Paulette Dillard, president of North Carolina's Shaw University, has alleged that students were improperly searched during a traffic stop in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
A group of North Carolina lawmakers has called for a U.S. Justice Department investigation into two deputies’ traffic stop of a bus carrying students from Shaw University, a historically Black university.
Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said in a news conference Monday everything the president said was untrue.Operation Rolling Thunder, “They could not see in the bus,” he said, adding that officers and the driver had a cordial conversation. They asked to inspect the cargo hold and the driver opened it, Wright said.
“We write to urge you to conduct an expedited and independent review of the unfounded search of 18 Shaw University students earlier this month, as well as a pattern-of-practice investigation of the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, which conducted the search,” the letter said. The letter said the Congress members were “deeply troubled by this unfounded search of Shaw students.”
The officer Brian Blalock was fired in 2012 after a physical confrontation with an inmate. The parties settled that suit, but the details were not released.
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