Georgia police search HBCU women's lacrosse team for drugs after pulling bus over for a traffic violation. Nothing illegal was found during the search, the school's president said in a statement.
this week that she is “disappointed but not surprised” by the incident and that the team displayed no probable cause for suspicion that any of the members had kept drugs in their luggage.
Officers conducted a 20-minute-long search with the dog, she wrote, before they allowed the team to get back on the road. Shein The Hornet Newspaper, the university’s campus news outlet, that the officers tossed underwear and menstrual products as they went through the luggage and that two officers quickly became six.
“At the time, or even the weeks following, we were not aware that this stop was received as a racial profiling,” Bowman said. “Although I do not believe any racial profiling took place based on the information I currently have, I welcome feedback from our community on ways that our law enforcement practices can be improved while still maintaining the law.”
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