Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse staff’s personal objects, body camera reveals in any other case

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray Information) - An incident that involved gamers from a college’s lacrosse staff and deputies in Georgia stays below investigation.

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

Allen wrote Georgia regulation enforcement stopped a bus for a minor site visitors violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse staff on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, including 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 crew was returning house from a sport in Florida and touring by a contracted bus, in line with Allen.

Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman held a news convention concerning the incident however took no questions. He claimed that no personal items on the bus have been searched.

Physique camera video obtained by WTOC, nevertheless, clearly showed the deputies going through the scholars’ luggage and even treatment.

The college president wrote in his assertion that movies taken by gamers showed law enforcement attempting to intimidate them into confessing to possession of drugs and/or drug paraphernalia.

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

A participant on the bus asked: “How did we go from being within the fallacious lane to going via our baggage?”

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

Nothing illegal was found in the search, and Allen informed 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 also added the next:

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

Allen concluded his statement by writing, “We'll never be bullied into believing anything other than what we are: Americans, learners, teachers, builders—useful and honorable individuals ready to soar.”

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