North Carolina HBCU leader 'outraged' after bus of Black students stopped in SC [View all]

Source: News & Observer

North Carolina HBCU leader ‘outraged’ after bus of Black students stopped in SC

BY COLLEEN HAMMOND
UPDATED OCTOBER 11, 2022 1:20 PM

The president of Shaw University is speaking out after what she called an “unfair and unjust” traffic stop involving students of the historically Black university.

On Monday, Shaw President Paulette Dillard released a statement saying students from the university in Raleigh were subjected to a racially motivated police encounter on a South Carolina highway while traveling to a conference.

Last Wednesday, 18 students and two advisers were traveling by bus from Raleigh to Atlanta to attend the Center for Financial Advancement Conference, according to Dillard’s statement.

While driving through Spartanburg County, South Carolina, the bus was stopped for a “minor traffic violation,” Dillard said in the statement.

Multiple officers and drug-sniffing dogs then boarded the bus and began searching the students and advisers, she continued.

“To be clear, nothing illegal was discovered in this search by South Carolina law enforcement officers,” Dillard said.

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