An April 20 traffic stop of the Delaware State University women’s lacrosse team’s bus in Georgia, which resulted in a full search of the players’ luggage, has drawn the attention of Delaware’s governor and sparked outrage from school administrators.
The team was returning from a road game in Florida against Stetson University on I-95 when the bus was pulled over by deputies in Liberty County, Georgia. Officers said the bus was improperly traveling in the left lane.
Once on the bus, a Liberty County Sheriff’s Office deputy announced that deputies were going to search the team member’s luggage and warned them to let him know ahead of time if they had any marijuana in their belongings. The deputies employed the use of drug-sniffing dogs in their search.
The deputies in the video of the incident posted online are white, and the majority of the players on the team are black.
DSU President Tony Allen informed the university community about the incident in a letter early Monday. In it, Allen said DSU has informed Delaware Gov. John Carney, the state Attorney General’s Office, Delaware’s congressional delegation and the Congressional Black Caucus about the incident .
