The women’s lacrosse team for Delaware State University, a historically Black university, was heading home last month after playing three games in Florida when Georgia police interrupted their journey — with a drug-sniffing dog.
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.
In his statement, Allen wrote that he is “incensed” by the encounter and that he is investigating it with Delaware State’s general counsel and athletic director.
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