Newly released body camera footage of Georgia deputies stopping a majority-Black lacrosse team's bus shows the officers rifling through the players’ personal items — after the sheriff asserted the deputies did no such thing. - NBCBLK
's bus shows the officers rifling through the players’ personal items — after the sheriff asserted the deputies did no such thing.
“It gives me a sense of relief so that everybody else can see what they did to us and how we felt in that moment,” said Anderson, a rising junior. “They were searching through our belongings and luggage for 20 minutes. I remember them going through my friend’s and she was saying, ‘That’s my bag,’ and they were looking through her panties.”
“I’m not looking for a little bit of marijuana, but I’m pretty sure you guys’ chaperones are probably gonna be disappointed in you if we find any,” one deputy is heard saying. “If there is something in there that is questionable, please tell me now because if we find it, guess what? We’re not gonna be able to help you.”
Anderson said she believed the officers were determined to find drugs on the players, but she and her teammates would never jeopardize their futures by violating the NCAA’s drug rules, she said. The entire ordeal lasted about 35 minutes and, Anderson said, left her hesitant to return to Georgia.
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