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
masterspace 27 points 3 years ago
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It seems like in this case they arrested most of the people involved on both sides, that first black guy that they put in cuffs they only did right after he clocked that lady in the jaw like 3ft in front of a police officer.
Thedogspaw 6 points 3 years ago
Excuse me sir but could you kindly stop beating that mans ass so I may arrest them kind sir
FlyingSquid 22 points 3 years ago
So is Clarence Thomas. What's your point?
theodewere 21 points 3 years ago
so they're well trained
absentthereaper 8 points 3 years ago path: 0 2196249 2196963 2198894, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 0
zaph 4 points 3 years 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.
SamboT 6 points 3 years 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 -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.
PizzasDontWearCapes 4 points 3 years 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 0 points 3 years 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.
RunningInRVA 75 points 3 years 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.
DingleBoone 48 points 3 years ago
Damn, Aaren's already got a publicist
FlyingSquid 16 points 3 years ago
Aaren is prepared every time.
archomrade 12 points 3 years ago
Nah, that wasn't Aaron, it was Aquaman
stopthatgirl7 6 points 3 years ago
Aquamane.
FlyingSquid 5 points 3 years ago
Aaren could clearly kick Aquaman's butt.
TransplantedSconie 53 points 3 years 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!"
Redditiscancer789 29 points 3 years ago
Should of been fucking hit a few more times. Tired of these racist fucks, wanna act like an ignorant piece of shit? Go live in the 1800s.
elbarto777 7 points 3 years ago path: 0 2195830 2196206 2200682, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 0
codybrumfield 25 points 3 years ago
Fun fact: the folding chair was invented by an African American in the early 1900’s.
linearchaos 34 points 3 years ago
Let's give Nathaniel Alexander some detail!
Patent 997,108, filed March 10, 1911, and granted July 4 the same year
TransplantedSconie 20 points 3 years ago
He was probably sick of swinging full sized regular chairs at racist chucklefucks, so he got to work streamlining the swingin'.
codybrumfield 6 points 3 years ago
“Live Every Chair and Swing” will now be the lyrics.
ApathyTree 6 points 3 years ago
Swing low (or high) sweet chair, it hits, coming forth to stagger them down.
Spendrill 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.'
I_AM_CORNHOLIO 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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Lol the cops show up and start arresting the black people. Not even surprised.
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