Shaw University Paulette Dillard released a statement saying 18 students were riding a charter bus on a trip on Oct. 5th when authorities in Spartanburg County stopped the driver for a minor traffic violation, according to reports.
Students of a historically Black university in North Carolina where stopped and searched in South Carolina while riding to an economic conference in Atlanta, according to the university's president.
Dillard said authorities used drug-sniffing dogs to stop and search the students, and the university president believes they were racially profiled."Traveling by contract bus, South Carolina Law Enforcement stopped the team in Spartanburg County under the pretext of a minor traffic violation. A couple of officers boarded the bus and asked the driver where he was headed.
To be clear, nothing illegal was discovered in this search by South Carolina Law Enforcement officers. The officers said they stopped the bus because it was swerving and issued the driver a warning ticket for "improper lane use." Throughout this unnerving and potentially dangerous situation, our students and staff conducted themselves calmly and with tremendous restraint.
Our students stood tall amid an unnerving and humiliating experience and because of their dignified and professional response, the situation did not escalate into something far more sinister."that the students were heading to the Center for Financial Advancement Conference, which was taking place in Atlanta.
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