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Kelly Rissman

EXPLAINED: Alabama dockside brawl was racially motivated riverboat captain says | Rare Historical Photos

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A boat captain at the centre of the viral dockside brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, has said he believes the attack on his colleague that launched the melee was racially motivated.

Capt Jim Kittrell was trying to dock the Harriott II riverboat on Saturday when he was stopped by a pontoon boat parked where his vessel was meant to come in.

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