A couple of 911 audiotapes emerge in the case.
Even after 911 calls emerged recently, a civil rights attorney dismissed the self-defense claims of the drunken white man who was caught on video violently assaulting a Black woman last month in Dallas.
WFAA-TV said Monday it exclusively obtained two separate 911 calls. One was made by a witness to the attack and the other by Austin Shuffield, who was arrested for assaulting L’Daijohnique Lee in a March 21 dispute at a parking lot in the Deep Ellum section of the city.
The 911 audiotapes don’t reveal what happened before the calls were made. During the encounter, Shuffield called her a “stupid nigger,” according to Lee’s attorney S. Lee Merritt. She also reportedly placed a 911 call of her own about Shuffield, who was seen on video holding a gun.
In Shuffield’s call, he said, “She is threatening to bring another person out here to shoot up my vehicle. She threatened to mace me and uh, then she swung at me and hit me in the face, so I defended myself after that.”
But even with that call, civil rights attorney Jasmine Crockett wasn’t convinced that Shuffield’s self-defense argument would hold in court.
“We all know that it ended up with Austin delivering some pretty hefty blows to this young lady, and by law, I don’t see where he could legally place his hands on her like that,” Crockett said.
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