Scott, in contrast to many who may have been stopped in this rural 10-mile stretch of I-85 where the Banks County Sheriff has jurisdiction, had an NBA salary of $3.3 million in 2015 when the stop occurred. He hired a team of lawyers who documented that the deputy involved had twice been forced to resign previous law enforcement jobs, and, as a member of the “crime interdiction unit” had made over 1,400 traffic stops during 2015 and 2016, but had issued only eight tickets. Of the forty-seven arrests he had made, forty-four were minority drivers.
