Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse team’s personal objects, body camera shows otherwise

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Grey Information) - An incident that concerned gamers from a university’s lacrosse workforce and deputies in Georgia stays underneath investigation.

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

Allen wrote Georgia regulation enforcement stopped a bus for a minor traffic violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse team on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, including suitcases with drug-sniffing canines.

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

The workforce was returning house from a sport in Florida and traveling by a contracted bus, according to Allen.

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

Body camera video obtained by WTOC, nevertheless, clearly confirmed the deputies going by means of the scholars’ luggage and even treatment.

The university president wrote in his statement that movies taken by gamers confirmed legislation enforcement making an attempt to intimidate them into confessing to possession of medicine and/or drug paraphernalia.

“They didn’t actually ask us,” stated Sydney Anderson, a Delaware State Lacrosse Player. “They informed us of what they’re gonna do and no one questioned them...we just allow them to rattle by our stuff.”

A player on the bus requested: “How did we go from being in the flawed lane to going by our baggage?”

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

Nothing illegal was found within the search, and Allen knowledgeable the public that he has contacted Delaware’s governor, the Black Caucus and other state officers.

Allen wrote that everybody was incensed over the incident.

Allen also added the next:

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

Allen concluded his statement by writing, “We are going to by no means be bullied into believing anything other than what we're: Individuals, learners, academics, builders—useful and honorable folks able to soar.”

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