black employee was trying to clear the dock space. the cruiser was about to return to shore and needed space to dock. just doing his job. for some reason, they didn t like it. they didn t want to move the boat. he decided to get physical with him. you can see in the video, the bl black employee of the dock, arguing with a man on the pontoon boat. and a white man hitting him in the face. several others join in on the attack. some of the video, which has gone viral, people are selling to help the employee. at one point, you can see a young man, jumped off the boat, swimming ashore to help the man being attacked. the boat got closer. the guys and the crew members and everybody got off.
cruise boat crew member attacked by a group of white men who witnesses say were on a private pontoon boat. ryan young picks up the story from there. reporter: an altercation on a montgomery alabama boat dock over the weekend between a group of white boaters and a black employee escalated in to a massive brawl that resulted in multiple arrest warrants. montgomery mayor steven reed is calling for justice to be served for attacking a man who was doing his job. this is an unfortunate incident. something that we re investigating. we ll continue to go through the process before we take any additional steps. reporter: it all began when the black employ ewas trying to clear the dock space with the riverside cruise harriet 2 normally docks. the cruiser was about to return to shore and needed its space to dock. you know, just doing his job. and for some reason, they didn t like it. they didn t want to move the
omar? a group of white boaters attacked a black dock worker and we have seen the video. the montgomery mayor is calling for justice to be served and ryan young has the latest. reporter: an altercation on the montgomery boat dock over the weekend between a group of white boaters and black employee escalated to a massive brawl that resulted in massive arrest warrants. justice is being called for after a man was trying to do his job. it is something that we are investigating right now, and we will continue to go through the process before we take additional steps. it began when the black employee was trying to clear the dock space with the harriet ii normally docks. the cruiser was about to return to shore and needed space to dock. he was doing his job, and for some reason, they didn t like
additional steps. reporter: it all began when the black employee was trying to clear the dock space where the riverside cruise, the harriett ii normally docks. the cruiser was about to return to shore and needed its space to dock. you know, just doing his job. and for some reason they didn t like it. they didn t want to move the boat. and he decided to get physical with him. reporter: you can see in the video the black employee on the dock arguing with one of the men from the pontoon boat and 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 go help the employee. and at one point, you can see a young man who jumped off the boat, swimming ashore to help the man who was being attacked. the boat got closer. the guys and the crew members
job when he was attacked. an altercation on a montgomery boat dock between a group of white boaters and black low escalated into a massive brawl that resulted in multiple arrest warrants. montgomery mayor steven reed is calling for justice to be served for attacking a man who was doing his job. it s an unfortunate incident. and it s something that we re investigating right now. we ll continue to go through that process before we take any additional steps. reporter: it all began when the black employee was trying to clear the dock space where the riverside cruise the hair yacht ii normally docks. the cruiser was about to return to shore and needed its space to dock. you know, just doing his job. and for some reason they didn t like it. they didn t want to move the boat. and he decided to get physical with him. reporter: you can see in the video, the black employee on the dock arguing with one of the men from the pontoon boat.