Who Slurred Who In Massive Nashville Water Park Melee?

NASHVILLE, TN -- Metro Police broke up a huge brawl at Wave Country Saturday but made no arrests because, they say, it was impossible to say who was responsible.

The two families at the center of the melee agree that it began when a white man bumped into the floats of three black girls, they told Fox 17, but after that things get murky.

The Holt family, who are black, told the station that the men yelled racial slurs at the girls, who then told their parents, but the Sellars family, who are white, say that's not the case.

“They had their kids throwing stuff at us calling us white trash this and that and all kind of craziness,” Jonathan Sellers said, but according to Amanda Holt it was the other way around

“With us approaching them, that’s when all the aggression from them started and that’s when we were called the ‘N’ word," she said.

Both families told the station they plan to seek legal redress against Wave Country, which is run under the auspices of Metro Parks, for a lack of security preventing the fight. In a statement, the water park's management said an internal investigation is underway.

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