As beforehand reported, Shahs of Sundown alum Mike Shouhed was arrested in 2022 on costs of home violence towards his former fiancee, Paulina Ben-Cohen.
Now, in the meantime, TMZ has obtained surveillance digicam footage of this alleged assault — and you ought to be warned:
It’s graphic in nature.
Within the footage, we will see Ben-Cohen pulling garments off a rack in her closet … when a person she identifies as is Shouhed comes up behind her… grabs her by the hair… and hurls her to the bottom whereas the garments rack falls on high of her.
This particular person then grabs Ben-Cohen, seemingly smothering her face whereas she’s on the bottom earlier than making an attempt to take her cellphone from her.
Paulina then throws objects to chase the perpetrator out of the walk-in closet.
From right here… the video shifts to a toddler’s playroom room the place the person grabs Ben-Cohen from behind and places his arms round her throat, showing to choke her whereas tossing her across the room.
Paulina responds to the abuse with quite a few slaps and punches to his face and head.
Ben-Cohen says she shared this video beforehand with legislation enforcement.
Her authorized staff used display screen grabs from it as a part of a civil lawsuit towards Shouhed earlier this 12 months over the incident, however this marks the primary time the total footage has been made out there to the general public.
On October 14, a decide dominated that Shouhed should enter one 12 months of a psychological well being diversion program after he was arrested two years in the past and charged with home violence, battery and unlawfully making an attempt to dissuade a sufferer from making a report.
He was taken into custody on the time after a nanny referred to as the police and authorities seen marks on Paulina’s physique.
In her lawsuit, Ben-Cohen alleges this was not the primary time Mike had attacked her, claiming they bought into one other battle in 2021 over her ex allegedly texting one other lady.
She is suing Shouhed for assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery and gender violence.
“This isn’t the total video,” the accused lawyer now says in an announcement.
“The altercation initiated in the lounge. My consumer was making an attempt to cease her from yelling as a result of the children had been asleep. My consumer didn’t need her to smoke inside the home as a result of there’s a toddler with a well being situation and it’s not of their finest curiosity.
“What’s proven within the video is my consumer making an attempt to calm her down and that’s when he goes behind her and tells her to not yell. There’s far more to the video than offered and for this reason my consumer is getting the diversion that he’s.”
