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Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
Wed May 11, 2022, 11:10 AM May 2022

This is OUTRAGEOUS! HBCU Women's Lacrosse Team Bus stopped and searched in Georgia




God damn fucking Redneck Racist Georgia State Police. Institutional Racism IS Systemic and alive and well and kicking in the USA - once again this proves it.

How long are WE going to allow this to happen? The future is what WE make it - it DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




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Scrivener7

(51,059 posts)
1. After that, anyone who goes to or through Georgia for business or pleasure is a fool.
Wed May 11, 2022, 11:11 AM
May 2022

Sorry to all the Democrats who live there, but it's a fact.

I have a Biden sticker on my car. There are a lot of states I won't enter.

hlthe2b

(102,448 posts)
3. Feds need to get involved. This was I-95, an interstate highway and
Wed May 11, 2022, 11:20 AM
May 2022

these cretins were obstructing interstate movement sans any valid, justifiable cause of action.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
4. Damn right. This is a Civil Rights Violation and those troopers and their boss need to be fired.
Wed May 11, 2022, 11:35 AM
May 2022

But first lets shame them endlessly and remorselessly via Social Media.

BumRushDaShow

(129,746 posts)
6. This is why my mother
Wed May 11, 2022, 11:35 AM
May 2022

refused to go "below the Mason-Dixon line" and made a point to say it every chance she could.

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
9. I always said that and then the job my husband took 20 years ago was in the south.
Wed May 11, 2022, 11:41 AM
May 2022

It has been an experience to be sure. He plopped a northern, liberated Democratic woman in bright red Oklahoma. I have his promise that the day after his retirement we are out of dodge.

woodsprite

(11,934 posts)
12. Luckily, one of the player's dad is a civil rights attorney out of Chicago and she called him
Wed May 11, 2022, 11:52 AM
May 2022

Then handed the phone to their coach.

Here's the link to the Delaware Online article:

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2022/05/11/delaware-state-lacrosse-team-bus-search-georgia/9721348002/

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