DALLAS -- A witness is questioning how Dallas Police handled a violent altercation involving an assistant police chief and her boyfriend.
Assistant Chief Christina Smith is one of the highest-ranking women at the Dallas Police Department.
On Saturday night she was the duty commander in charge of the entire department. That same night, neighbors called 911 after they say Smith and her boyfriend got into a domestic dispute.
"My wife heard commotion on the street and she yelled are you ok? You need help?" a neighbor, who asked WFAA not to identify him, said.
According to police records obtained by WFAA, witnesses “…. saw a man and a woman tussling with each other."
The neighbor says Smith's boyfriend, Matthew, attacked him when he tried to intervene. He says the boyfriend bit him.
He says Chief Smith was angry they called 911. "She told me that if we would mind our own business, this wouldn't be happening," the neighbor said.
The neighbor says Smith called the communications division to cancel the call to her house. Meanwhile, he neighbor and his sons were struggling to keep him restrained on the ground.
"I think it's her using her power on her behalf. In reality the way, I look at it, she should have been calling 911 and using her power and coming to help us," the neighbor said.
When police did finally arrive, he was arrested for assaulting the neighbor and pubic intoxication, but not for the fight involving Chief Smith.
Three of the Police Associations are wanting an internal affairs and criminal investigations into the incident.
Assistant Chief Smith told WFAA that there has never been a domestic violence incident with her boyfriend. Smith said the argument was between her neighbors and him in their yard.
She also says she never called communications or anyone to intervene in a 911 call -- something she says can be verified through phone records and recordings.