Body camera footage contradicts sheriff's account of how deputies acted on Delaware State lacrosse b
In a public address, Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman said "no personal items on the bus or person(s) were searched" during the April 20 stop. But the bodycam footage, which Delaware Online/The (Wilmington) News Journal has obtained and made publicly available without editing, shows deputies rifling through players' backpacks and bags – something those on the bus have said for days.
Bowman also said the stop was not racial profiling because "before entering the motorcoach, deputies were not aware that this school was historically Black or aware of the race of the occupants due to the height of the vehicle and tint of the windows."
However, the footage shows bus driver Tim Jones, who is Black, exiting the bus to speak with the deputy who initially stopped the vehicle. He tells the deputy that the bus is a women's lacrosse team headed back to Delaware, though does not mention the school or that it is a Historically Black College and University.
The charter bus with large tinted windows had no outside markings but does have a Delaware license plate.
After the deputy first walks onto the bus, a team member sitting behind coach Pamella Jenkins asks, “How do we go from being in the wrong lane to going through our bags . . . ?” She is told by a deputy already on board that a dog can be brought out to search for narcotics while the deputy who pulled over the bus “is conducting his business.”
Passengers are then told the reason for the stop, the deputy saying, “This is what we do.” He then describes how their job is to stop commercial vehicles because drugs, “large amounts of money” and children being trafficked may be on board.
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