PROTECTOR: Witness reportedly says French train hero was protecting woman during stabbing. “U.S. airman Spencer Stone, hailed as a hero in the French train attack in August, was protecting a woman when he was stabbed during a street fight outside a California bar, a witness says. Eric Cain, a worker at A&P Liquors, told local TV in Sacramento Thursday that he saw a man and a woman fighting and then saw Stone intervene.”

It’s usually unwise to intervene in such affrays, unless things are looking especially deadly. Which, given that Stone was stabbed, may have been the case here.