Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse team’s private objects, physique camera exhibits in any other case

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - An incident that concerned gamers from a college’s lacrosse team and deputies in Georgia stays beneath investigation.

WTOC reviews Delaware State College President Tony Allen released a press release on Monday responding to the incident that reportedly happened on April 20 in Liberty County.

Allen wrote Georgia law enforcement stopped a bus for a minor visitors violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse crew on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, together with suitcases with drug-sniffing canines.

“100% you may’t be in that left lane in any respect,” mentioned a Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy.

The staff was returning home from a sport in Florida and traveling by a contracted bus, in response to Allen.

Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman held a information conference concerning the incident however took no questions. He claimed that no private items on the bus were searched.

Physique digital camera video obtained by WTOC, nevertheless, clearly confirmed the deputies going through the students’ luggage and even medicine.

The college president wrote in his assertion that videos taken by gamers confirmed regulation enforcement trying to intimidate them into confessing to possession of medication and/or drug paraphernalia.

“They didn’t really ask us,” stated Sydney Anderson, a Delaware State Lacrosse Participant. “They knowledgeable us of what they’re gonna do and nobody questioned them...we simply let them rattle by our stuff.”

A player on the bus asked: “How did we go from being in the flawed lane to going through our bags?”

A deputy responded: “Properly, he stopped y’all, he didn’t cease y’all for a site visitors violation...he stopped the motive force for a traffic violation.”

Nothing illegal was discovered in the search, and Allen knowledgeable the public that he has contacted Delaware’s governor, the Black Caucus and other state officials.

Allen wrote that everyone was incensed over the incident.

Allen additionally added the next:

“We don't intend to let this or another incident like it move idly by. We're ready to go wherever the proof leads us. We have now video. We've got allies. Perhaps more considerably, now we have the braveness of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his assertion by writing, “We'll never be bullied into believing anything other than what we're: Americans, learners, lecturers, builders—helpful and honorable individuals able to soar.”

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