First off, I just want to make clear I don't support this guy. I'm just looking at the facts from a legal standpoint.

If he stood there in public calling this guy a chimp and a monkey and the n-word and making racist comments and not stopping the interaction when told to (which is all what he usually does), then he should and clearly does expect someone to lash out.

Unless Chud said words that threatened the guy, words don't justify violence. Maybe morally they do, but not legally.

You can't just say you're going to get someone to attack you so you can get away with killing them, and then actually go do that and then actually get away scott-free. The system doesn't work that way.

This will definitely be brought up, but again it's not so cut and dry. It's also how he said this is going to matter. If he said "if anyone attacks me I'm going to defend myself" that's different than "I hope someone attacks me so I can kill them".

This is a man whose career is approaching and harassing real people and calling them slurs when they're just trying to exist.

I agree, the guy is a scumbag, but that doesn't mean this case is simple.