“Due to the nature of the detail, a K-9 was part of the stop and an alert was given by the K-9,” Bowman said. “Before entering the motorcoach, the 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 the tinted windows.”
Bowman also said that no personal items on the bus were searched. The body camera footage shows the deputies searching through the students' personal items however. “It went from two officers to six officers and they brought out their K-9,” Anderson told NBC10. “They started smelling our bags. Going through everything. Our personal hygiene like underwear and everything in the bags and they did that for about twenty minutes.” "There was misinformation that the individuals were searched. No players were searched and the K9 never entered the vehicle to search them," Bowman wrote."Only the front luggage area was checked.
“As a veteran, a former Georgia State Trooper and a sheriff of this department, I do not exercise racial profiling, allow racial profiling or encourage racial profiling,” Bowman said. “From what I have gathered, I believe that the stop was legal, but I also understand my duty to help the public understand law enforcement while seeking ways to improve services.”
In a statement on Wednesday, Allen said Bowman spoke with him about reaching out to the DSU lacrosse team to help the department in"improving its approach to people of color."
One more reason that marijuana needs to be legal nationwide.
We all know a bus full of black people has to have at least one individual with drugs or paraphernalia /sarcasm LEO looks forward to acquisition of monies or property via civil asset forfeiture.
The GA police couldn’t have just spoken 2 the bus driver abt which lane he needed 2 be in? Why the assumption drugs would be found? Were the personal belongings of the people in any of the other vehicles pulled over also searched or do the GA police only search school girls?