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Large brawl in Alabama as people defend Black riverboat worker against white assailants (www.theguardian.com)
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Fight appeared to start when a worker objected to a pontoon boat preventing a larger river boat from docking, and was attacked by a group of white men

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

In the video I watched they arrested the guy who hit people, including a woman who wasn't in the brawl at the time, with a folding chair.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I like how you specifically point out the one blow a black person in the fight made that was fucked up and completely ignore the fact that the white pieces of shit started the violence. Very telling.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Dude wtf. His comment was in response to the police arresting black people and he was saying why that might make sense.

    As has been said, you control active threats first for your own safety. Calm down.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago

    I completely understand subduing all active threats until you figure out what happened and who is actually a threat but the comment I replied to only mentioned one person and I was pointing that out.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The white boaters clearly started everything but the only arrest I've seen as well was the guy who went all WWE with a folding chair on a woman who was already on the ground, right in front of the cops

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I've seen an article that said the 3 dudes who started it were arrested but I haven't found anything about chair guy. Hope you're right that was fucked. She'd just gotten her shit kicked in properly she didn't deserve the chair.

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