Montgomery Riverpark Rumble and The Impact of White Entitlement
August 21, 2023
On a busy Saturday on August 5, 2023, in Montgomery, Alabama, Damien Pickett, who is Black and co-captain of the Riverfront Park riverboat, approached a group of sunburned and possibly inebriated white individuals and asked them repeatedly to move their illegally docked pontoon, which was blocking a riverboat called Harriott II carrying a large group of crew and passengers from docking. When they…