Dameion Picket, co-captain of the Harriot II, was in the melee between white pontoon boat occupants and Black riverboat passengers.
between the vessel’s Black crew members and passengers and white occupants of a pontoon boat has been charged with third-degree assault, according to court records.
The charges against Harriott II co-captain Dameion Pickett, who has previously been identified in court records as Damien Pickett, were filed in Montgomery Municipal Court on Oct. 26.Pickett is charged with third-degree assault and is scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 21, according to municipal court records.crew members of the Harriott II were unable to dock
Crystal Warren, the mother of a 16-year-old deckhand involved in the melee, claimed in a police report that racial slurs were used against Pickett during the brawl. “You could here men yelling ‘f--k that n----r’ and the men came down to fight my son,” she wrote in her report. But in court in October, Warren testified that she did not hear a racial slur.“I think under different circumstances we could be friends,” Roberts told Pickett. “You might not think so.”Roberts received a four-month suspended sentence. Of that, he will serve 32 days in jail in Perry County, with that time to be served on weekends.
A third pontoon boat occupant, Mary Todd, pleaded guilty to harassment late last month. She received a 15-day suspended sentence and was ordered to complete an anger management program and pay court costs.Roy Wood Jr.’s Halloween costume on ‘The View’? A folding chair, as nod to Montgomery riverfront brawlIf you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.
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