What are they gonna do...send Rambo in at night to shoot up the sheriff's office?
Posted on 05/12/2022 4:00:19 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
A Georgia sheriff says his deputies conducted a highway search of the Delaware State University women’s lacrosse team’s luggage because “an alert was given” by a drug-detecting K9 at the cargo bay of the charter bus.
“A canine sniff of the exterior of a vehicle is not a search under the Fourth Amendment,” Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman stressed during brief remarks outside his office Tuesday. However, the alert does provide probable cause “to search the vehicle,” Bowman said.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that “a dog sniff conducted during a concededly lawful traffic stop that reveals no information other than the location of a substance that no individual has any right to possess does not violate the Fourth Amendment” right against unreasonable search and seizure.
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The south Florida media is running this story with breathless anger.
Coach and black university President says the search was done because the bus was full of black kids.
The sheriff, by the way, is black.
No drugs or paraphernalia was found...but no persons were searched, just items. I am guessing no persons were searched because that would’ve required a search warrant.
Again, the LAW was followed by a black sheriff’s staff....and the Democrats and media cry “racism”.
Garbage.
“Coach and black university President says the search was done because the bus was full of black kids.”
Grow up.
What are they gonna do...send Rambo in at night to shoot up the sheriff's office?
Why were there canines sniffing the bus to begin with? Do they sniff all buses?
If the drug sniffing dog was there why the need to search every piece of luggage? Couldn’t the dog identify those where a hand search was justified?
I don’t know but it was right to search the bus with the dog since it found a signal.
Never been a big fan of the drug sniffing dogs, seems like a circus trick to me, the handler can manipulate the dog into “hitting” on an area of a vehicle or a person.
How could you guys come in here and mess up a perfectly good racist thread by asking logical questions?
Sometimes common sense should prevail. While searching through all this luggage to perhaps find a small baggie of marijuana, how many other crimes occurred? The very slim odds of finding anything and then making some major drug bust were so low as to be non existent. No matter the race or anything else the sheriff who started the search was lazy and looking for something easy. These actions are the very reason why cops in general get a bad rap. This is nonsense plain and simple...
What was I thinking?
“Never been a big fan of the drug sniffing dogs, seems like a circus trick to me, the handler can manipulate the dog into “hitting” on an area of a vehicle or a person.”
Absolutely, with silent hand commands.And to hit on just CASH alone. I have personally witnessed this illegal training.
That’s what I was thinking.
It only bolsters and supports their argument and accusations of racism.
Took a long time for the outrage and trauma to service
” because the bus was full of black kids.”
But but but, the picture showed at least three (3) blonds. I know black don’t come in blond.
Unless there is a little culture appropriation going on here/
This would be the telling fact. If they didn't use the dog to identify a more precise source of the "trigger", it means they were full of it.
Can't trust an article though. They could have deliberately omitted this fact to skew perception.
So I defer judgement until ALL the facts are out.
The given probable cause and reason for a drug dog search:
Driver was travelling in the left lane when it was only permitted to be in the right two lanes. The driver was only issued a warning.
Where is the actual probable cause to suspect drugs and warrant a dog search? No mention of “officer smelled weed” or anything.
This was a garbage search. Stuff like this is one reason many folks - black and white - no longer support the police. So the drug dog “alerted”. From the article:
The deputies even went through players’ underwear, and unwrapped a gift one player had received from a relative in her native Georgia.
Police body camera footage obtained by a Georgia television station showed that one deputy told the others: “It’s a bunch of dang schoolgirls on the bus. It’s probably some weed.”
No marijuana or other drugs were discovered, however.
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