A historically Black university in North Carolina announced Monday that it has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice seeking a review of a search of a bus carrying students during a traffic stop in South Carolina last month.

Shaw University President Paulette Dillard has accused law enforcement officers in Spartanburg County of racially profiling the 18 students traveling on a contract bus from Raleigh, North Carolina, to a conference in Atlanta on Oct. 5.

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