PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The State of Arizona is facing a potential $100,000 lawsuit over the vicious attack of an Arizona Department of Child Safety employee.

It was livestreamed on social media last year , and the claim isn’t coming from the suspect or the person he attacked.

Instead, the plaintiff, not employed by DCS, filed the legal document, which precedes a lawsuit. Her attorney claims she suffered damages, including injury and anxiety, after being a witness to the horrific attack.

This disturbing moment showing a father putting a DCS employee in a chokehold until he passed out was streamed live on social media in November.

The plaintiff claims she was in the lobby the moment 32-year-old De’andre Terrell Johnson assaulted the DCS caseworker.

“She was one of the people that witnessed it, one of the people that alerted the police to it,” said Briggs.

According to the notice, at one point, Johnson walked over to the witness in an aggressive manner, intimidating her.

“He wanted to kill that man. If they’re going to livestream, they obviously have no regard for rules for order for anything like that,” said Briggs. “So I think for my client it’s a lot of anxiety and fear and the trauma response of just seeing something like that.”

The witness is asking for thousands in damages that Briggs claims will go toward treatment.

“There may not be physical injuries like there would be from a car accident where there’s medical bills of that nature. There’s trauma counseling, there’s, you know, whatever recommended treatment comes from that counseling,” she said.

The notice was filed in December. Briggs claimed that there’s been no response from the state.

“I’m hopeful that maybe some sort of reform can come,” she said.

“If it’s having this level of an impact on other people, I cannot imagine the state of things for the workers.”

Briggs took this case on because of her experience as a former department employee.

“My first job was actually working as a case manager at CPS at the time and I worked in the South Mountain office,” she said.

If the state doesn’t respond, they plan to file suit.

“These are problems that span decades, and they’re really we re branded. Made a new agency name, but we didn’t change anything,” she explained.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office declined to comment over the legal developments.

The suspect is still facing three felonies and other charges, including an attempt to commit first-degree murder and aggravated assault.

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