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

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - An incident that concerned gamers from a university’s lacrosse workforce and deputies in Georgia remains beneath 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 legislation enforcement stopped a bus for a minor traffic violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse staff on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, including suitcases with drug-sniffing canine.

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

The workforce was returning house from a game in Florida and traveling by a contracted bus, based on Allen.

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

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

The college president wrote in his statement that movies taken by players showed legislation enforcement making an attempt to intimidate them into confessing to possession of medication and/or drug paraphernalia.

“They didn’t really ask us,” said 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 means of our stuff.”

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

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

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

Allen wrote that everybody was incensed over the incident.

Allen additionally added the next:

“We don't intend to let this or any other incident prefer it pass idly by. We're ready to go wherever the evidence leads us. We have now video. Now we have allies. Maybe more significantly, we have now the braveness of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his assertion by writing, “We will by no means be bullied into believing something apart from what we're: Americans, learners, academics, builders—helpful and honorable people ready to soar.”

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