The morning after the incident, chief legal analyst Aron Solomon of Esquire Digital, wrote "It is clear that what happened at the Oscars was an assault under the California statutory definition". Tarek Fatah wrote in The Toronto Sun, "Of the two men in the discussion, only one of them broke the law at the Oscars and got away with it because the LAPD stood back and let it happen... Only when Will Smith is charged with assault and battery will it show that justice is blind".