Three men have been charged with assault in Alabama after a dock worker was attacked in a riverfront brawl, with footage of the incident widely shared online
Three men have been charged with assault in the US after a black dock worker was attacked in a riverfront brawl.along the Montgomery Riverfront in Alabama was widely shared online.
A 16-year-old employee of the boat that brought Mr Pickett to the pier was also apparently struck during the brawl. Mr Albert said one individual is already in police custody and the other two are expected to turn themselves in later today."There was no need for this event to take the path it did," Mr Albert said."The people of Montgomery, we're better than that. We're a fun city and we don't want this type of activity to shed a dark eye on what this city's all about.
"Everything just spiralled from there. I knew something was going to go down, because their attitude was just, 'You can't tell us what to do'.After the initial attack, several people appeared to rush to the worker's defence - one of them even swimming from the riverboat over to the dock to take part in the brawl.
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