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

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - An incident that involved players from a university’s lacrosse group and deputies in Georgia stays below investigation.

WTOC reports Delaware State College President Tony Allen launched a statement on Monday responding to the incident that reportedly happened on April 20 in Liberty County.

Allen wrote Georgia law enforcement stopped a bus for a minor visitors violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse group on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, together with suitcases with drug-sniffing canines.

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

The group was returning house from a recreation in Florida and touring by a contracted bus, in response to Allen.

Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman held a information convention concerning the incident but took no questions. He claimed that no private gadgets on the bus were searched.

Physique digicam video obtained by WTOC, nevertheless, clearly showed the deputies going via the students’ luggage and even remedy.

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

“They didn’t actually ask us,” mentioned Sydney Anderson, a Delaware State Lacrosse Player. “They knowledgeable us of what they’re gonna do and nobody questioned them...we just let them rattle by our stuff.”

A participant on the bus requested: “How did we go from being in the wrong lane to going via our bags?”

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 in 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 additionally added the following:

“We do not intend to let this or every other incident prefer it cross idly by. We're ready to go wherever the evidence leads us. We have now video. We have now allies. Perhaps extra significantly, now we have the braveness of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his assertion by writing, “We are going to never be bullied into believing anything other than what we're: Individuals, learners, teachers, builders—useful and honorable folks ready to soar.”

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