Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse group’s personal objects, physique camera reveals in any other case

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

WTOC stories 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 traffic violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse workforce 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,” stated a Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy.

The group was returning home from a recreation in Florida and traveling by a contracted bus, based on Allen.

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

Body digicam video obtained by WTOC, however, clearly showed the deputies going by means of the scholars’ luggage and even medicine.

The university president wrote in his statement that videos taken by players showed legislation enforcement attempting to intimidate them into confessing to possession of medicine and/or drug paraphernalia.

“They didn’t really ask us,” said Sydney Anderson, a Delaware State Lacrosse Participant. “They informed us of what they’re gonna do and no one questioned them...we just let them rattle via our stuff.”

A player on the bus asked: “How did we go from being within the mistaken lane to going via our baggage?”

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

Nothing unlawful was found within the search, and Allen knowledgeable the general public that he has contacted Delaware’s governor, the Black Caucus and other state officials.

Allen wrote that everyone was incensed over the incident.

Allen also added the next:

“We do not intend to let this or every other incident prefer it go idly by. We are prepared to go wherever the proof leads us. We now have video. We now have allies. Perhaps more considerably, we've the courage of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his statement by writing, “We'll by no means be bullied into believing anything other than what we are: Americans, learners, academics, builders—useful and honorable folks able to soar.”

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