Woman charged with assault over viral WWE-style brawl with Alabama boat co-captain

A fourth particular person was arrested Thursday in connection to the WWE-style attack on the black co-captain of a riverboat that was making an attempt to dock in Alabama.

Mary Todd, 21, was slapped with a third-degree assault cost after she turned herself in to Montgomery police and is being held in jail, the division mentioned.

Police didn’t disclose what position she performed within the violent melee, however video exhibits a lady with options much like Todd’s hurling punches and shoving others in the course of the chaotic brawl that some consider was racially charged.

Todd is the fourth person to be hit with misdemeanor charges in connection to the epic battle — although police mentioned extra arrest warrants are prone to be handed down within the coming days.

Richard Roberts, 48, Allen Todd, 23, and Zachary Shipman, 25, had been charged Tuesday with assault.

It isn’t but clear whether or not Mary Todd and Allen Todd are associated.

The out-of-control battle broke out Saturday when a gaggle of white boaters parked their pontoon boat in a delegated docking spot for the city-owned Harriott II riverboat, police mentioned.

The black riverboat co-captain, Damien Pickett, took one other vessel to shore to maneuver the pontoon boat so some 200 Harriott II passengers may disembark when he was brutally attacked.

Wild footage captured a number of white adults pouncing on Pickett in a WWE-style takedown that concerned punching, kicking and shoving.

The battle rapidly escalated right into a manic battle that concerned dozens of others, together with riverboat crew members who stepped in to assist their co-captain, in keeping with police.

The brawl ended with folks thrown into the river, a number of struck with a folding chair and several other in handcuffs.

One witness claimed members of the pontoon get together screamed the N-word earlier than instigating the enormous melee.

One other man mentioned he “was getting his gun” simply earlier than he was tackled by a riverboat crew member, bystanders advised police.

No less than 13 folks had been detained and interviewed within the aftermath of the brawl, and extra folks might be arrested as police proceed their investigation.

Police are nonetheless searching for Reggie Grey, 42, who they consider was noticed whacking no less than two folks with a folding chair.

Montgomery Police Chief Darryl Albert has mentioned that his pressure regarded into the potential for race-hate expenses with the assistance of the FBI.

Nonetheless, they concluded the battle was not racially motivated – citing what Pickett advised investigators.

The captain of the Harriott II, Jim Kittrell, thinks in any other case.

“It is not sensible to have six folks attempt to beat the snot out of you simply since you moved their boat up a number of toes. For my part, the assault on Damien was racially motivated,” Kittrell advised The Day by day Beast.