A Florida transgender woman and her partner were assaulted on a Miami street Sunday night while walking to work. Video footage shows the confrontation.

Felyz Rodriguez and Davin Lopez told South Florida NBC affiliate WTVJ that women in a passing car yelled at them for walking in the road. Lopez said he gestured toward the car, its driver turned around, and the confrontation became physical.

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“It was all unprovoked. We were just walking,” Rodriguez, who is trans, told WTVJ.

Lopez said one of the women pepper-sprayed him. Rodriguez said the driver pulled her hair. Video of the incident shows the confrontation continuing beside the car.

The video shows that the driver then reversed the car, causing her to fall to the ground.

“I’m trying my best not to put my hands on anybody in the situation,” Rodriguez said. “Instead of trying to make it worse, I’m trying to de-escalate it.”

First responders arrived on the scene, but the people in the car had left, according to WTVJ. Investigators said Rodriguez and Lopez had cuts, bruises, and swelling and felt burning from pepper spray. Rodriguez said she was “confused,” “distraught,” and “traumatized.” 

In an email to The Advocate, Joseph Peguero Rivera, deputy sheriff of the Public Affairs Office at the Miami‑Dade Sheriff’s Office, confirmed that respondents with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue observed “bruises, lacerations and swelling and burning from pepper spray” on Rodriguez and Lopez after the attack, and said that the perpetrators fled in an unknown vehicle. A video shared by WTVJ captured the vehicle’s license plate.

Peguero Rivera said the office’s General Investigations Unit is investigating, but there is no additional information at this time. The sheriff’s office did not respond to a question from The Advocate over whether the attack would be investigated as a hate crime.

Rodriguez questioned whether the attack was a hate crime or something personal. She and Lopez told WTVJ they want to press charges. “This was my life and my partner’s life on the line,” Rodriguez said.