Three years ago, Chris Brown made headlines when he brutally beat his then-girlfriend Rhianna, putting her in the hospital and forcing both to cancel their scheduled Grammy performances. Brown was invited back for this year’s awards show, and performed twice to great acclaim. Since Sunday’s event, many of Brown’s female fans – aka members of “Team Breezy” – have expressed their support by tweeting that they would let him beat them up. Jacquelyn Campbell is the Anna D’wolf endowed chair and professor in the School of Nursing at John’s Hopkins.
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