Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse staff’s private objects, physique digital camera reveals in any other case

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - An incident that concerned players from a university’s lacrosse group and deputies in Georgia stays underneath investigation.

WTOC reports Delaware State College President Tony Allen launched an announcement on Monday responding to the incident that reportedly occurred on April 20 in Liberty County.

Allen wrote Georgia legislation 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 possibly can’t be in that left lane in any respect,” mentioned a Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy.

The crew was returning house from a sport in Florida and traveling by a contracted bus, in keeping with Allen.

Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman held a information convention in regards to the incident but took no questions. He claimed that no private items on the bus had been searched.

Body digital camera video obtained by WTOC, however, clearly showed the deputies going via the students’ luggage and even medicine.

The university president wrote in his assertion that movies taken by players confirmed law enforcement making an attempt to intimidate them into confessing to possession of drugs and/or drug paraphernalia.

“They didn’t really ask us,” stated Sydney Anderson, a Delaware State Lacrosse Player. “They knowledgeable us of what they’re gonna do and no one questioned them...we simply let them rattle through our stuff.”

A player on the bus requested: “How did we go from being in the fallacious lane to going via our luggage?”

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

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

Allen wrote that everybody was incensed over the incident.

Allen additionally added the next:

“We do not intend to let this or any other incident prefer it go idly by. We are prepared to go wherever the proof leads us. We've video. Now we have allies. Maybe more significantly, we have the courage of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his assertion by writing, “We will by no means be bullied into believing something other than what we're: Americans, learners, lecturers, builders—useful and honorable individuals able to soar.”

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