Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse crew’s personal objects, body digicam shows otherwise

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

WTOC stories Delaware State University President Tony Allen released 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 visitors violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse team on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, including suitcases with drug-sniffing canines.

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

The group was returning home from a recreation in Florida and touring by a contracted bus, in line with Allen.

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

Body camera video obtained by WTOC, nevertheless, clearly showed the deputies going by way of the students’ baggage and even remedy.

The college president wrote in his statement that movies taken by gamers showed regulation enforcement making an attempt 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 Participant. “They knowledgeable us of what they’re gonna do and no one questioned them...we simply let them rattle through our stuff.”

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

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

Nothing unlawful was found within 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 next:

“We do not intend to let this or some other incident like it move idly by. We're ready to go wherever the proof leads us. Now we have video. We've got allies. Perhaps extra significantly, we've got the courage of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his statement by writing, “We'll never be bullied into believing something other than what we are: Americans, learners, teachers, builders—helpful and honorable individuals able to soar.”

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