Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse staff’s personal gadgets, body camera reveals in any other case

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

WTOC studies Delaware State University President Tony Allen launched 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 site visitors violation with the Delaware State Lacrosse team 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 at all,” said a Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy.

The team was returning house from a recreation in Florida and touring by a contracted bus, in keeping with Allen.

Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman held a news convention in regards to the incident but took no questions. He claimed that no private gadgets on the bus have been searched.

Physique digicam video obtained by WTOC, nonetheless, clearly showed the deputies going through the students’ luggage and even medicine.

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

“They didn’t actually ask us,” said Sydney Anderson, a Delaware State Lacrosse Player. “They informed us of what they’re gonna do and nobody questioned them...we just allow them to rattle through our stuff.”

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

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

Nothing illegal was discovered in the search, and Allen knowledgeable the 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 some other incident prefer it pass idly by. We're ready to go wherever the evidence leads us. We've got video. We've allies. Maybe more considerably, we have now the braveness of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his statement by writing, “We will by no means be bullied into believing something apart from what we're: Individuals, learners, academics, builders—useful and honorable folks ready to soar.”

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