MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An Alabama boat co-captain was hanging on “for dear life” as guys punched and dealtwith him on the capital city’s riverfront, he informed authorities after video of the brawl flowed extensively online.
Dameion Pickett, a team member of the Harriott II in Montgomery, explained the brawl in a handwritten declaration to authorities consistedof in court files, stating he was assaulted after moving a pontoon boat a coupleof feet so the city-owned riverboat might dock.
Four white boaters haveactually been charged with misdemeanor attack in the attack versus Pickett, who is Black, as well as a teenager deckhand, who was punched and is white. The deckhand’s mom heard a racial slur priorto Pickett was struck, she composed in a declaration.
A 5th individual, a Black male who appeared to be striking individuals with a folding chair throughout the subsequent battle, hasactually been charged with disorderly conduct, cops revealed Friday.
Video of the melee triggered ratings of memes and video reenactments.
Pickett informed authorities that the captain had asked a group on a pontoon boat “at least 5 or 6 times” to relocation from the riverboat’s designated docking area however they reacted by “giving us the finger and packaging up to leave.” Pickett and another d