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Lattimores detail tense traffic stop. Here’s what Nebraska police said about it
Former South Carolina football star Marcus Lattimore and his wife Miranda took to social media Wednesday to detail a harrowing interaction with law enforcement in Nebraska.
The couple was on a cross-country road trip from Las Vegas to South Carolina, according to their Twitter pages. Marcus Lattimore recently left a position as part of the Gamecocks football program.
The couple reported being stopped and “accused of trafficking drugs” by Nebraska State Patrol in the far western part of the state, near the Wyoming and Colorado borders.
“Accused of trafficking 30lbs of cocaine & heroin,” Marcus Lattimore said via Twitter.
Miranda Lattimore tweeted: “I’ve been racially profiled before, but the events that just went down in Kimball, Nebraska were unspeakable. I can’t even begin to describe the numbness I felt when an officer asked my husband and myself to step out of our vehicle because I was ‘shaking.’”
Miranda continued that the Lattimores were “going 80 mph in a 75 mph zone. Yes, we were speeding. But that does not warrant being taken out of our car, patted down, separated and put into two different vehicles, interrogated, accused of trafficking drugs and then we had to wait on a K-9 unit to come inspect our vehicle. An hour later, we weren’t even given a speeding ticket. Five police officers and a K-9 unit all for going 5 miles over the limit.”
She tweeted that the couple filed a formal complaint with Nebraska State Patrol “and they have taken this very seriously.”
A Nebraska State Patrol spokesperson, in a statement released to The State, said: “We are aware of the allegations involving a traffic stop that occurred this morning near Kimball. NSP takes complaints seriously and has a thorough process to diligently review each case. NSP is in contact with the motorists involved and the review process is already underway.”
Marcus Lattimore played for the Gamecocks from 2010-2012, until a devastating knee injury ended his career. He was drafted into the NFL by the San Francisco 49ers, but was never healthy enough to play. After his retirement, he started a foundation working with young people and spent a few years as South Carolina’s director of player development.
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