Bus driving HBCU students to conference was targeted when pulled over, university president allegesJulia Jacobo, ABC News wttf.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wttf.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The president of Shaw University, a historically Black North Carolina school, is accusing South Carolina law enforcement officers of racially profiling a busload of students from her university by stopping the vehicle for a minor traffic violation and using drug-sniffing dogs to search their luggage.
(RALEIGH, N.C.) — A bus driving students from a historically Black college to an economic conference was likely targeted when it was pulled over and searched, the university’s president said. Eighteen students of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and two staff advisers were on […]
'Had the students been White, I doubt this detention and search would have occurred,' Shaw University President Dr. Paulette Dillard said of the incident.