Biff_Poindexter
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Delaware State University 'incensed' after lacrosse team's bus searched in Georgia
The Delaware State University women’s lacrosse team feels traumatized after its charter bus was stopped by police while traveling through Georgia.
www.usatoday.com
"A college 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." Bus driver Tim Jones was initially told he was improperly traveling in the left lane when the bus was pulled over, 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? 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."
Since the initial reporting on this story, both US Senators of Delaware has weighed in on this, the Governor of Delaware has weighed in and the president of Delaware State has vowed not to let this go idly by.... this story has also just gotten more and more fishy to me...like the the part about how the sherrif's deputy claims they never searched any of the student's personal belongings...
"Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman defended the stop. Bowman said Tuesday that "no personal items on the bus or person(s) were searched" – negating the accounts of multiple people on the bus."
This is Sheriff Bowman by the way....
I find that hard to believe if you searched thru the players and coaches bags and luggage; how is that not searching their personal belongings?? And all done without a warrant.....including one incident in which a personal gift to one of the students was searched.....
"At one point, a deputy stepped onto the bus holding a gift-wrapped box and summoned the person whose name was on it – senior Aniya Aiken, who happens to be from Decatur, Georgia. It was from family members who’d seen the team play at Kennesaw State. Asked what was inside, Aiken said she was told by her aunt not to open the gift until she got back to campus. "He said ‘You accepted something and you don’t know what it is?’ " Jenkins said
Yes dumb ass, that is usually how gifts work.....needless to say they ripped open the student's gift and what do you know, absolutely no drugs or human trafficking was found inside..who would've thunk it....The gift was actually a graduation present from the student's Aunt -- since that student was graduating this year....but it was the assumption of guilt placed on those players and coaches that is the most infuriating -- and if you blow this off under the belief "oh this will never happen to me" -- or "Hey, i don't mind having my belongings searched" -- then you need to politely take all of those "don't tread on me" flags and bumper stickers -- and shove them up Uranus....
