try to take control and handcuffing people in a fight. they were antagonists in the whole situation, and unfortunately when people of color are the first to be put in handcuffs. many people remain about the melee that is split across racial lines. we are doing the due diligence about what took place. and talk about a story that has taken social media by storm, and they have analyzed the video from every angle, but talking to the witness, it is clear that the man who was working with the one who was attack and the police are of course talking about anyone with video of this incident to come forward and hopefully today at the 2:00 news conference and who those people are who are charged and what they are facing. ryan young, thank you.
young man who jumped off the boat swimming ashore to help the man being attacked. the boat got closer. the guy and everybody got off. that s when it happened. that s the reason why when they got off the boat they came to the smaller boat. reporter: that s when more fighting ensues turning into an all-out brawl that had several people getting hit over the head with a folding chair. officers started to handcuff people. they were the antagonists. arrest them. unfortunately when things happen people of color are the first to be put in handcuffs. reporter: many questions remain about melee that appeared to be very much split across racial lines. we re fully engaged and doing our due dilegance.
video the black employee on the dock arguing with one of the men from the pontoon boat. then another shirtless white man charging at the employee and hitting him in the face. soon after that, you can see several others join in on the attack of the dock employee. in some of the video, which has gone viral with millions of views, people on the boat can be heard yelling for someone to help the employee. then at one point, you can see a young man who has jumped off the boat swimming ashore to help the man who is being attacked. the boat got closer. the guys and crews members and everybody got off, and that s when it happened. that s the reason why when they got off the boat, they came right to that smaller boat. that s when more fighting ensues, turning into an all-out brawl, that included several people getting hit over the head with a folding chair. soon after officers tried to take control, handcuffing people in the fight. they were antagonists in the whole situation, arrest them.
desperately trying to copy tiktok but without as much success. there is no guarantee, however, that tiktok is going to have success as it ventures into another area, where does necessarily have the skills and ability. and also, if it cannot crack the question of trust, thanit crack the question of trust, than it is going to fall flat in this area. whilst there are naysayers and antagonists in the us making arguments about our inability to trust the chinese, actually the us platforms are equally to blame for their privacy abuses. the big question arises, are consumers going to be willing to trust a chinese platform in this way. let s turn to a story from the uk now. the chief executive of natwest is facing pressure from the government to resign after she admitted discussing the closure of nigel farage s coutts bank account with the bbc s business editor simonjack.
in most every date. cornell west is trying to be candidate. many democrats, including david axlerod, the former architect of the obama campaign, is causing, he says this should raise the alarm for democrats particularly in the ball wall michigan, wisconsin, would he siphon votes away from biden. plenty of time for democratic bed-wetting and hand-wringing. on the other side of the aisle, you have tim scott announcing as well as chris christie saying they reached the donor threshold. chris christie has been one of donald trump s biggest antagonists. does that put pressure for trump to show up? chris christie, he thought he would thit the threshold. yesterday he did. all week long he has been calling the former president a coward. yesterday he said, donny, come on in, are you not gonna debate? we will see if he can goad him into this.