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

  • @Son_of_dad
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    951 year ago

    Lol the cops show up and start arresting the black people. Not even surprised.

    • money_loo
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      161 year ago

      Well yeah they were winning, usually you have to arrest the people who are winning first because it would be awkward to try to arrest someone while they’re getting their ass beat.

      • @[email protected]
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        671 year ago

        it would be awkward to try to arrest someone while they’re getting their ass beat.

        Hoo boy, do I have some awkward bodycam footage for you…

        • money_loo
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          111 year ago

          First I laughed at this comment. Then I cried a little on the inside. Ugh.

      • The dogspaw
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        61 year ago

        Excuse me sir but could you kindly stop beating that mans ass so I may arrest them kind sir

    • @trias10
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      31 year ago

      The cops were all black too.

      • Flying Squid
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        221 year ago

        So is Clarence Thomas. What’s your point?

      • @zaph
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        131 year ago

        Black police showing out for the white cop

        NWA addressed this already.

            • @visak
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              21 year ago

              lol. I didn’t make the connection for some reason.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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.

      • @zaph
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        41 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          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.

          • @zaph
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            -31 year 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.

          • @Fungah
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            -51 year ago

            Is active threats your new short code for African American?

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          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

          • @zaph
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            01 year ago

            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.

            • @kite
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              31 year ago

              I just heard on the news that not only was chair guy not arrested, they don’t know who he is and police are looking for him. I want to say it was David Muir’s World News Tonight but I’m not 100% on that as I was in another room and only sort of listening

              • @zaph
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                21 year ago

                Oh shit that’s some bittersweet news. Thanks

  • @RunningInRVA
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    751 year ago

    The best part of the article is our hero Aaren:

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    As authorities try to untangle the incident, a man who was seen swimming across the river to the aid of the riverboat worker was partly identified as “Aaren”.

    “In the face of adversity, Aaren selflessly came to the rescue of a fellow colleague, showcasing courage beyond his years,” a statement from his publicist, Makina Lashea, read.

  • @[email protected]
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    531 year ago

    Damn man. Someone was beaten over the head with a folding chair?

    rocking song starts playing

    “Ba gawd! That’s the riverboat captain’s music!”

  • @[email protected]
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    471 year ago

    Police also appealed to the public for help in determining what had happened.

    ‘It appears to the untrained eye that this is a simple case of some white people fucking around and finding out but we need some white witnesses to tell us that it is all the black suspects fault.’

  • Vaggumon
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    211 year ago

    Thoughts and chairs.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    Fucking lol. Imagine fucking your life up because you hate the way dark skinned people look or some shit.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    You know to defend the white guys that were involved in this unfortunate incident, would be fucking stupid.