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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[–] 95 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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

    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.

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

    Black police showing out for the white cop

    NWA addressed this already.

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

    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.

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

    Fun fact: the folding chair was invented by an African American in the early 1900’s.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years 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.'

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    Thoughts and chairs.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    They tried it in a big town and got their asses kicked.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

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

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