The man who was defending the security guard who was at the riverboat property in Alabama, where he has pleaded guilty. Now, I wanna take you back to that incident, and I have more video and the update, here it is >> Speaker 2: Confrontation with [00:00:17] the owner of the boat. [NOISE] [00:01:39] >> Speaker 1: A group of black males, they go to a predominantly white themed boat area and decide to engage in an attack against an employee doing their job. [00:01:55] Do you think the headline is this was a brawl? No, it becomes an attack, right? So they attacked them. They attacked them. And the statute is under a law doctrine called in the defense of others, [00:02:11] you are allowed to utilize physical force in the defense of yourself or in the defense of others, all right? Both are allowable under Alabama law. However, this man has now pleaded guilty, for this action, [00:02:27] as you see here, and it was popularized, obviously, on social media. Reggie Bernard Ray, seen wielding a folding chair as a weapon during the brawl in Montgomery's riverfront Park in August, pleaded guilty on Monday morning to disorderly conduct in the incident. [00:02:46] Now, naturally, this is a plea deal per se, because there is no guilty plea for the physical nature, which would have been assault, battery, et cetera, all right? [00:03:02] So this is a disorderly conduct plea. Check this out. >> Speaker 2: Lift every chair and swing, swing out they Sonic Rings, [00:03:19] bring out them boyz with all them paws and things. Let Aquamayne please arise straight from the watery tides. [00:03:35] >> Speaker 3: Swing that chair full of the might of the ancestors behind us, swing that chair. >> Speaker 4: Lift every chair and swing to [00:03:53] white racist ears do ring with the sound around, find out. >> Speaker 1: Put his picture back up. >> Speaker 1: He has inspired an entire generation. [00:04:12] Lift every chair and swing. Montgomery municipal judge, his name is Milton Westry gave Ray a 90-day suspended jail sentence. That means, he says 90 days suspended. Go home, okay? [00:04:27] That's what that means. He suspended the sentence and ordered him to pay or perform 50 hours of community service and pay $357 in court costs. Ray, who was 42 at the time of the arrest, was one of six people charged in the incident, which drew national attention after cell phone video showed [00:04:46] multiple white men attacking and beating a black co-captain of Harriot II riverboat during a dispute over the riverboat's landing spot on the dock. Ray's involvement came during a later portion of the fight. A deposition from the arresting officer said body camera footage showed Mr. [00:05:05] Ray, who was black, striking a white male wearing shorts and no shirt several times with a folding chair. Another video shows Ray striking a white woman with the chair after she had been knocked down on the dock. [00:05:20] That is not mentioned, however, in the deposition. Ray and his attorney, Virgil Ford, declined to speak with reporters as they left the municipal justice center. Ray's case was the last of six to be resolved in court. [00:05:37] Three white males and a white female pleaded guilty in the case. All the charges were misdemeanors. In October, Richard Roberts of Dallas County pleaded guilty to third degree assault and was ordered to serve 32 days in jail, but [00:05:53] was able to serve his sentence on weekends. Roberts apologized in court to the co-captain, Mr. Dameion Pickett, in court and a 16-year-old child that he hit as well. He was not charged with child abuse, however. Also in October, Mary Todd pleaded guilty to harassment. [00:06:12] She received a 15-day suspended sentence and was ordered to complete anger management, an anger management program and pay court cost. Last week, Zachery Shipman of Dallas County and Allen Todd of Baldwin County, initially charged with third degree assault, [00:06:29] actual assault, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of harassment. Each received a suspended 60-day sentence and 12 months on probation. They were ordered to perform 100 hours of community service, complete an anger management course, and pay a $100 fine and court costs. [00:06:47] As part of those plea deals, the court dismissed a third degree assault charge against Pickett. The incident started when operators of a pontoon boat refused request from the Harriott II to move their boat from a spot where the river boat, [00:07:05] which was loaded with passengers, normally docks. After Pickett and another crew member moved the boat, an argument ensued, and multiple white males attacked Pickett. Now, it's all convoluted. In my opinion, this was done completely wrong. [00:07:22] Mr. Pickett should have never been even considered or investigated for anything. And then you have the dynamic of, well, everybody gets something. Everybody gets some kind of conviction, misdemeanor conviction, and [00:07:37] then we're going to suspend the sentence, and we're gonna make sure that nobody gets charged with a felony, all right? They wanted to not hold those accountable in the way that black males in particular would have been held accountable the other way around. [00:07:53] Everybody, this was a black male-led mob. They would have all been charged with felonies, period. They won. This would not have been simply a city issue, but because of the racial dynamics involved, all of a sudden, there's extreme contextualization. [00:08:09] There's offered courtesies, there's suspended sentences. I have never seen a judge suspend the sentence of everybody involved. It doesn't happen that way typically, suspended sentences are rare in the court of law. It was handed them out like candy, all right? [00:08:26] Sharing thoughts here. >> Speaker 6: On the fix was in. The fix was in. And by the way, Tulsa wasn't a race riot either, okay? >> There you go. >> Speaker 6: But if that's what you wanna do, I guess this is America. Look at your life. I also think that those incredible renditions, those original songs that you played, doc, are fitting for [00:08:45] the next reality show, who needs the voice, if you will? That said, I would have liked to see our people not just lift every voice and sing, but say, hell, no, this is not going down like that and not let go of it. [00:09:00] There's a movement beyond the memes, if you will. And I'm not trying to put it on black people. I'm just saying that, boy, they'll try it. The minutes you just try to close your eyes, get 20 minutes, nap, they'll try it. >> Speaker 5: Yes, and you make a great point. What looks like a victory is not a victory all the time. [00:09:17] >> No. >> Speaker 1: There has to be sustained progress and results.