Delaware State University 'incensed' after lacrosse team's bus searched in Georgia

[Jilly_in_VA]

Acollege women's lacrosse team feels traumatized after its charter bus was stopped by police while traveling through Georgia, an incident that has left the school's president "incensed."

The Delaware State University women’s lacrosse team was traveling north on I-95 in Liberty County, Georgia, southwest of Savannah, on April 20. The Hornets were returning home after playing their final game of the season at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, on April 19.

Bus driver Tim Jones was initially told he was improperly traveling in the left lane when the bus was pulled over, according to DSU’s student publication The Hornet Newspaper and its website thehornetonline.com. The incident was first detailed there in a story that published Friday written by Sydney Anderson, a sophomore lacrosse player who was on the bus.

Video accompanying the story taken by DSU player Saniya Craft shows an officer saying, "If there is anything in y’all’s luggage, we’re probably gonna find it, OK? I’m not looking for a little bit of marijuana but I’m pretty sure you guys’ chaperones are probably gonna be disappointed in you if we find any."

By that time, Liberty County Sheriff’s Office deputies had begun removing players’ bags from the vehicle’s cargo bay to search after asking Jones to open it. Police had a drug-sniffing dog at the scene.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/delaware-state-university-incensed-after-lacrosse-team-s-bus-searched-in-georgia/ar-AAX6xv9

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Buh Muh Freedom

Get used to this, Red states are going to be no go zones for travel soon. They're going to be giving forced pregnancy tests on stops like this soon and taking into custody anyone who is pregnant and holding them until they can be forced to give birth under the watchful eye of the government.

[exboyfil]

2. Law they used (left lane driving)

applies to trucks and not buses. I think they have a problem if the pretextual stop was tainted.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Quick, give the cops more money so they get it right next time.

[Best_man23]

4. Link to the Bodycam video

DOJ needs to open an investigation of this stop. There were no markings on that bus to indicate it was Delaware State U and like most tour buses, the windows are tinted, so I'm wondering if someone called the cops and reported them as being "suspicious."

I just posted the bodycam video of this incident, link below.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017734903

[SYFROYH]

6. This county is next to mine and its notorious for pulling travelers over.

It's a money maker program for the county. Liberty County is worse than most other GA counties with I-95 going through it.

The Sheriff gave a brief news conference and said that they were pulled others over that day including another bus. This is probably true.

Once pulled over, the sheriff said the drug K-9 alerted even before the deputies boarded the bus. I'm always suspicious of K-9 alerts. It could be true or not.

The Sheriff also said that no personal items were searched, but the videos from the students showed them going through bags.

[Jilly_in_VA]

11. Drug dogs are now starting to be classified as "junk science"

along with cadaver dogs. Seems their handlers can signal them to "alert". (Cadaver dogs, OTOH, can apparently alert to dead anything.)

[mainer]

5. Hope the students watched the search

Those officers could plant drugs if they’re determined enough to arrest someone.

[usonian]

7. I am REALLY SURPRISED that the cops let dogs do the sniffing.

They could have used a gas chromatograph, of course.

[Danmel]

8. Delaware State is an Historically Black College

I cannot imagine that would have happened to a bus filled with white young women.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. A tragedy waiting to happen when the

Police don’t k ow their own laws!

[Torchlight]

10. Sanctimonious little gatekeepers of a past world

These little fellas really want to see the country regress to 1850. Gun in one hand, sanctimony in the other, and incapable of conversation beyond one sentence at a time.

My guess is self-important buffoons like those deputies really needed more hugs growing up.

[Jilly_in_VA]

12. The Delaware governor has denounce the search as "upsetting and concerning"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/delaware-governor-carney-police-georgia-hbcu-lacrosse-team

John Carney, a Democrat, released a statement about the incident, in which police officers searched the bus carrying the Delaware State University women’s lacrosse team after stopping the driver for a traffic violation.

“I have watched video of this incident – it is upsetting, concerning and disappointing,” Carney said.

“Moments like these should be relegated to part of our country’s complicated history, but they continue to occur with sad regularity in communities across our country. It’s especially hard when it impacts our own community.”