A woman was fined $2,400 for assaulting Police officers but not before her lawyer tried to convince a Magistrate she was the one who got assaulted.Latoya Simons, 28, pleaded guilty to telling female officer Chaquita Simmons: “You f*****g b*tch, f**k the Police, burn motherf**kers.”She also admitted assaulting Pc Simmons and her colleague Oswin Pereira in the execution of their duties.According to the prosecution case, Simons called Police officers a**holes when they asked her to move her vehicle, which was obstructing the road near the Ice Queen restaurant in Paget in the early hours of January 3.Pc Simmons and Pc Pereira gave evidence in her trial earlier this month that she yelled more and spat in their faces when they tried to detain her, which they eventually managed with the aid of Captor spray.Pc Simmons suffered a chest injury that required hospital treatment. Simons, a single mother who works at HSBC bank, initially denied the charges and went on trial on January 5.She spent three days in custody after her arrest and during the initial stages of the prosecution case before firing her original lawyer, Larry Scott, and successfully requesting bail on January 6.She returned to court yesterday with a new attorney, Charles Richardson, who urged Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner to find Simons had no case to answer.Mr Richardson said Pc Simmons admitted she could not be sure it was Simons who shouted a**holes at the Police.Nonetheless, he said, the officer took hold of Simons’ left hand and asked her why she was being disrespectful.He argued that the officer had no grounds at that point for arresting Simons, and claimed she assaulted Simons by putting her hands on her.“On the facts before this court it is clear that when officer Simmons grabbed hold of Ms Simons’ arm she was not exercising her power of arrest and as such was assaulting Ms Simons,” he alleged.He went on to claim Simons was entitled to resist the officer because of that. “She simply pulled her arm away and cussed. In those circumstances she was entitled to utter a few profane words. She’d just been assaulted and she uttered those words at the person who assaulted her,” he told Mr Warner.Mr Warner ruled against Mr Richardson after hearing objections from prosecutor Robert Welling who said the defence submissions were “wholly misconceived”. Mr Richardson then asked for a brief adjournment so he could give Simons some advice.When the court reconvened, she pleaded guilty to using offensive words and assaulting the two officers in the execution of their duties. Mr Welling said he would not proceed with a further charge of violently resisting arrest.Before Mr Warner sentenced Simons, of Brooklyn Lane, Pembroke, Mr Welling explained she has previous convictions for uttering offensive words and violently resisting arrest.According to The Royal Gazette archives, she swore at Police officers and lashed out at them when she was pulled her over in connection with a hit and run incident in June 2005. She pleaded guilty and was fined $1,000.Mr Richardson asked the Magistrate to be lenient, because Simons would lose her favourable HSBC staff mortgage rate as well as her job if she were sent to jail.Mr Warner fined Simons $800 for each of the three offences and warned her: “You now have two convictions. From what Mr Richardson says it would seem that you have got a lot to lose. You must control your temper and behave yourself, even in the face of what you may consider to be aggravation.”