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.
Paulette Dillard, president of the Raleigh, North Carolina, university, has alleged that students were improperly searched during a traffic stop in Spartanburg County.
“(T)his scene is reminiscent of the 1950s and 1960s — armed police, interrogating innocent Black students, conducting searches without probable cause, and blood-thirsty dogs. It’s hard to imagine. Yet, it happened to the Shaw University community, and it is happening throughout this nation in alarming fashion. It must be stopped,” she said in a statement.
