While the now infamous Alabama riverboat brawl seemed to be divided into racial lines, one participant claimed that the skirmish was not racially motivated.

According to AL.com, Anwar Price, a Black man who is originally from Michigan,  said that he was trying to break up the fight.  Donning a University of Michigan Nike shirt, the video footage shows that he never threw a punch and was not targeted in the fight.

“I actually have been involved in altercations like that, where I made the wrong choice,” Price said.

“It might look cool on Facebook — you might get some ‘likes’ for being violent in that kind of situation — but, when the dust settles, it’s going to be you and the consequences that you have to live with. We want to teach our kids to do the right thing,” he added.

Price said that he was at the Montgomery riverside to attend a back-to-school event with his 14-year-old daughter.

“It happened so suddenly,” said Price, who’s been a resident of Alabama since 2001.“We were just watching, and it was a nice and peaceful, watching everyone just observing things.”

As the fight began, Price said that he was going to keep his distance until he saw that the boaters outnumbered the dock worker.

“I wasn’t even going to get involved at first, and just stay where I was,” Price said. “Then I noticed about six or seven people running toward (the riverboat co-captain), and from that point, it was pretty much an automatic reaction for me to start running toward them.”

In the aftermath of the events, Price doesn’t believe that race wasn’t a factor in the altercation.

“A lot of people are trying to promote this as about racism, and I don’t really think this was a racism thing,” Price explained.

Unlike Price’s point of view, a riverboat employee alleges that several of the White men used racial slurs, and another threatened to bring a gun to the scene, reports TMZ.

Crystal Warren told authorities that one of the white men who attacked the Black dock worker yelled, f*** that n*****," after the employee moved the smaller boats so the Harriot II could dock.

Warren also told law enforcement that the white boaters began cursing and making obscene hand gestures at the dock worker when they were asked to move their boats. Because of their non-compliance, the Harriot II was delayed for almost 20 minutes.

When Warren’s son, 16-year-old Daniel, and the docker worker moved the boats blocking the dock and tied them back up, she said that one of the boaters said the n-word. During the brawl, Daniel was punched in the chest, suffered bruised ribs, and was admitted to the hospital after trying to defend the dock worker.

Richard Roberts, 48, who is accused of punching Daniel, has been arrested and charged with 3rd-degree assault.

Two other suspects, Zachery Shipman, 25, and Allen Todd, 23 turned themselves in on Tuesday (August 8), local station WVTM reports.

Shipman and Todd have both been charged with one count of third-degree assault.