Furious black women's lacrosse team accuses white sheriff's deputies of 'racial profiling' after officers rummaged ugh their bags searching for drugs during traffic stop
- Body cam footage showed Liberty County Sheriff's deputies going through the bags of athletes from Delaware State University during a traffic stop on April 20
- The white deputies stopped the bus carrying the all black lacrosse players and conducted a K-9 search after claiming their could be 'weed' onboard
- Footage shows them rummaging through bags and claiming a package appears suspicious, only to find a book safe and a dictionary inside
- The footage appears to contradict the sheriff's statements that no bags were searched as he now says only the front luggage was inspected
- Players claimed the search was spurred by racial profiling, and the state's NAACP chapter has questioned if it was legal
- University officials said they were outraged by the incident and were ready to seek legal action over the incident
Georgia sheriff's deputies have been accused of racial profiling after body cam footage showed them rifling through the bags of an all black women's lacrosse team from Delaware during a traffic stop.
The footage contradicts the sheriff's claim that the athletes' bags were not searched after the team bus was pulled over on Interstate 95 in Liberty County on April 20.
But body cam, posted by Delaware Online on Wednesday, shows the moment the deputies stop the bus before one officer with a K-9 searches the vehicle while the other says: 'There's a bunch of dang schoolgirls on the truck. Probably some weed'.
The officers then proceed to search through the players' bags but come up empty handed.
The incident has sparked outrage from civil rights group and the historically black Delaware State University, who accused the officers of racial profiling.
'We do not intend to let this or any other incident like it pass idly by,' University President Tony Allen said in a statement. We are prepared to go wherever the evidence leads us.
'We have video. We have allies. Perhaps more significantly, we have the courage of our convictions