A Black woman in Dallas is suing a local bar, the city and a white man who assaulted her in an attack caught on video in spring 2019.

L’Daijohnique Lee alleges that 32-year-old Austin Shuffield berated her with racial slurs while physically attacking her in an altercation in a parking lot in March 2019, The Dallas Morning News reported. Lee, 26, also contends that the bar where Shuffield worked had served him too many drinks and likely should never have employed him. She further said that the city had wronged her by trying to arrest her following the incident.

During the parking lot assault, cellphone video records Shuffield punching Lee multiple times.

TV news reporter Demetria Obilor tweeted that the woman was charged with felony criminal mischief because she broke Shuffield’s car windows after he assaulted her.

When she went to call the police, the man knocked her cell phone out of her hands and began attacking her. According to The Dallas Morning News, Lee needed to be hospitalized afterward and later revealed that she was so traumatized that she slept at hotels out of fear.

Lee’s attorney, Lee Merritt, said at a news conference following the attack that she had been to the emergency room three times since and had received recommendations to a facial surgeon and a psychiatrist, NBC Dallas Fort Worth reported.

In November 2019, Shuffield was indicted on four total charges, including two felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and obstruction or retaliation. According to The Dallas Morning News, these cases are active and the 32-year-old is free on bond.

Lee’s suit, filed on Monday in Dallas County district court, seeks an unlisted amount of damages. Her lawsuit argues that Shuffield beat, assaulted and left her terrified of the potential for additional harm.

Court documents allege that the man was intoxicated at the time and that the bar High & Tight had allowed him to buy drinks “after it was apparent … that Shuffield was intoxicated to the extent that he presented a clear danger to himself and others.”

Moreso, the lawsuit suggests that the bar management didn’t properly evaluate Shuffield’s background before employing him, citing that his Facebook page posted several “racist and violent comments aimed at minorities.”

Shuffield’s lawyers told The Dallas Morning News that the case has been “reverse engineered to have a different narrative for how everything went down,” expressing that the 26-year-old woman brought up the allegations “after the fact” and failed to communicate the presence of a gun or the man’s racist rant in the initial police report.

However, Lee also accuses city officials in the suit of taking retaliative means against her by seeking her arrest after public outcry regarding the case exposed the Dallas Police Department’s actions.

Shuffield’s lawyer said that the legal measure against his client was unexpected and that they aim to file a counterclaim and request Lee’s deposition.

“I did not think that she would have the audacity to put this in writing and open herself up to a counterclaim and a deposition, which is going to happen pretty quickly if we have any say in it,” lawyer Scott Palmer said.

Shuffield was fired from his role at the bar shortly after the video went public, according to NBC.

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