Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse staff’s personal items, physique digicam reveals otherwise

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Grey News) - An incident that involved gamers from a college’s lacrosse workforce and deputies in Georgia remains underneath investigation.

WTOC stories Delaware State University President Tony Allen launched a statement 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 dogs.

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

The staff was returning dwelling from a sport in Florida and touring by a contracted bus, according to Allen.

Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman held a news convention about the incident but took no questions. He claimed that no personal gadgets on the bus had been searched.

Body camera video obtained by WTOC, nevertheless, clearly confirmed the deputies going by means of the students’ bags and even medicine.

The college president wrote in his assertion that movies taken by players confirmed regulation enforcement making an attempt 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 via 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: “Properly, he stopped y’all, he didn’t cease y’all for a visitors violation...he stopped the driver for a traffic violation.”

Nothing illegal was found in 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 everybody was incensed over the incident.

Allen also added the following:

“We do not intend to let this or another incident like it pass idly by. We are prepared to go wherever the proof leads us. We have now video. We now have allies. Perhaps more significantly, we've got the courage 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 are: Individuals, learners, teachers, builders—useful and honorable individuals able to soar.”

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