Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse team’s personal objects, body digital camera exhibits otherwise

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

WTOC stories Delaware State College President Tony Allen released a statement on Monday responding to the incident that reportedly occurred on April 20 in Liberty County.

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

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

The staff was returning house from a game in Florida and touring by a contracted bus, in accordance with Allen.

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

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

The university president wrote in his statement that videos taken by gamers showed law enforcement trying 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 Player. “They knowledgeable us of what they’re gonna do and no one questioned them...we just let them rattle by our stuff.”

A player on the bus requested: “How did we go from being in the improper lane to going by our luggage?”

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

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

Allen wrote that everybody was incensed over the incident.

Allen additionally added the next:

“We do not intend to let this or any other incident like it move idly by. We're prepared to go wherever the proof leads us. We've got video. We have allies. Maybe extra significantly, 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 anything apart from what we are: Americans, learners, lecturers, builders—helpful and honorable people able to soar.”

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