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The co-captain, being attacked by several members of the private boat. several members of the harriet ii came to mr. picket s defense, engaging in what we all have seen since on social media. i will give you a timeline as to when the calls came in and the montgomery police department s response. the original call came in at 7:00 p.m. as a typical disturbance. the caller who was the captain of the harriet was very calm and not in distress. as additional calls were received, at 7:15 p.m. the call was dispatched to the montgomery police department. 7:18 the first units, four montgomery police department officers, arrived on scene with three shortly thereafter. 13 individuals were detained and brought to police headquarters for questioning and interviews. those interviews lasted several ....
Identified location, however, it quickly escalated into a fist [ inaudible question ] so as it relates to racial epithets in conversation and names being called, while the harriet was still out in the water there was a lot of obscene finger gestures and comments and innuendos made at a distance. of course, when the co-captain approached that continued, but, again, working with the local fbi, we did examine if there was enough to file hate crimes charges on this case and, again, we rely heavily on advice from the fbi. we ve also looked at what it takes to elevate this to a riot or inciting a riot. we ve worked with our local district attorney and it didn t fit the criteria for that. ....
Able to pick up the co-captain and bring him to the dock so that he could work on moving the boats that were impeding the docking of the harharriet. [ inaudible question ] i do not have the information on the defendant that turned himself in. we do know that one has since then taken into custody by selma pd and the other two are in route to selma now to turn themselves in and of course the montgomery police department will do that transfer of those suspects to be transported here to the city of montgomery. can you describe the signage at the dock there? so there was no signage at the time, however, the mooring area for the harriet is well-defined by the dock itself, ....
The gangway access as well as the mooring requirements, the private boat was docked in its space, prohibiting safe docking of the harriet. the captain of the hairier repaired away from the dock for nearly 40 to 45 minutes as he attempted to contact the operators of the private dock via pa system. they were only responded to with obscene gestures, curse words and taunting. the co-captain was then picked up by a separate vessel and brought to the pier in an attempt to have a conversation with the private boat owners and or have those boats moved so that the harriet could dock. a confrontation ensued between the co-captain and mr. picket, ....