Large brawl in Alabama as people defend Black riverboat worker against white assailants

Saturday night fight, which was captured in multiple videos posted to social media, appeared to unfold largely along racial lines

A dramatic brawl on the Montgomery, Alabama, riverfront pitted people standing up for a Black riverboat worker against a group of white people who began beating him for telling them to move their illegally parked pontoon.

The Saturday night fight, which was captured in multiple videos posted to social media, appeared to unfold largely along racial lines. And many social media users celebrated footage of the riverfront dust-up, which showed the white assailants get the tables turned on them by Black people who rushed up to the riverboat worker’s aid.

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