Sheriff claims deputies didn’t search lacrosse group’s personal gadgets, physique digital camera reveals otherwise

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

WTOC studies Delaware State College President Tony Allen released 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 workforce on board. Deputies searched the belongings of the student-athletes, including suitcases with drug-sniffing canines.

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

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

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

Body camera video obtained by WTOC, nonetheless, clearly showed the deputies going via the students’ baggage and even medicine.

The college president wrote in his assertion that videos taken by gamers showed law enforcement trying 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 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 requested: “How did we go from being within the flawed lane to going by our bags?”

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

Allen wrote that everyone was incensed over the incident.

Allen additionally added the next:

“We don't intend to let this or another incident like it cross idly by. We are prepared to go wherever the proof leads us. We now have video. We now have allies. Maybe more significantly, now we have the braveness of our convictions.”

Allen concluded his assertion by writing, “We are going to never be bullied into believing something aside from what we're: Individuals, learners, academics, builders—helpful and honorable folks able to soar.”

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