Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse staff’s private gadgets, physique camera reveals in any other case

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Grey Information) - An incident that concerned gamers from a college’s lacrosse staff and deputies in Georgia remains under investigation.

WTOC reports Delaware State University President Tony Allen launched a statement 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 group 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,” mentioned a Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy.

The team was returning residence from a sport in Florida and touring by a contracted bus, based on Allen.

Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman held a news conference in regards to the incident however took no questions. He claimed that no private items on the bus have been searched.

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

The college president wrote in his statement that videos taken by gamers showed regulation enforcement attempting 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 knowledgeable us of what they’re gonna do and no one questioned them...we simply allow them to rattle by way of our stuff.”

A player on the bus asked: “How did we go from being within the mistaken lane to going by means of our bags?”

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

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

Allen wrote that everyone was incensed over the incident.

Allen also added the following:

“We do not intend to let this or another incident prefer it move idly by. We are ready to go wherever the proof leads us. Now we have video. We have allies. Maybe more considerably, we've got the braveness of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his statement by writing, “We are going to never be bullied into believing something other than what we are: People, learners, lecturers, builders—helpful and honorable people able to soar.”

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