{"id":1998714,"date":"2023-08-12T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/men-attacked-alabama-boat-co-captain-for-just-doing-my-job-he-says\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T15:49:01","slug":"men-attacked-alabama-boat-co-captain-for-just-doing-my-job-he-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/men-attacked-alabama-boat-co-captain-for-just-doing-my-job-he-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama boat co-captain assaulted by men while on duty, says it was for simply doing his job."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmen-attacked-alabama-boat-co-captain-for-just-doing-my-job-he-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1998714&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>An Alabama Boat Co-Captain Describes\u200d Terrifying Brawl on \u2063Riverfront<\/h2>\n<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala.\u2014An Alabama boat co-captain\u200d was hanging on \u201cfor dear\u2062 life\u201d \u200cas men punched and \u200btackled him on the capital city\u2019s \u200briverfront, he told police after video of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/men-attacked-alabama-boat-co-captain-for-just-doing-my-job-he-says\/\" title=\"Alabama boat co-captain assaulted by men while on duty, says it was for simply doing his job.\">brawl circulated widely\u2064 online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dameion Pickett, a crew member of the Harriott II in Montgomery, described the brawl in a handwritten statement to\u2063 authorities included in court documents, saying he was attacked after moving a pontoon boat a \u2062few feet \u2063so the city-owned riverboat could dock.<\/p>\n<p>Four white boaters have been charged with misdemeanor assault \u2064in \u2064the attack against Mr. Pickett,\u00a0who \u200dis black,\u200b as well as\u2063 a \u2062teen deckhand, who was punched and is white. The deckhand&#8217;s mother heard \u2063a racial slur before Mr. Pickett was hit, she wrote in \u2063a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/police-chief-in-texas-speaks-about-mental-health-stigma-following-officers-suicide-5459453\">Police Chief in \u200bTexas Speaks About Mental Health Stigma Following Officer&#8217;s Suicide<\/a> &#8211; 8\/11\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/burglary-suspect-shot-wounded-by-police-in-san-diego-5460271\">Burglary Suspect Shot, Wounded by Police in San Diego<\/a> &#8211; 8\/11\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A fifth \u2064person, a black \u2063man who appeared\u2063 to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/w-h-economic-adviser-bernstein-increasing-u-s-oil-production-isnt-part-of-bidens-gas-price-plan-but-well-get-other-countries-to-produce\/\" title=\"W.H. Economic Adviser Bernstein: Increasing U.S. Oil Production Isn't Part of Biden's Gas Price Plan, But We'll Get Other Countries to Produce\">hitting people<\/a> with a folding chair during the subsequent fight, has been charged with disorderly conduct, police announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Video of \u2064the melee \u200csparked scores of memes and video reenactments.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pickett told police that the captain had asked a group on a pontoon boat \u201cat \u200dleast five or six times\u201d to move from the riverboat&#8217;s designated docking\u200d space but they responded by \u201cgiving us the finger and packing up to leave.\u201d\u00a0Mr. Pickett and\u200d another deckhand eventually took a vessel to shore and moved the pontoon boat \u201cthree steps to the right,&#8221; he \u200bwrote.<\/p>\n<p>He said two \u200cpeople\u200c ran rushing back, including one cursing and threatening\u200b to beat him for touching the boat. Mr. Pickett wrote that one of the men shouted that it was public dock space, but Mr. Pickett told them it was the city&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-shedding-residents-as-homeless-encampments-and-crime-dominate-everyday-life\/\" title=\"Portland losing residents due to homeless camps and crime taking over daily life.\">designated space<\/a> for \u200cthe riverboat. He said he told them he was <strong>&#8220;just doing my job.&#8221;<\/strong> Mr.\u200b Pickett said he was punched in the face and hit from behind.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>A\u2064 chaotic brawl\u200c breaks out on a \u2063popular riverfront dock in Montgomery, Ala., \u2064on Aug. 5, 2023. (Courtesy of Laurieann K Marie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI went to the ground. I think I bit one of \u2063them. All I can hear Imma kill you\u201d and beat you, he wrote. He couldn\u2019t tell \u201chow \u200dlong it lasted\u201d and \u201cgrabbed one of them and just held on for dear life,\u201d Mr. Pickett wrote.<\/p>\n<p>After the fight was over\u200b Mr. Pickett said he \u200dapologized to the riverboat customers for the inconvenience as he helped them get off the boat.<\/p>\n<p>The deckhand had gone with \u200cMr. Pickett\u2062 to\u2063 move the pontoon boat. His mother, who was also on the Harriott,\u200b said\u2062 in a statement to police that her son tried to pull the men off Mr.\u2064 Pickett and was punched in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>Darron Hendley, an attorney listed in court records for two of the people \u200bcharged, declined to comment. It was \u2063not immediately clear if the others had an attorney to speak on \u2064their \u200dbehalf.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery \u2064Mayor Steven Reed said Friday that the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they consulted with the FBI and determined \u2063what happened on the riverfront did not qualify as a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what \u200cwe\u2019ve seen from the\u200d history of our city\u2014a \u2062place tied to both the p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama boat co-captain recounted a terrifying experience to the police, stating that he was clinging on desperately while being attacked by men on the riverfront. Dameion Pickett, a crew member of the Harriott II in Montgomery, provided a handwritten statement to the authorities, which was later submitted in court, after a video of the brawl gained widespread attention online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1998715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}