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

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

WTOC experiences Delaware State University President Tony Allen launched a press release 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 site visitors violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse team on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, together with suitcases with drug-sniffing canine.

“100% you can’t be in that left lane at all,” said a Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy.

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

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

Physique camera video obtained by WTOC, nevertheless, clearly showed the deputies going by means of the scholars’ bags and even medicine.

The college president wrote in his statement that videos taken by gamers showed law enforcement making an attempt to intimidate them into confessing to possession of medicine and/or drug paraphernalia.

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

A participant on the bus requested: “How did we go from being within the incorrect lane to going through our luggage?”

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

Nothing illegal was discovered within the search, and Allen knowledgeable the general 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 following:

“We don't intend to let this or any other incident prefer it cross idly by. We are ready to go wherever the proof leads us. We've got video. We have allies. Perhaps extra considerably, we have the braveness of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his statement by writing, “We'll by no means be bullied into believing anything aside from what we're: People, learners, lecturers, builders—helpful and honorable people able to soar.”

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