Updated at 5 p.m. Friday: Revised to include additional details.

A Dallas bartender is suspected of assaulting a woman during an argument in Deep Ellum after he told her to move her vehicle, police said.

Austin Shuffield

Austin Shuffield, 30, has been charged with assault causing bodily injury and interference with an emergency call, according to jail records.

The unidentified 24-year-old woman has hired civil rights attorney Lee Merritt. He issued a statement Friday saying Shuffield should face felony assault and hate-crime charges because he launched into a racist diatribe before the attack.

"Our office is speaking with the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney's office to ensure all appropriate charges are pursued including felony assault, firearm and hate-crime related charges," Merritt said in a written statement.

At a news conference Friday, Next Generation Action Network founder Dominique Alexander called for a protest Saturday in Deep Ellum if Shuffield does not get charged with a hate crime or aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

"We are demanding that District Attorney John Creuzot charges Mr. Shuffield with a hate crime and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon," Alexander said. "Those are both felonies. Those charges are adequate with what we saw."

Kim Leach, a spokeswoman for the DA's office, said they are looking into it and have requested additional information from the Police Department.

Shuffield was booked into the Dallas County Jail on Thursday morning. He posted a $2,000 bond and was released about 2 a.m. Friday.

He could not be reached for comment Friday morning but told police he was acting in self-defense. It was unclear whether he has an attorney.

Officers were called about 4:30 a.m. Thursday to the 2800 block of Elm Street, near North Crowdus Street, where the woman told police that she had been driving the wrong way down the street and had stopped.

She said Shuffield got out of his truck to ask her to move out of his way because she was blocking the parking lot exit, police said.

The woman moved her vehicle into the parking lot, and Shuffield got out of his. He approached her and attempted to take pictures of the woman's license plates, according to the warrant.

The two then began to argue, police said. The argument turned physical and Shuffield reportedly slapped the woman's phone out of her hand as she was trying to call 911. Shuffield told a police officer that he was acting in self-defense after the woman started hitting him, the arrest warrant states.

A witness told police that the woman hit him after he knocked her cellphone away, according to the arrest warrant. The witness said Shuffield then struck the woman with a closed fist multiple times.

Shuffield told police he hit the woman in self-defense after she threatened to pepper-spray him and broke the back windshield of his pickup with a jump box, a device used to jump-start a car.

Police said they could smell alcohol while speaking to Shuffield. A charge of public intoxication listed on the warrant did not appear in jail records.

Police found a .45-caliber handgun and a knife when they searched Shuffield's vehicle, according to the affidavit.

Video of the incident obtained by KTVT-TV (Channel 11) shows a man holding what appears to be a gun as he talks to the woman. The man knocks the phone out of her hand and she hits him in the face.

The man is then seen punching the woman at least five times in what appears to be her face or upper body.

Warning: The following video contains graphic content.

A video shot by a witness was shown to police, according to the arrest warrant, which led them to make the arrest. It is unclear if it is the same video that was sent to some local media.

Merritt, in his statement, said the woman remains hospitalized and is recovering from injuries that include possible post-concussion syndrome and cranial swelling.

Braxton Martin, the owner of High and Tight Barbershop about a block from where the assault occurred, told KTVT-TV that Shuffield worked there as a bartender. What happened in the video was "horrific," he said.

Shuffield has since been fired.

"We have finally [spoken] with police representatives and have terminated this employee," High and Tight said Thursday on Facebook. "We do not stand behind the actions that took place and hope that the full weight of the law comes down on this incident."

Staff writer Raegan Scharfetter contributed to this report.