Crime & Justice

Riverboat Captain: Wild Dockside Attack on My Deckhand WAS Racially Motivated

‘A**HOLES’

“It makes no sense to have six people try to beat the snot out of you just because you moved their boat up a few feet,” Harriott II skipper Jim Kittrell told The Daily Beast.

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Screenshot of video footage showing the beginning of a big brawl on a dock in Alabama.
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Racism was at the heart of a dockside melee in Alabama that went viral over the weekend, according to the captain of the vessel whose Black crewman was attacked by a clutch of allegedly intoxicated white pleasure boaters.

“This whole thing is just because these guys were being assholes,” Capt.

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