So what exactly happened? Here's a full explanation of this now-viral incident.
shows people punching and shoving one another, with one person falling into the water as police struggled to contain the chaos.What police say about the fight, confirmed that a group of private white boaters had attacked a Black dockworker, identified as Pickett. Later, police would identify Pickett as the assistant boat captain of the riverboat.As passengers aboard the riverboat — more than 200 — waited at least 30 minutes, Pickett tried to get the rowdy private boaters to move.
That’s when the brawl began. Pickett wrote, “A tall, older white guy came over and hit me in the face. I took my hat off and threw it in the air. Somebody hit me from behind. I started choking the older guy in front of me so he couldn’t anymore, pushing him back at the same time.” He added that his nephew joined the melee and he had also seen his sister being choked during the fight.
“It was really difficult to watch, and, like I said, we felt helpless, because we were forced to be spectators,” Owen added.Additionally, Leslie Mawhorter also on Harriott II, added: “They just didn’t think the rules applied to them. It was so avoidable. This never had to have happened. Everything just spiraled from there.”
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