“…personal belongings …were not searched”. What part of opening bags, looking at medication, opening people’s gifts, and other belongings actually isn’t personal? I would really like somebody to explain to me how they can just go from a traffic stop to searching people’s belongings like that without consent on anyone’s part. And I would like the Sheriff to explain how searching people’s bags isn’t in fact a violation of their 4th amendment rights or in any way resembles the statement he gave the Press? The comment made between the Deputies is all you need to know about why this occurred and the degree of ignorance these Deputies possess about women athletes (“school girls”). This whole stop was about the Deputies wanting to feel successful at finding a big haul of drugs. If you listen to the bodycam footage there was a ton of wind there. How does a drug dog successfully indicate a presence of drugs in that environment? Or do people think he was trained to indicate on command to give probable cause?
@Susan Bailey::: That must be a super dog to smell drugs while just a few feet away cars are wising by, the wind is blowing, and the bus is running to include the AC unit while emitting diesel fumes.
No personal belongings "ON THE BUS" (meaning in the passenger area) were searched. Personal belongings WERE searched. Just not the ones on the bus. Great example of cop-splaining.
Do you know how many buses 🚌..🚌's travel up and down the road 🛣️, freeways daily..?? That guy should be demoted immediately... What next..?? Stop every #greyhoundbus ?? SMH 🤔😯🤣
The way that "Sheriff" stumbled thru that speech it seems obviously written by someone for him, not one word sounded sincere..so sick of disrespectful cops
Absolutely… all the deputies on that bus were two of them sounded like they barely had a middle school education. HOWEVER out comes the black Sheriff reading a prepared statement. Saw the same thing in Louisiana when several white State Troopers beat and dragged a black man who led them on a high speed chase. They lied on their report stating the man hit a tree. After the dust settled and the media knew this whole thing was a lie out comes a black deputy at a press conference repeating the same lie.
I can hear the cops now, "We searched a bus full of black people, young black people and we didn't find a single illegal drug! I don't believe this! What is the world coming to!" I know they are freaking out especially with all the negative publicity this is generating. I think the chief better watch out, he may be the sacrificial lamb.
@@baileybutterfly320 right....It was just something demeaning about that Interaction almost If he knew It wasn't drugs but just to have power control he continued his antics I felt that emotionally.
@@preamstream ::: That cop is acting like relatives are not supposed to trust each other. If my relative give me a gift and request I not open it until a certain date, I would follow their desire. Why should I believe they are using me as a mule?
@@MehShona And killing a child is okay? You have as much choice as a man does. It might be your body but its another human you are murdering. Obviously, there are exceptions...but just murdering a baby because 'MUH BODY' isn't an excuse.
The "large amounts of money" comment struck me, as so-called "civil asset forfeiture" is literally legalized highway robbery by police. If you get pulled over for a traffic violation and the police ask you if you have large sums of cash with you, they are looking to steal that money under the presumption that you are somehow involved in illicit activities. You can have receipts, bank statements, doesn't matter. Our fourth amendment rights in this country have been so denuded over the decades that police can rob us and be rewarded for it.
It is so infuriating that this still happens in GA! What about the drugs they plant during stops like these? Assigning folks a GA drivers license and address WHO NEVER LIVED IN THE STATE just to revoke it, which revokes their license in every other state!
This is so wrong in every way. The deputy was talking to the students in the beginning as if he was 100% sure that they will find drugs on the bus. That is exactly what is wrong in this case, they made up their mind just by looking at a bus and its passengers.
@2:38 "No personal items were searched on the bus" Yet the cops are seen,ON CAMERA, going through everyone's backpacks. Last I heard, backpacks are PERSONAL PROPERTY!! That's a 4th amendment breach right there. No warrants, no search! They opened one girls giftwrapped present from her aunt. Cop said that's what they look for! The sheriff FLAT OUT LIED!!!!!!
Absolutely! Each search is a fourth amendment violation against each person by each officer. The amount this department and municipality is going to pay will bankrupt them. Each count should cost them not less than !0 million dollars.
My problem is he was accusing the young ladies of a crime before he even had any evidence ... "you better tell me now before I find it" how about one of your partners do that to your son's team
KLK…you’re right. From the get go officers had targeted the bus. If it wasn’t for the body cams I am sure the officers would have sneak something in their luggages.
@@dfaro8453 that's what if feels like the way he was talking on the radio... Tranquila quieta tato, now everyone knows who he really is behind close doors
@@lovely0482 yes indeed. The school has evidences that their students were profiled by the cops and I am sure some type of settlement will come. However, the way that black chief was talking, I am going to assume none of those cops will be discharge or discipline. Hey I would like to let you know that I am in DR visiting for the pass 3 months and I am having a lot of fun in your country. That’s why I had responded with KLK 😉
What is going on in Georgia? Are these routes for major drug trafficking? Are there statistics showing there are numerous drug busts, as a result of a traffic stop, along these routes? I don't know, maybe there is are a lot of drugs traveling north from Florida?
I grew up hearing stories about racially motivated police discrimination, as well as witnessing it. After I left “the hood”, I encountered many whites that dismissed it all, and that was largely because that didn’t seem to think that police could act that way. Well, today, it is in full view.
Worked with a white woman who refused to believe that cops did this until we were going to lunch one day and got stopped and approached by the police with their guns drawn. Why were we stopped, she was laughing and they thought she was being held against her will and was under duress. They didn't want to believe her when she told them we were coworkers on our way to lunch and she was fine.
That’s why ALL POLICE OFFICERS SHOULD HAVE BODY CAMERAS!!! If their camera isn’t on then they should be treated like suspects. I have very little trust in anything they say with the amount of proven LIES they continue to tell.
I am simply SICK!!! Perfectly said, this is so wrong on so many levels. God bless those young ladies. They are getting their education and involved in sports at its well. I wish them the best. The school and community needs to fight this 🙏💕
This was a total violation of the 4th Amendment. There was no reasonable articulable suspension to warrant a search of the vehicle. And cops wonder why they are not respected.
F'ING UNBELIEVABLE!!! If I had not seen this with my own eyes, I would have given the Georgia State Troopers the benefit of the doubt. After this, I am honestly hurt by it. It is disheartening, at best.
I don't care WHY they did it, THOSE COPS WERE WRONG! I would be so LIVID if my property was searched for absolutely no reason! Sue the crap out of them! This story makes me very angry.
And the girls on that bus were very calm and non-confrontational, they didn't raise a stink about it at all and yet they were still discriminated against. Very wrong. Felt so sorry for that girl with a gift from her aunt
SOOOOO WRONG!!!!!!! This is a blantent violation of rights!!! So so wrong. They need a warrant!!! They need a warrant to do anything more than a simple stop & frisk. Even a stop and frisk needs reasonable suspicion. They didn't have ANYTHING close to probable cause. These students were violated. Period.
Ga deputies need to do better than messing with the black female lacrosse team, them ladies play sports, not handle drugs for any drug runners that they know, them deputies know better than that.
@@lydiapresident5291 Police do extreme gaslighting. Believe what we tell you, not your eyes or ears or even experience. Back the blue until it happens to you or a loved one.
The sheriff already announced his findings. His officers acted appropriately. He thinks they should be commended for not writing the driver a summons for driving in the left lane.
@@lukedermott1589 like I said! They did no investigation. That’s the typical textbook response. They said they’ll investigate. Have us wait around! Then come back with the same excuse acting like they actually did some work. Been seeing that done for years. Yawn 🥱 zzzzz😴
They assumed they had drugs just cause they’re“school girls”. That dog didn’t indicate on anything and if they did it’s because it’s trained to indicate on command.
The officer literally asked the girl who received a WRAPPED gift from her aunt....”well did she tell you what it is?? Who gave it to you??” Clearly not listening and stuck on finding them guilty.
Oh he was listening alright, He was hoping she would say something different the second time. which would then be probable cause to search. But he searched anyway...
Don’t say a word to them. The deputy employees were very disingenuous and spoke to them like they were STUPID. The question of a traffic violation to a search is illegal.
@@itsintheword2818 You're right. EVERYONE has heard of the college lacrosse team smuggling scheme. I believe it's the most effective way of transporting drugs across America without getting caught. I'm not completely clear how it fits in with human trafficking, but am certain these wonderful officers of the law are within an ace of solving this conundrum too.
@@itsintheword2818 So they were right? How much money did they find? How much drugs? Did they sniff some panties? You know, to make sure they didn't smell like drugs? Questioning a gift with zero probable cause. They violated the 4th ammendment with that search.
So they’re not looking for a little bit of marijuana, but they are absolutely fine with someone getting caught with a little bit of marijuana and potentially getting kicked out of school. Do you think they’re really doing anything beneficial for any of these college students? Unbelievable. Just ruining peoples lives just because.
He straight up said "it's a bunch of school girls, they probably got weed" to dispatch right before pulling them over! So you know that he WAS in fact looking for a big of Marijuana BECAUSE these were "school girls!" So clearly he didn't care if they'd be kicked off the team or outta school. But Then he said the windows were tinted and too dark to see into, so that raised suspicion 🙄 Well which was it you lying liar? It can't be both!
False. I'm a commercial driver. If the signs say no buses in left lane then that's what it is. "BUT" there is no signs on that stretch of interstate 95 that says that. Mile marker 73 is about 45 miles or so South of Savannah. Give or take a few miles.
That was probably a cover story. He didn't go into any details about the other stops. He saw that driver and came up with a b.S. reason as to their real motive
To the commanding officer in this video: What you just said about the personal belongings of innocent teenage girls was not searched when, according to the video, those personal belongings were obviously searched. In fact, you should order all of your fellow officers to go through extensive retraining so that things like what happened to the all-girl lacrosse team NEVER happens again.
There was no probable cause - no smell of marijuana, nothing to point to illegal activities going on. Their 4th amendment rights was obviously infringed upon. There was no consent to search or open gifts/personal effects.
"after around 20 minutes of searching, deputies find NO CONTRABAND." So after falsely accusing them of having drugs, you just forced two dozen people to give up their time/privacy for NOTHING.
@@itsintheword2818 you don’t search a vehicle If you don’t suspect something. If they didn’t suspect anyone on the bus of possessing narcotics as you say, The search would be that much more dubious. Searching without suspicion is a to b, By strict definition a "warrantless” search. If no one is suspect then there is no reasonable suspicion. There should be no search.
@@itsintheword2818 They had no probable cause to search that bus. Go back and listen to the question the young lady asked the cop at 1:01 and listen to the Irrelevant answer he gives.
There was NO Probable Cause to search that bus.... NONE.... if the University sues they will likely win... the problem is that the Sheriff doesn't see anything wrong with it and no matter the result of the potential law suit, they won't face ANY consequences nor change their behavior one bit.
@@deangulberry871 Right, that worked to well for George Floyd, Tamar Rice, and the many others the police have killed or injured because they are racists on power trips.
I'm willing to bet that there wasn't even a actual left lane violation. I bet they made up the reason to pull them over just like i'm willing to bet at least 75% of the people they pulled over for "interdiction" were on false pretenses...
If there was such a violation, they never bothered to give the driver a ticket. Probably realized they were in trouble when they didn't find anything and thought they could sweep it under the rug.
I don't know. It's so easy to get pulled over. How many people change lanes without using signals or cars following to close, driving over the speed limit... I mean we see it every day. It's easy to get stopped.
I sure hope I get to serve on the jury when this lawsuit gets in a court room. I would award each of the passengers on the bus $1 million each for this illegal warrantless search.
Rifling through ladies' bags is outrageous. It's also unconstitutional: this was an illegal search and seizure under the 4th Amendment. The DOJ needs to get involved and invoke a Consent Decree over the wanton violation of civil rights, because the Sheriff himself admitted that this blatant pretext -- is actually just their, "protocol."
If the driver made a traffic violation you give him a ticket and the bus continued on but to search for drugs on a bus full of athletes and search their luggage, that is the reason African Americans don't trust law enforcement officials, false accusations, the way this was handled by the police officers was completely illegal the players rights were violated. The department needs a review of its policies and retraining of it's officers. They were wrong with how they handled this.
The sheriff had an invalid traffic stop. Even if they found drugs the bus the whole case would be thrown out because the pretext of the stop was invalid. The bus is exempt from the GA CMV left lane law.
Did they even have a search warrant??? This is just insane! They opened a present from that girls aunt?!? Protocol?!?! When did warrantless searches become protocol???
@@Matt-xc6sp Okay, let me get this straight. Are you suggesting that these women should have pulled out their rifles and begun marching to physically guarantee their rights?
@@davidsnyder3799 Yes. Armed non violent protest for civil rights used to be a thing. It was then Governor Reagan that started California’s love affair with gun control because of the Black Panthers.
White male 30-year Texas police officer here I think this traffic stop was pretty ridiculous and just because it appears to me if I have this right there was a black police administrator washing this over that doesn't wash with me the problem I have I don't have a problem with them stopping him for a lane violation but I do have a problem with their accusatory language and demeanor when speaking with the people on the bus like we're going to find something and look they left with their tail between their legs they didn't find anything if 30 years and please work has taught me anything you don't assume that you're going to catch somebody in the act things aren't always as they appear and you never know who you're dealing with and in my view they were never going to find large amounts of drugs or cash on that bus that goes pretty much without saying although there is a remote possibility I'm not seeing it Even if someone on that bus did have some narcotics or paraphernalia of some kind it's going to be such a small amount it's not going to be worth wasting your time it would be recreational use at best but look that didn't even happen so now they look stupid and they were talking down to these kids and then they did violate the 4th amendment they didn't have probable cause to open that girl's package it was sealed up they needed a warrant for that and we never saw that dog sit down to alert that there was drugs on that bus and even if he did they didn't find anything that doesn't look good for the dog maybe that dog needs to be put out of service and I have one more thing to say about police dogs We have I think it is seven or eight police dogs at my department I don't know how well they do when it comes to finding drugs and stuff I don't think we have a drug dog anymore and I'm not around the dogs that much really at all in the last number of years haven't had any interaction with them but I think police work really needs to reconsider not using drug dogs because I think they're highly inaccurate and their subject to maybe wanting to please their trainer their partner and I think it's too easy for the person of the team the police officer to indicate that he wants the dog to alert now if it's a patrol dog that bites that's a different thing sometimes that's a good thing because a patrol dog can be a backup partner for his human but drug dogs I'm not seeing it I think they can be abused way too easily and that may have been the case here with this bus
They were pulled over for "Driving in the left lane". The law is, driving in the left lane with more than six axels. The last time I checked, a bus only has three axels.
B.S stops like this is exactly why I didn't want to be a cop,harassing,humiliating and tormenting,innocent citizens.I chose to volunteer to go fight insurgents in Iraq with the Texas National Guard(4 deployments)instead of becoming a cop. SEMPER-Fi.
While you are protecting our freedom and rights outside the U.S. with your life we have the narcissist, psychopaths taking away legally (mostly illegally and protected). Infuriating so many great men and women’s of all colors and nationality lives lost in our military so we can live safely. I love the U.S.A but fear and sadness takes over from racial profiling and more.
When I first saw this I was appalled, incensed and heartbroken. I immediately thought of the "freedom riders" who bravely drove through the Deep South in the 60s'; they expected this type of behavior and even worse. The bus in Meridian, MS was firebombed and another group was imprisoned in Mississippi's state penitentiary. The sheriff's response was pitiful. Buses with SEC team logos ride through Georgia all the time, and I'm convinced that none have ever been stopped and exposed to this type of harassment.
My thoughts EXACTLY - their supervisor said it's normal protocol but I'm sure it has racism written all over it, once they saw the students/chaperones, driver
I can see no earthly reason to search the passengers on a bus because the driver drove in the wrong lane. Missing children? Massive amounts of money, marijuana, cocaine or anything else. This was an egregious overstep.
OFFICER: What's this box? STUDENT: It's a gift from my aunt, in Georgia. OFFICER: What's inside it? STUDENT: I don't know, it's a gift. OFFICER: Where did you get it from? STUDENT: From my aunt. In Georgia. OFFICER: She didn't tell you what's inside? STUDENT: No, it's a gift. How about adding a Common Sense Test to their police "training". 😖😖
You wouldn't win. You cannot prove his racial profiling, they did not physically search any of the girls, they did a routine traffic stop and search just like they do any other citizen. Imagine if you were a police officer and you knew of a road that was a high traffic area and because of the increase of crime in your city you know where the drugs are being piped through, you would do the exact same search no matter the skin color.
Nope! Sorry, we fully support Tony Allen and Delaware State University! This is wrong, it is 2022. Fear is real and they had no right to search! This is traumatic!!
what a bunch of thugs... finds a wrapped box.. "this is what we're looking for" - turns out it's a dictionary.. maybe he should take that as a omen and improve his ignorance..
This team got extremely lucky...they are fortunate that those cops didn't plant anything on them! If I was the coach I would have gotten off that bus and filmed the seArch...now that might have escalated things but better to be safe than sorry
@@norml.hugh-mann that's why I would have gotten off that bus and filmed in the wide open..bus have dark tints plus the height of the bus. Its a better view out side the bus.they could have easily planted something ..if the dog hit why they didn't search the entire bus..pull everybody off and let tHe the dogs go through the whole bus. I say they just wanted to rummage through some black female teenagers clothes and under garments..lol lol..if you were a woman who would want to wear clothes and under garments after strange men have had their grubby fingers and hands all over them....I'm just saying ..lol
That officer was soooo pressed for that girl's gift from her aunt! It was a gift to a student from her aunt. They are a college team! Move on. He must've been really bored that day.
The left lane violation should have been the only issue if this was indeed the case. To turn it into a school bus detailed drug search to which nothing was found is total overkill, plus their chief defended it. What happened to “probable cause” !!!!!!!!!
That was completely illegal what they did. The bullies with badges saw a bus full of black students and knew nobody would stop their ILLEGAL search and guess what? THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT!! This sh!t needs to stop!
What was the probable cause for searching the bus? A traffic violation is one thing. But it leading to searching the bus and thinking they automatically had the authority to search because they had already pulled the bus over isn't probable cause. The only possible cause is that the freeway is considered a forfeiture corridor. And that assumption is likely since they mentioned several cars were stopped. But that is called profiling. Not necessarily racial profiling, but generally profiling. If you're ever stopped for drugs and they insist on using dogs, be adamant that the cops must not encourage the dog! A properly trained dog does not need coaxing.
Athletes....dedicated college athletes.. because they absolutely are for sure carrying a ton of drugs with them..🙄 that cop on the bus sounded like an idiot.
Highly possible that they have mandatory drug tests too. Male officers searching luggage belonging to a female without her directly witnessing it is another red flag. Those cops were arseholes.
I’m glad Delaware is holding Georgia to account. That Sheriff is a joke. These small towns in Georgia use the highway as a means to bulk up their budgets not protect us. It’s time this stops
