So, I can't help but look back at this situation and compare it to the whole Ray Rice fiasco in the way that people took two different approaches with their judgment. In Ray Rice's case, we only know as much context as the camera allows us. We don't know what happened off camera and though it wouldn't justify a beating, people found a way to do it in Solange & Jay-Z's case. I recall a lot of women on social media and several sites implying that Jay had done something that required Beyonce to stick up for her sister and this attack was the result.
I recall "It's probably because Jay-Z cheated and they're getting a divorce" and "Jay probably said something really rude to trigger Solange" being used as rationale.
If you mention that Janay Rice chose to stay, it becomes "victim-blaming" and there's no rationale used to say, "We don't know what was going on with them or what caused Ray to spit in her face before getting on the elevator."
We just go with what we see, which is fine, but it's interesting that we have two similar (DEFINITELY not identical instances with different approaches to how we view the victim. Why isn't it either victim-blaming for everyone or "off with their heads/this person is a piece of shyt" for everyone?