocking her strikes,” said Colburn, 22, who along with Helfand testified at Ha’s trial. -from seattle times

Great work by the seattle weekly on giving Graham Harper a platform to spout more nonsense.