Three White Men Charged With Assault Following Shocking Montgomery Riverboat Brawl
09.08.2023 - 01:17
/ perezhilton.com
Three man are now facing assault charges after a violent and chaotic brawl broke loose on a riverfront dock in Montgomery, Alabama over the weekend.
A video went viral on Monday showing a massive melee that broke out on Saturday at Riverfront Park in the city. During the brawl, several men were seen throwing an array of punches before a bigger group came together to fight, with at least one person swinging a chair at another person’s head, and several people ending up in the water.
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The fight all began over a dispute about a dockside boat parking spot, according to Montgomery Police Chief Darryl J. Albert. At a news conference on Tuesday, Chief Albert confirmed the fight began after a riverboat crew asked the owners of a small private boat to vacate a parking space reserved for the riverboat.
During the fight, cops says at least three men — Richard Roberts, 48, Allen Todd, 23, and Zachary Shipman, 25 — got into a verbal and then physical dispute with the co-captain of the riverboat, a Black man identified as Damien Pickett. Police say Pickett and another unidentified person — a 16-year-old White teenager — were quickly identified as victims in the ruckus.
The whole situation started at around 7:00 pm local time on Saturday. The Harriott II Riverboat was attempting to dock in its designated spot when a small, private boat was parked there illegally. Riverboat employees asked the boat to move, but according to CNN, the small private boat’s owners responded “with obscene gestures, curse words and taunting.”
Pickett was then sent to the dock in a smaller boat to try to convince the private boat to move. When he got there,