Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse staff’s private objects, body camera exhibits in any other case

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - An incident that concerned gamers from a college’s lacrosse group and deputies in Georgia stays under investigation.

WTOC stories Delaware State University President Tony Allen released a press release 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 crew on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, together with suitcases with drug-sniffing dogs.

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

The workforce was returning home from a game in Florida and traveling by a contracted bus, in keeping with Allen.

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

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

The college president wrote in his statement that movies taken by players showed law enforcement trying to intimidate them into confessing to possession of drugs and/or drug paraphernalia.

“They didn’t really ask us,” stated Sydney Anderson, a Delaware State Lacrosse Player. “They knowledgeable us of what they’re gonna do and nobody questioned them...we simply let them rattle by 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: “Effectively, he stopped y’all, he didn’t cease y’all for a site visitors violation...he stopped the driver for a traffic violation.”

Nothing illegal was discovered in the search, and Allen informed 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 following:

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

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

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