The co-captain of the Harriott II said he and a 16-year-old deckhand were attacked by a group of drunk white men when he told them to move their pontoon boat on Montgomery’s riverfront, according to police records obtained by AL.com.

Dameion Pickett said his attackers were drunk and threatened to kick his ass Saturday night, moments before the start of the now-notorious dock brawl.

“I told them, ‘No, you won’t,’’’ Pickett said in police records obtained.

“I told them, ‘Do what you gotta do. I’m just doing my job.”

When it was over, Pickett had suffered bruises to his ribs and knots on the back of his head and forehead.

A 16-year-old deckhand-in-training was also injured during the melee, the records state.

“He has bruised ribs,’’ said the teen’s mother, Crystal Warren, who obtained the warrant on behalf of her son. “He is really sore.”

Warren also noted in her police report that a racial slur was used against Pickett during the brawl.

“You could here (sic) men yelling ‘f–k that n—-r’ and the men came down to fight my son,” she wrote in her report.

Warrants have been issued against the three white men who were on the pontoon boat: Richard Roberts, 48, two counts of third-degree assault; Allen Todd, 23, one count of third-degree assault, and Zachery “Chase” Shipman, 25, one count of third-degree assault.

All charges are misdemeanors and all three had been booked by Wednesday. Efforts to reach their attorneys for comment were not immediately successful.

Montgomery Police Chief Darryl Albert said earlier this week that he had consulted with the FBI and state prosecutors and said that the incident did not meet the criteria of a hate crime.

Pickett, in police reports, said they were pulling into the boat about 6:50 p.m. Saturday when they noticed a couple of boats were too close to the docking area.

They called the captain to ask them to move. He said they told him they were not moving.

It was then that they used the Harriott II’s public address system to call for the owners of the pontoon boat to move.

Pickett said they made five or six requests for the boat to move with no success, so he decided to head to the dock to try to resolve the issue.

“When I got down to the first deck, all I can hear customer’s screaming, ‘move your boat, you’re in the way,’’’ Picket said in the report. “By that time, they were shooting birds, giving us the finger and packing up to leave.”

Pickett went to the dock where he untied one end of the pontoon and the 16-year-old deckhand untied the other. The two moved the pontoon boat over about three steps to the right and tied it back off.

By that time, Pickett said, two men approached him and said, “Don’t touch that boat ‘mother (expletive) or we will beat your ass,’’ he said in the report.

“Both was very drunk,’’ he said.

The exchange continued until the pontoon boat’s owner joined in, Pickett said.

Pickett said he told them there had been signs there letting boaters know not to dock there, but they had been pulled out.

“He got in my face and was like, ‘This belongs to the (expletive) public,’’’ Pickett said. “I told him, ‘This is the city dock.’’’

By that time, Pickett said, one of the men hit him in the face. Pickett took off his hat and threw it in air.

“Somebody hit me from behind,’’ he said. “I started choking the older guy in front of me so he couldn’t hit me anymore, pushing him back at the same time.”

Another man then tackled Pickett, he said.

“I went to the ground,’’ he said. “I think I bit one of them. All I can hear is, ‘I’ma kill you mother (expletive), beat your ass mother (expletive).”

“I can’t tell you how long it lasted,’’ Pickett said. “I grabbed one of them and just held on for dear life.”

By that time, others were involved, some of them trying to pull the men off Pickett.

He said he looked up and that’s when he saw one of his co-workers, also 16, swimming toward him.

Eventually, Pickett said, he was able to get free and help dock the Harriott II.

“So, I let the ramp down. My nose was running,’’ he said. “I hear the passengers and coworkers arguing with the people who attacked me.”

The melee continued.

“People from off the boat and spectators were coming down the back end of the dock,’’ he said. “The one who started it all was choking my sister.”

“I hit him, grabbed her, made her move,’’ he said. “I turned around and MPD had a Taser in my face. I told him I was the one attacked, and could I finish doing my job?”

He said he later learned that the teen deckhand had been punched in the stomach.

Pickett said as more passengers got off the boat, he apologized to them, and they told him there was no need for an apology.

“Some of them was giving me cards with their name and number,’’ he said. “Some said they had it all on film, so I pointed them out to MPD.”

Pickett said he was then checked out by paramedics. “My head was hurting,’’ he said. “I felt a knot in the back of my head and in the front.”

He asked coworkers to bring him some ice.

He told paramedics on a scale of one to 10, his pain was at a nine.

City officials, he said, convinced him to go to the hospital after he finished the police paperwork.

“I was feeling light, so I left and went to the hospital,’’ he said. “They scanned me from head to toe. No broken bones, just bruised ribs, and few lumps.”

He said he was given three shots and three prescriptions.

Pickett gave descriptions to police of Roberts, Todd and Shipman. “Zachery was seen on video hitting and kicking me,’’ he said.

All three are charged in the assault on Pickett.

The 16-year-old victim suffered contusions to his ribs when he was punched in the chest, records state.

His mother, who was on the Harriott II at the time of the incident, provided the information to obtain the warrant against Roberts, the only suspect with two charges.

Warren’s account of the ordeal was much the same as Pickett’s.

When her son and Pickett moved the pontoon boat, she said, “About six or seven other men rushed to the dock to stomp and beat the deckhand.”

She said her son tried to pull people off Pickett.

“At that time, the man that first hit the deckhand had turned around and punched my 16-year-old son in the chest,’’ Warren wrote. “My son backed away hurt and went to tie the Harriott II up to the dock.”

Warren said that one of the attackers was heard saying he was getting his gun.

“He tried to go get the gun but was tackled by an employee of the Harriott II named Aaren,’’ she said.

Once the boat was docked, she said, her son came to her on the boat to “sit down so he could catch his breath.”

She said she took her son to the hospital in Prattville to be checked out.