this happened?
>> Your Honor, can I start with
how it happened, if that's okay
with you?
>> Judge Judy: Sure.
>> Okay, Your Honor.
On June 13, Antoinette and her
cousins was on the phone.
They was having an argument
because Antoinette and her
sister had slept with --
>> Judge Judy: No, no, no.
We're not going to go back to
talking about anybody else's bad
business.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Correct.
>> Okay, well,
Antoinette had texted me and
cursed me out.
>> Judge Judy: Is that the text
message she sent you?
I'd like to --
>> No, this is the text message
of my reply because I sent it to
her witness and my witness
because we were all hanging
together, so I sent it to them
so it wouldn't be any nonsense,
my reply to her.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
I would like to see
her text to you.
>> I don't have her text
to me.
>> Judge Judy: Do you have it?
>> No.
This happened a year ago,
Your Honor.
>> I have the reply because it
was saved in my witness's phone.
>> Judge Judy: What good is the
reply going to do to me if I
didn't see her text?
>> Okay, 'cause it was just
telling her that I didn't have
anything to do with her family
business -- leave me out of it.
>> Judge Judy: Fine.
Do you remember getting that
text that she didn't have
anything to do with your family
business?
>> Yes, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Okay. So that was
a while ago.
That was in June. And?
>> So, at this time, I was
getting threatening messages.
I told them then and there,
please --
>> Judge Judy: No, not "them."
>> Antoinette and Andrea, her
witness.
>> Judge Judy: These two?
>> Yes, and their other sister,
"Please stop contacting me.
I will call the police."
It stopped after like three,
four days.
So this is June.
Going to November 6, I have not
had any contact with them at
all, and at this time, myself
and my witness and another
female was coming out of the
Orpheum Theatre.
We seen some family members,
close friends that we knew.
We stopped, and we talked
to them.
As we were standing there
talking to them, one of the
other people that was in her
group came up, and I
spoke to her.
And we were all just talking.
At that time --
>> Judge Judy: What was the name
of that person?
>> Her name was Monica.
>> Judge Judy: Was she with you
that evening?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
>> So she came in and came
between us.
>> Judge Judy: Who
"came between us"?
>> Monica.
She just came over, you know --
>> Judge Judy: So far, I'm not
seeing that you had any contact
with her at all.
So far, you were talking to some
of your friends.
Somebody that was with her group
came up and talked to you.
Where was she?
>> I didn't know at this time.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, so you
didn't know.
>> So, I was facing the wall, so
my back was against the crowd.
Next thing I know, personally, I
woke up.
I was laying on the ground.
I have a videotape right here
that --
>> Judge Judy: Just tell me
what happened.
>> Okay. I woke up.
She was over me, straddling
me, grabbing me like this.
I heard her witness,
Andrea Coleman, hollering, "Let
them fight!
Let them fight!"
She was right at my head,
and I seen her --
>> Judge Judy: Who was?
>> Andrea Coleman was at my
head, and I seen her, and I
thought she was attacking me
also.
So I immediately started to
attack, once I kind of realized
what was going on.
I started to fight back.
That's when she bit my hand.
And then a guy --
>> Judge Judy: Who bit your
hand?
>> Antoinette. And that's when a
guy from the crowd came and
grabbed her up off of me.
And I stayed there, dazed,
'cause I'm trying to focus
because I had just woke up, and
I'm trying to figure out --
these people I've known for over
20 years -- my kids and Andrea's
kids are cousins --
I could never believe that they
would attack me just out the
blue.
So I'm standing there.
Then immediately, I just left.
I didn't tell my witness or
anybody what I was doing.
I went next door.
I called the police.
And I have the police statement.
>> Judge Judy: I'd like
to see it.
>> Here you go.
>> Judge Judy: Now, Ms. Coleman,
I would like you to tell me
your version of it, and then I'm
going to see the video.
>> Okay. On November 6, we was
at the comedy show.
And like she said, prior to
that, we got into an altercation
over the phone.
>> Judge Judy: In June.
>> Yes. Back in June.
Barnetta is a busybody.
She like to be involved in
stuff.
>> Judge Judy: I don't...
I didn't let her tell me because
I didn't think that you wanted
10 million people to hear
details of what the argument was
about.
Was I right about that?
>> Yes. You was right.
>> Judge Judy: Right.
So I'm not going to let you tell
me that she was a busybody.
>> Okay. So, then at the
Orpheum, how it's made, they
have a downstairs and an
upstairs.
We were sitting downstairs.
They were sitting upstairs.
So we were coming out.
They were coming down.
So I seen Barnetta, but I
proceeded to walk out of the
Orpheum.
Barnetta decided to follow me
out of the Orpheum.
So by then, all of these people
was coming out
of the Orpheum Theatre.
I get a few push from behind.
I turn around.
Barnetta Anderson is behind me.
So I continue to walk out of the
theater.
But when we got outside of the
theater, we stop, waiting for
everybody else to come out the
theater.
Barnetta stopped right along
with me behind me.
So by then, I'm agitated because
I already been got pushed by
you.
>> Judge Judy: Well, you don't
know who pushed you.
>> Well, I turned around.
Barnetta was behind me.
>> Judge Judy: Okay. Go ahead.
>> So by then, I had
confronted Barnetta, like, you
know, "Why are you following
me?"
At this point, all I remember is
her pushing me back, and then it
was just like an attack.
And we ended up on the floor
because my sister tried to come
and grab me, but when she
grabbed me, she fell back.
I fell back.
Barnetta fell on top of me.
That's why Barnetta has scrapes
to the knees because she fell on
top of me.
I pushed Barnetta off of me.
And when I pushed Barnetta off
of me, that's when the tape
shows me on top of Barnetta.
Barnetta never blacked out.
Barnetta "falled" back.
It was a mutual altercation.
>> Judge Judy: But started