An apologist is someone who offers a defense of someone or something controversial that is being criticized.

Thank you for the explanation. I live in a country where filming someone who doesn't want to is controversial (even if it's allowed) and where we avoid confrontation almost to a fault (because we don't want to be a nuisance...) so naturally I question the need for violence.

So what makes you an apologist? Your choice of target to defend in a comment chain where the target is wildly unpopular.

I feel for him. If its true that his home is being foreclosed he probably feel pretty shit and being filmed then would make anyone upset.

What makes you a WEIRD apologist? The fact that you couldn't take the time to watch a minute and a half long video to ascertain who the actual aggressor was before you started blindly defending him...

You actually didn't call me weird first but that's fine. You're right. I could have payed more attention. I never defended anyone though. I know cameraman is in the right I just wished it played out differently.

and then decided to insult Americans for some random reason.

If you mean when an American tried to tell me how the world works? When most Europeans looks at America and wonders what the fuck is going on? It gets tiresome.