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Delaware State to file formal complaint of racial bias in lacrosse bus stop incident. Here's why the team's story is so jarring.

Even for someone who has designs on a career in filmmaking, Gwenna Gentle couldn't believe it.

After sitting on the side of the highway for several minutes during what she thought was a routine traffic stop, Gentle said a sheriff's deputy in Liberty County, Georgia, got on the charter bus she and her Delaware State lacrosse teammates were riding in and started rambling about human trafficking and drugs.

"When he said, 'What we're looking for is lost children that are returned to families and drug trafficking across state borders' and not a little bit of marijuana and all of the drugs he listed, it was like, is he joking right now?