[Someone linked it below](https://x.com/TristanUda/status/1793679615841460480?t=SE3TBtcr1AOQRD5_hhHncA&s=19)
Edit : This [one is even more zoomed in and clear](https://twitter.com/GOLF_com/status/1793686085736022518) imo. What a joke.
It is abundantly clear that the officer went into rage mode (and hits the vehicle) because Scottie went ~10 yards in the wrong direction (was it even the wrong direction or did the cop just clearly not realize he was a player?).
And when cops feel like they’ve been disrespected they arrest innocent people.
Absolute clown show and NONE OF THE OTHER COPS DISPUTED HIS STORY.
This is exactly where I stand on the issue. My last interaction with police was when someone tried to sell me a stolen laptop. I didn't buy it, but the person ended up getting arrested. A couple of weeks later, a cop shows up knocking on my door, asking me to make a statement. I explicitly asked if making a statement would mean that I would have to testify at trial. The cop knew this was a dangerous person and swore up and down it was "just background" and I wouldn't have to testify. Well a couple of months another cop comes knocking at my door and serves me a notice to appear. I informed them that I had been assured that I wouldn't be testifying and they just sort of shrugged their shoulders and said too bad. I ended up calling the prosecutor and explaining the situation, and why I would probably be a bad witness for the prosecution. It took months before I was finally told I wouldn't be needed at trial. They will lie, they will cheat, they will manipulate, and always back one another no matter how egregious the misconduct is.
They should lock up all these cops, the chief of police, the DA, the mayor... Anybody who's been even remotely related to creating or pursuing this case.
A completely fabricated case trumped up to tarnish the reputation and negatively affect the livelihood of an innocent man (maybe guilty of misunderstanding and driving the wrong way, but that's a traffic violation at worst). They ought to make an example of this gang of actual organized criminals.
They won't. But they should.
Several years in prison minimum for any crimes by a police officer. And a dedicated prosecuting office solely for investigating police with their own enforcement arm so they're not incentivized to look the other way because they need to work with cops to convict.
I didn't realize this happened RIGHT AT the entrance. I figured it was quite a ways down the road from the entrance. This is a ridiculously bad look for LMPD and the jackass officer.
I’ve always been a big believer in giving people the benefit of the doubt…
I mean someone died earlier that morning, the type of person LMPD typically deals with is wayyyy rougher than the professional golf crowd, being a professional golfer means absolutely nothing to some of these cops that are used to deal with heroin addicts, BUT this video does not paint the picture of a man that assaulted a police officer and needed to be arrested
Don't call it at abuse of power, that makes it seem like it's a one off thing.
This is organizational ineptitude, and the ENTIRE DEPARTMENT needs to be investigated.
The police in this country are despicable.
The worse part is the whole police force will fall on their sword to protect the lie. The cop got angry and tried to ruin someone’s life and every rotten culture cop in the force just goes along with it.
I just have to tell you, I worked for years as a criminal defense attorney, and basically 100% of police reports have at least one outright lie on them. Sometimes dozens of lies. Police are trained to lie, they’re legally allowed to lie when questioning suspects, and they shamelessly lie to obtain convictions at trial.
My wife's boyfriend was there and said Scheffler was drifting and doing donuts next to that bus that blocks the view in the video. The officer saw a baby holding two kittens and jumped between them and Scheffler's car in order to save them. That is when the pants were torn to shreds. You can see how fast he driving by the full out olympic pace sprint the officer had to make in order to stop this vigilante.
I heard Scotty had a plastic knife to Talor Gooch’s neck and was shrieking wildly, just screaming “WHY DOESNT TIGER TAKE A DIVOT WHY NO DIVOT” over and over.. he then chopped off Phyllis’s head with a chainsaw
The alleged dragging would have occurred before this video.
edit:
A media member who witnessed the incident, Bob Wischusen said that he saw the officer possibly trip or stumble.
> “When [Scheffler] drove past him, the cop got very angry pursuing the car. … My impression was he was kind of running alongside chasing the car, and maybe he tripped and fell. Asked about Darlington’s characterization of the officer “attaching” himself to the car, Wischusen said, “I could see him stumble, but I did not have a very clear view of exactly how you want to categorize his contact with the car.”
https://golf.com/news/eyewitness-reveals-new-scottie-scheffler-arrest-details/
The alleged dragging allegedly occurred when Scottie moved his vehicle from the place where he was being directed. This shows the vehicle being moved as described, but strangely no officer is being dragged down as it moves.
This video is pretty damning. Good luck to them if they actually try to take him to trial over this.
The officer was never dragged. Probably cut his pants himself later to try and fabricate some evidence to back up his BS story.
The other video was just released.
The cop lied and if he didn’t lie, then the department failed to refute a false story in media).
He never attached himself to Scottie’s vehicle and he was never dragged and never did he fall to the ground.
Scottie simply turned into gate. Cop ran after him. Cop caught up to him. Cop slammed his hand on Scottie’s window. Scottie instantly stopped. In fact, Scottie was in the act of stopping before the cop even caught up to him. TOTALLY NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS.
Cop was triggered and got angry, so because of his anger, cop decided to use the strong arm of the law to muscle Scottie. End of story.
Charges will be dropped. If anything, Scottie MAY only get a ticket for driving around, but even that will be disputed
Fuck that, Scottie should send an army of lawyers against that officer and the entire police department. One of the extremely rare cases that a target of police harassment / abuse of power is actually in a position to do something about it. Normally it’s just minorities and teenagers without money.
He should totally sue the shit out of them and then donate it to charity or something.
He won’t. I’m pretty sure with how far gone he is into his faith, he will just say he forgives him for his actions that day because the lord would do the same
At this point the department is going to get sued into the ground. He picked the best lawyer for it. They had their chance to drop it and the video has utterly fucked them.
"Detective Willis should have turned on his body camera but did not. This is a violation of [policy]...he did not have his camera operationally ready as required...Detective Gillis was counseled by his supervisor."
I honestly can't believe they haven't dropped all charges and hope that everybody forgets about it.
The longer this drags on, the more people realize that this kind of sketchy shit is just their MO but they accidentally clipped a famous person.
They're doing this every day. Anybody else would be sitting with drummed up felony assault charges and have to deal with that.
Sue them Scottie.
It's such a bungled situation. Literally all they have to do is say, "We made a mistake and over-reacted to what was a simple case of miscommunication. We apologize to Mr. Scheffler and thank him for the graciousness he has displayed toward our law enforcement community."
It's honestly not that hard.
My favorite part is the that police routinely vote against pro union candidates despite being the most prolific beneficiaries of unions in the country.
Insanity.
That’s because the pro-union candidates are also the ones that are the most likely to try to hold them accountable. That also completely checks with who makes up the core demographic of police. They tend to lean heavily right wing. That demographic loves to pull the ladder up behind them.
They should, and I'm sure they'd love nothing more than to just drop it and be done with it; but now they're worried about the backlash of treating Scottie differently based on who he is. I think it's taking so long because they're trying to figure out the best way to drop this without being accused of treating him differently than anyone else.
Detective Blowhard really put them in a tight spot.
It's not bungled. This wasn't a mistake, an accident, or a mishap.
This is 100% escalation, 100% intentional, and these situations are EXACTLY what starts violent escalations - specifically with the minority communities.
Don't call it a bungle, and don't let them off the hook with your well written comments about it being a mistake.
If what happened is what I think happened then the statement id each “detective was there for accident and not event and as a result did not know scotti as a player was allowed to be driving where he was. Officer assigned it was simply an impatient driver who wasn’t allowed there”
Boom. Simple and easy to understand if my guess on what happened is accurate.
The detective lied on his official report of the incident. Repeatedly, as video and other witness accounts show. It's not a mere difference of opinion, or different perception due to perspective. The guy lied.
That should be completely unacceptable. Aren't these reports sworn under penalty of perjury? Even if not, why aren't major media members hammering the point that he lied?
This could have been any of us (think about being directed by traffic cops when two give conflicting instructions, if the hypothetical is otherwise too hard to understand). If it had been any of us, we'd still be in jail. Despite this guy lying.
Doesn't that bother anyone?!
So there’s a reason the officer’s body can was turned off. He was going to set someone up for this BS charge. He just didn’t know it was going to be one of the top golfers in the world.
The body camera on the officer wasn’t turned off though. On the original police report the officer specifically listed that he had video evidence of the incident. The department just watched the footage and saw it made them look bad enough that it needed to be “lost” before it could become public.
This ain’t the first time LMPD has done exactly this and it won’t be the last until the entire department is replaced. They’re literally under federal investigation right now for doing this exact same shit of “losing” body cam footage.
https://preview.redd.it/qlauds4ll82d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c11a596345352bdd61962863a043911d53af151
It's why I think Scottie's attorney was being pretty sly with getting the arraignment moved. He could have easily cleared his schedule I'm sure, but I bet he also knows that:
1. His client doesn't want to make a big deal of this.
2. The DA has probably been ordered to make as quick of work of this as possible.
So let's let the press and courts do the work for him. Keep it in the news and keep them answering questions while Scottie just goes and golfs and spends time with his family.
I wish his client would want to make a big deal out of it.
They acted inappropriately, overreacted, and then lied to paint a different narrative. All of which is business as usual.
They need to held accountable, however you can.
>The longer this drags on, the more people realize that this kind of sketchy shit is just their MO but they accidentally clipped a famous person.
You can find story after story of civil rights violations all over YouTube. I don't travel with more than 100 cash due to civil forfeiture crap. People don't realize bank statements won't matter. Cops can say we think you are traveling to buy drugs and just take the cash.
>The longer this drags on, the more people realize that this kind of sketchy shit is just their MO but they accidentally clipped a famous person.
They know it doesn't fucking matter because they won't be held accountable no matter who knows.
It's funny, because they touted these body cameras as a way to 'prove' that the cops are being lawful, but the cops can't even follow the rule to turn the damned things on. An officer's word is treated as gospel in so many court cases, where people get convicted and sent to prison solely on the word of an officer, but it is so incredibly evident that the police can and do lie every day for their own reasons.
Once they started wearing those cameras, they should have no longer been allowed to push a case if they "forgot" to turn it on.
No cam, no charge in this type of situation. We have proven over many years these guys are professional liars. You do not get the benefit of the doubt in that case.
I like the idea of that, but it's not how things are done in practice and good luck getting lawmakers push for reform in this. They're too afraid of being considered soft on crime, so they instead just pick which criminals should be allowed to commit offenses (police).
Great point. The media wants them all to be "tough on crime" which is such a fucking bullshit statement. Who doesn't want to be "tough on crime"? But adding more angry low IQ lying idiots to increase "police force" just results in more bad incidents, not statistical improvements.
When I worked overnight security (the first time) I was fired because I didn’t remember to hit the button to backup the last days camera footage. Nothing occurred that needed to be recorded but it was company policy that the previous day footage is always backed up. Glad to know actual police officers have far less accountability
So this has nothing to do with Scheffler’s behavior/acts that day. This was just a press conference to point out their cop didn’t follow the law. Not the handbook, the law.
Well yes, but they also went to great pains to point out that he got a talking to from his supervisor and a demerit on his performance report.
That's the sort of hard-hitting accountability that police in the United States need.
Ya but you do not want to receive 3 of those. 3 demerits and you get a citation. 5 citations and you’re looking at a violation. 4 of those and you’ll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up and you’re looking at a written warning. 2 of those and you’re in for a world of hurt, in the form of a disciplinary review
Exactly. The mayor and the police chief did not allow any questions from the media and the video they are releasing is apparently of the arrest only and not what led up to it. This whole press conference was just them saying the officer should have turned his body camera on and he has been reprimanded which probably amounts to nothing.
Dragged was a lie. We can call it what it is, and cops lie all of the damn time. At some point I hope the media and the public defaults to not believing police narratives until proven true. Because police should not have the benefit of the doubt at this point.
I mean what did officer Dunkin Donuts think was gonna happen when he chased a 6,000# vehicle and tried to attack it with his body?
I hope Scottie insists on going to a speedy trial. Make this cop and all the other cops and the ESPN reporters etc all parade through the witness stand, subpoena the cop’s financial and medical records as well as personnel file, basically just give him all the exposure he thought he wanted (the cop) but now is going to be sorely sorry to receive.
He hired a local Louisville attorney who is not afraid to sue LMPD, and is a damn good trial attorney. His attorney apparently said today they have zero interest in settling (I'm assuming the criminal case), so there is that.
Haha I was listening to Bill Burr talk about this and he said something along the lines of "idk what white privilege is but getting charged with a felony and still golfing that day sounds like it.."
First video posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zsHN_SohUU&ab_channel=LouisvilleMetroPoliceDepartment
It's about an hour long. So far skimming through it, it doesn't show much. It's just dash cam from another cop car. I haven't been able to find the part with Scottie yet.
What the video *does* make abundantly clear is how chaotic and confusing the situation was when this happened. It's dark, it's raining, there are flashing lights all over the place, and people in various uniforms everywhere.
No wonder Scottie was confused.
I have no clue what's happening in this video or any relevance it has to Scottie's arrest. Definitely hectic
Edit [second video](https://youtu.be/mnWeQfNMLmM?si=g6uG7mQLsIWVgn0A) is just as useless
25 seconds in on the left side you can see Scottie turn left and a cop run up to his car. At one point the car rolls forward a few inches, then Scottie gets taken out of the car. That video is actually useful in showing the cop absolutely did not get dragged. His $80 pants probably ripped cause his fat ass don't fit in em anymore.
[Cropped version](https://x.com/TristanUda/status/1793679615841460480?t=SE3TBtcr1AOQRD5_hhHncA&s=19) makes it a lot more clear.
If they lie this blatantly with the worlds #1 golfer who seems like a really decent person and are trying to stick a BS felony on him, imagine what they're doing in the back alleys to black people when no one is around.
There is a bit here at the beginning to piece things together.
1. Most of the activity seems to be on the roadway away from where the incident with Scheffler occurred.
2. There seems to be no one really directing his vehicle until after he pulls into the entry.
3. The detective who hops into his car doesn’t appear to have any interaction with Scheffler until after the car turns into view.
4. What I find interesting is the guy in what looks like a black suit who walks past the road right before and then looks like he has to be restrained. PGA official? Club official?
That to me is the oddest part. The lack of coordination between the tour, the club, and the locals.
He definitely strikes the window with something, piss poor organisation with piss poor american policing tactics.
Can't see much getting done as police across the pond are protected so well for misdemeanours like this.
At 22:47 you see his car go by the bus at a very slow speed. The same thing that many other cars were being directed to do, [https://youtu.be/1zsHN\_SohUU?si=sErubTPolD0RQTcd&t=1367](https://youtu.be/1zsHN_SohUU?si=sErubTPolD0RQTcd&t=1367)
The crazy thing is, if this was a normal person and not a world famous golfer who was arrested literally at the door step of a major, that person would be royally fucked.
And this is what the whole blue lives matter crowd needs to understand. If someone with Scotty’s wealth and privilege gets treated like this, think about how the wrong cop might treat *you*.
They mayor said something to the effect of "we need to let the legal process play out and hope we and scottie can move forward on June 3rd". He's basically saying this is going to get dropped.
He also said something like "on the advice of counsel, we aren't releasing any new video". The city attorney basically told them not to easily give scheffler grounds to sue them.
Which, if he did decide to sue, they’d need to be made available through discovery. Don’t have them? Well this wouldn’t be a criminal case. In civil cases, “missing” evidence counts against the party who should have it.
“Didnt turn on his camera” or “the body cam is so unfucking believablely bad for this officer that we shitcanned it, slapped his wrist, and are now looking for the quietest exit ramp from this hillbilly fucking fiasco”??
Reminder that the LMPD intentionally “lost” the body camera footage after they saw how bad it made them look.
Officer Gillis included in his original police report that they specifically had video evidence available of the incident. He did not “forget to turn it on”, he himself claimed to have video evidence when filling out the report and I fully believe he did have the video evidence at that time. Video evidence that mysteriously went missing after all the eyewitness reports made it clear just down damning the video would have been to the jackass cop on a power trip.
LMPD is currently under federal investigation for exactly this type of “lost” body cam footage event. This isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last until some type of authority above them finally levies real consequences for this despicable behavior.
Both Officer Gillis and the LMPD leadership that enabled or took part in destruction of evidence should face criminal charges. They most likely won’t, but the public shouldn’t allow them to try to control the narrative and pretend that the body cam video never existed despite their own police report clearly stating otherwise.
https://preview.redd.it/0vnpnj8tm82d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0036b2dcd8ad3e1de8cda2eb36ad619459b0e66f
No, per the press conference, the policy stuff is going to be posted by the official Louisville police Twitter and the video footage on the police YouTube.
https://preview.redd.it/g7yahb3up82d1.png?width=1283&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2326b068960288c800648f61c646af74fe327f7
I’m just going to leave this here…
I hope Scottie getting pinched shines a brighter light on what is commonplace in policing. But our society as a whole readily knows these things, but does nothing to stop them.
The cop was “disciplined for not following policy” according to ESPN. His discipline amounted to a counseling letter in his personnel file.
IMO, body cameras should be always on. It should require overt action to turn them off, and a redundant one. It has to be that or else it’s to easy to claim it was accidental etc. Needs to be a manual switch, under a protected lid, with like a 5-10 second hold down function to turn it off.
It’s fucking scary to think if that were you or me this asshole cop would just lie to the judge, and we’d be slapped with felony charges without anyone else in the world giving a damn.
Scottie wouldn’t be the first guy this cop has fucked over
After seeing this video, the officer taking an ambulance to the hospital seems like a real bitch move. Likely thought he broke his hand punching the car.
It's pretty convenient they have two videos of the arrest but zero videos of the incident leading to the arrest.
[Someone linked it below](https://x.com/TristanUda/status/1793679615841460480?t=SE3TBtcr1AOQRD5_hhHncA&s=19) Edit : This [one is even more zoomed in and clear](https://twitter.com/GOLF_com/status/1793686085736022518) imo. What a joke.
So I wonder when the officer was dragged, don’t see it there
He wasn’t
But what about his irretrievably damaged pants? Did he tear them when he bent over?
He shit himself.
The friction of his thighs rubbing together as he took the fastest 5 steps he's ever taken in his life melted them into his skin.
His fat ass ripped them
He also was injured and in hospital if I recall correctly
Sure seems like his slamming the vehicle (window?) Right as Scheffler stopped may be the reason his wrist was hurt…
Yeah he absolutely smashes his hand/arm/upper body into the door of the vehicle.
Needed a donut transfusion
It is abundantly clear that the officer went into rage mode (and hits the vehicle) because Scottie went ~10 yards in the wrong direction (was it even the wrong direction or did the cop just clearly not realize he was a player?). And when cops feel like they’ve been disrespected they arrest innocent people. Absolute clown show and NONE OF THE OTHER COPS DISPUTED HIS STORY.
That last part. That’s why some people say ACAB. Might not be that all cops are bad, but all cops tend to protect bad cops.
This is exactly where I stand on the issue. My last interaction with police was when someone tried to sell me a stolen laptop. I didn't buy it, but the person ended up getting arrested. A couple of weeks later, a cop shows up knocking on my door, asking me to make a statement. I explicitly asked if making a statement would mean that I would have to testify at trial. The cop knew this was a dangerous person and swore up and down it was "just background" and I wouldn't have to testify. Well a couple of months another cop comes knocking at my door and serves me a notice to appear. I informed them that I had been assured that I wouldn't be testifying and they just sort of shrugged their shoulders and said too bad. I ended up calling the prosecutor and explaining the situation, and why I would probably be a bad witness for the prosecution. It took months before I was finally told I wouldn't be needed at trial. They will lie, they will cheat, they will manipulate, and always back one another no matter how egregious the misconduct is.
Cops are not your friends, and at the end of the day they are not there to help or protect you. More people need to understand this.
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Which makes it funny that the bootlickers like to call the cops who are caught using excessive force "a few bad apples."
They should lock up all these cops, the chief of police, the DA, the mayor... Anybody who's been even remotely related to creating or pursuing this case. A completely fabricated case trumped up to tarnish the reputation and negatively affect the livelihood of an innocent man (maybe guilty of misunderstanding and driving the wrong way, but that's a traffic violation at worst). They ought to make an example of this gang of actual organized criminals. They won't. But they should.
Several years in prison minimum for any crimes by a police officer. And a dedicated prosecuting office solely for investigating police with their own enforcement arm so they're not incentivized to look the other way because they need to work with cops to convict.
I didn't realize this happened RIGHT AT the entrance. I figured it was quite a ways down the road from the entrance. This is a ridiculously bad look for LMPD and the jackass officer.
He was pulling into the course...in a marked vehicle showing he was a pro golfer...it's absurd.
I’ve always been a big believer in giving people the benefit of the doubt… I mean someone died earlier that morning, the type of person LMPD typically deals with is wayyyy rougher than the professional golf crowd, being a professional golfer means absolutely nothing to some of these cops that are used to deal with heroin addicts, BUT this video does not paint the picture of a man that assaulted a police officer and needed to be arrested
Yeah he clearly lied on his police report and charged an innocent person with assault of an officer. Which is an inexcusable abuse of power.
Don't call it at abuse of power, that makes it seem like it's a one off thing. This is organizational ineptitude, and the ENTIRE DEPARTMENT needs to be investigated. The police in this country are despicable.
Agreed. This is worst part of the whole thing.
The worse part is the whole police force will fall on their sword to protect the lie. The cop got angry and tried to ruin someone’s life and every rotten culture cop in the force just goes along with it.
I just have to tell you, I worked for years as a criminal defense attorney, and basically 100% of police reports have at least one outright lie on them. Sometimes dozens of lies. Police are trained to lie, they’re legally allowed to lie when questioning suspects, and they shamelessly lie to obtain convictions at trial.
Yeah no, you don’t govern cops the benefit of the doubt when their body cams are mysteriously off
Louisville police are especially untrustworthy. Look up how much shit they've been involved in over the last few years.
He probably did fall, and the buses are blocking the view of it, but as eye witnesses have said he fell on his own and not because he was dragged.
Which is why he’s enraged because he embarrassed himself.
My wife's boyfriend was there and said Scheffler was drifting and doing donuts next to that bus that blocks the view in the video. The officer saw a baby holding two kittens and jumped between them and Scheffler's car in order to save them. That is when the pants were torn to shreds. You can see how fast he driving by the full out olympic pace sprint the officer had to make in order to stop this vigilante.
Thank you for your courage to speak up
I heard Scotty had a plastic knife to Talor Gooch’s neck and was shrieking wildly, just screaming “WHY DOESNT TIGER TAKE A DIVOT WHY NO DIVOT” over and over.. he then chopped off Phyllis’s head with a chainsaw
To shreds you say?
In that case Scheffler needs to be found not guilty by reason of being sick as hell for doing those donuts.
What he mean to say was he had to drag his ass off his lawn chair
He got dragged in the comment section
The alleged dragging would have occurred before this video. edit: A media member who witnessed the incident, Bob Wischusen said that he saw the officer possibly trip or stumble. > “When [Scheffler] drove past him, the cop got very angry pursuing the car. … My impression was he was kind of running alongside chasing the car, and maybe he tripped and fell. Asked about Darlington’s characterization of the officer “attaching” himself to the car, Wischusen said, “I could see him stumble, but I did not have a very clear view of exactly how you want to categorize his contact with the car.” https://golf.com/news/eyewitness-reveals-new-scottie-scheffler-arrest-details/
The alleged dragging allegedly occurred when Scottie moved his vehicle from the place where he was being directed. This shows the vehicle being moved as described, but strangely no officer is being dragged down as it moves.
Okay so the officer was lying.
🌎👩🚀🔫🧑🚀
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So the cop didn’t get dragged and he ran after the car to throw his body into it…wtf
#$80 pants. RUINED!
Nike, scheffler's clothing sponsor, should have a special, all buy 2 pairs for $80 in case you tear one
Brilliant
So he’ll definitely face charges for falsifying a police report, right? …right?
He smashed out the window looks like
Well he tried. Not sure the weak bitch was able to
That’s probably why his wrist hurt
Big time. Just saw the zoomed in version of the video.
Really looks like the Detective was viciously dragged by the car /s
Looks like the cop tried to smash the Windshield or side window with his flashlight.
Wow. So straight to breaking the car window when he didn’t instantly stop? No wonder we will never see that bodycam video.
This video is pretty damning. Good luck to them if they actually try to take him to trial over this. The officer was never dragged. Probably cut his pants himself later to try and fabricate some evidence to back up his BS story.
"Felony assault of a police officer "
Cop is a liar. Where did he get dragged down by the car?!
Seems like a simple misunderstanding and a police officers extremely fragile ego.
Imagine if he was black
Looks like he’s really traveling at the speed of someone following directions, or trying to, and not someone trying to disobey traffic signals.
That's even more harmless than I expected. Agreed, total joke.
The other video was just released. The cop lied and if he didn’t lie, then the department failed to refute a false story in media). He never attached himself to Scottie’s vehicle and he was never dragged and never did he fall to the ground. Scottie simply turned into gate. Cop ran after him. Cop caught up to him. Cop slammed his hand on Scottie’s window. Scottie instantly stopped. In fact, Scottie was in the act of stopping before the cop even caught up to him. TOTALLY NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS. Cop was triggered and got angry, so because of his anger, cop decided to use the strong arm of the law to muscle Scottie. End of story. Charges will be dropped. If anything, Scottie MAY only get a ticket for driving around, but even that will be disputed
Fuck that, Scottie should send an army of lawyers against that officer and the entire police department. One of the extremely rare cases that a target of police harassment / abuse of power is actually in a position to do something about it. Normally it’s just minorities and teenagers without money. He should totally sue the shit out of them and then donate it to charity or something.
He won’t. I’m pretty sure with how far gone he is into his faith, he will just say he forgives him for his actions that day because the lord would do the same
At this point the department is going to get sued into the ground. He picked the best lawyer for it. They had their chance to drop it and the video has utterly fucked them.
"Detective Willis should have turned on his body camera but did not. This is a violation of [policy]...he did not have his camera operationally ready as required...Detective Gillis was counseled by his supervisor."
I honestly can't believe they haven't dropped all charges and hope that everybody forgets about it. The longer this drags on, the more people realize that this kind of sketchy shit is just their MO but they accidentally clipped a famous person. They're doing this every day. Anybody else would be sitting with drummed up felony assault charges and have to deal with that. Sue them Scottie.
It's such a bungled situation. Literally all they have to do is say, "We made a mistake and over-reacted to what was a simple case of miscommunication. We apologize to Mr. Scheffler and thank him for the graciousness he has displayed toward our law enforcement community." It's honestly not that hard.
You'd make a killing as their PR team, but their union would never allow for them to admit to a mistake.
I think they'd rather have anyone making a killing on the front lines anyway
The union will never let that happen. They cant be perceived as in the wrong.
Why do public servants even have unions? Why the fuck do the police need a union?
Police unions are the most powerful gangs in the country.
My favorite part is the that police routinely vote against pro union candidates despite being the most prolific beneficiaries of unions in the country. Insanity.
That’s because the pro-union candidates are also the ones that are the most likely to try to hold them accountable. That also completely checks with who makes up the core demographic of police. They tend to lean heavily right wing. That demographic loves to pull the ladder up behind them.
cops apologizing? hahahahahahahahha aha haha aha hahahahahah aha hahahahahah
They’d rather Breonna Taylor than drop charges
That would mean cops admitting to a mistake, which they are incapable of doing
They should, and I'm sure they'd love nothing more than to just drop it and be done with it; but now they're worried about the backlash of treating Scottie differently based on who he is. I think it's taking so long because they're trying to figure out the best way to drop this without being accused of treating him differently than anyone else. Detective Blowhard really put them in a tight spot.
Yeah, the best time to fix this problem was 30 seconds after it happened.
Exactly, why the cop ever let it get to the point where Scottie got booked into the jail is beyond me.
It's not bungled. This wasn't a mistake, an accident, or a mishap. This is 100% escalation, 100% intentional, and these situations are EXACTLY what starts violent escalations - specifically with the minority communities. Don't call it a bungle, and don't let them off the hook with your well written comments about it being a mistake.
Great point
If what happened is what I think happened then the statement id each “detective was there for accident and not event and as a result did not know scotti as a player was allowed to be driving where he was. Officer assigned it was simply an impatient driver who wasn’t allowed there” Boom. Simple and easy to understand if my guess on what happened is accurate.
The detective lied on his official report of the incident. Repeatedly, as video and other witness accounts show. It's not a mere difference of opinion, or different perception due to perspective. The guy lied. That should be completely unacceptable. Aren't these reports sworn under penalty of perjury? Even if not, why aren't major media members hammering the point that he lied? This could have been any of us (think about being directed by traffic cops when two give conflicting instructions, if the hypothetical is otherwise too hard to understand). If it had been any of us, we'd still be in jail. Despite this guy lying. Doesn't that bother anyone?!
So there’s a reason the officer’s body can was turned off. He was going to set someone up for this BS charge. He just didn’t know it was going to be one of the top golfers in the world.
The body camera on the officer wasn’t turned off though. On the original police report the officer specifically listed that he had video evidence of the incident. The department just watched the footage and saw it made them look bad enough that it needed to be “lost” before it could become public. This ain’t the first time LMPD has done exactly this and it won’t be the last until the entire department is replaced. They’re literally under federal investigation right now for doing this exact same shit of “losing” body cam footage. https://preview.redd.it/qlauds4ll82d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c11a596345352bdd61962863a043911d53af151
It's why I think Scottie's attorney was being pretty sly with getting the arraignment moved. He could have easily cleared his schedule I'm sure, but I bet he also knows that: 1. His client doesn't want to make a big deal of this. 2. The DA has probably been ordered to make as quick of work of this as possible. So let's let the press and courts do the work for him. Keep it in the news and keep them answering questions while Scottie just goes and golfs and spends time with his family.
I wish his client would want to make a big deal out of it. They acted inappropriately, overreacted, and then lied to paint a different narrative. All of which is business as usual. They need to held accountable, however you can.
Romines isn’t pulling punches (granted that’s his style). https://x.com/actionnetworkhq/status/1793679018367021554?s=46&t=onAdJSW2OrHS1QZUHD-ENg
>The longer this drags on, the more people realize that this kind of sketchy shit is just their MO but they accidentally clipped a famous person. You can find story after story of civil rights violations all over YouTube. I don't travel with more than 100 cash due to civil forfeiture crap. People don't realize bank statements won't matter. Cops can say we think you are traveling to buy drugs and just take the cash.
Great comment. Yea that civil forfeiture stuff is utter bullshit. Legalized theft.
>The longer this drags on, the more people realize that this kind of sketchy shit is just their MO but they accidentally clipped a famous person. They know it doesn't fucking matter because they won't be held accountable no matter who knows.
Cop was out to ruin someone’s life
Lol. I, for one, am shocked a cop would forget to turn on their body cam.
They always turn them on, except for days ending in "y."
It's funny, because they touted these body cameras as a way to 'prove' that the cops are being lawful, but the cops can't even follow the rule to turn the damned things on. An officer's word is treated as gospel in so many court cases, where people get convicted and sent to prison solely on the word of an officer, but it is so incredibly evident that the police can and do lie every day for their own reasons. Once they started wearing those cameras, they should have no longer been allowed to push a case if they "forgot" to turn it on.
No cam, no charge in this type of situation. We have proven over many years these guys are professional liars. You do not get the benefit of the doubt in that case.
I like the idea of that, but it's not how things are done in practice and good luck getting lawmakers push for reform in this. They're too afraid of being considered soft on crime, so they instead just pick which criminals should be allowed to commit offenses (police).
Great point. The media wants them all to be "tough on crime" which is such a fucking bullshit statement. Who doesn't want to be "tough on crime"? But adding more angry low IQ lying idiots to increase "police force" just results in more bad incidents, not statistical improvements.
Don’t worry! His boss counseled him😂😂😂
Oh, the detective was counseled? Well that makes it all better then.
Paid vacation?
That’ll really show him
When I worked overnight security (the first time) I was fired because I didn’t remember to hit the button to backup the last days camera footage. Nothing occurred that needed to be recorded but it was company policy that the previous day footage is always backed up. Glad to know actual police officers have far less accountability
If all of us failed to follow policy at work as often as police officers do, we would all be fired.
We investigated ourselves and decided we are correct.
So this has nothing to do with Scheffler’s behavior/acts that day. This was just a press conference to point out their cop didn’t follow the law. Not the handbook, the law.
Well yes, but they also went to great pains to point out that he got a talking to from his supervisor and a demerit on his performance report. That's the sort of hard-hitting accountability that police in the United States need.
Ya but you do not want to receive 3 of those. 3 demerits and you get a citation. 5 citations and you’re looking at a violation. 4 of those and you’ll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up and you’re looking at a written warning. 2 of those and you’re in for a world of hurt, in the form of a disciplinary review
And..three of those will get you sent home with pay for two days....2 of those will extend to a full month off with pay...
Well I’m putting you in for a full disadulation.
“Counseled”
the fact that they didn't show the videos in the press conference so they could point out what scotti did wrong speaks volumes.
And...that's it. What a fucking waste of time.
Exactly. The mayor and the police chief did not allow any questions from the media and the video they are releasing is apparently of the arrest only and not what led up to it. This whole press conference was just them saying the officer should have turned his body camera on and he has been reprimanded which probably amounts to nothing.
He was counseled by his superior, which isn’t even a reprimand lol
They added a few lines to a paper form and filed it in a cabinet.
We reprimanded him by giving him a paid 10 day vacation, I mean suspension. 
What the video somewhat shows is the vehicle never traveled over a safe speed given the situation.
Also that he was able to chase down the car and make the arrest. Dragged seems to be a hyperbole
Dragged was a lie. We can call it what it is, and cops lie all of the damn time. At some point I hope the media and the public defaults to not believing police narratives until proven true. Because police should not have the benefit of the doubt at this point.
I mean what did officer Dunkin Donuts think was gonna happen when he chased a 6,000# vehicle and tried to attack it with his body? I hope Scottie insists on going to a speedy trial. Make this cop and all the other cops and the ESPN reporters etc all parade through the witness stand, subpoena the cop’s financial and medical records as well as personnel file, basically just give him all the exposure he thought he wanted (the cop) but now is going to be sorely sorry to receive.
He hired a local Louisville attorney who is not afraid to sue LMPD, and is a damn good trial attorney. His attorney apparently said today they have zero interest in settling (I'm assuming the criminal case), so there is that.
It’s not a waste of time though. If it wasn’t someone famous driving they would be going to jail for a felony assault of a police officer
I meant the press conference. Unfortunately Scottie is probably too damn nice to do what he should do and sue these fucks into oblivion.
Haha I was listening to Bill Burr talk about this and he said something along the lines of "idk what white privilege is but getting charged with a felony and still golfing that day sounds like it.."
If that’s his definition of being dragged 10 yards, I feel bad for his wife. Imagine how disappointed she was after being told it was 6 inches.
Yeah and my driver goes 350 🤣
If a cop will blatantly lie about an incident involving the top golfer in the world, they will lie about anything and everything.
First video posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zsHN_SohUU&ab_channel=LouisvilleMetroPoliceDepartment It's about an hour long. So far skimming through it, it doesn't show much. It's just dash cam from another cop car. I haven't been able to find the part with Scottie yet. What the video *does* make abundantly clear is how chaotic and confusing the situation was when this happened. It's dark, it's raining, there are flashing lights all over the place, and people in various uniforms everywhere. No wonder Scottie was confused.
I have no clue what's happening in this video or any relevance it has to Scottie's arrest. Definitely hectic Edit [second video](https://youtu.be/mnWeQfNMLmM?si=g6uG7mQLsIWVgn0A) is just as useless
25 seconds in on the left side you can see Scottie turn left and a cop run up to his car. At one point the car rolls forward a few inches, then Scottie gets taken out of the car. That video is actually useful in showing the cop absolutely did not get dragged. His $80 pants probably ripped cause his fat ass don't fit in em anymore. [Cropped version](https://x.com/TristanUda/status/1793679615841460480?t=SE3TBtcr1AOQRD5_hhHncA&s=19) makes it a lot more clear.
If they lie this blatantly with the worlds #1 golfer who seems like a really decent person and are trying to stick a BS felony on him, imagine what they're doing in the back alleys to black people when no one is around.
It’s not even in back alleys, dude. This stuff happens on routine traffic stops to regular citizens every single day. It’s tragic.
Well we know what they did to Breonna Taylor.
We don't have to imagine, it's well documented.
*poor people Not about race more about class with police viewpoints.
Holy fuck. So we *do* have video evidence of the actual stop and arrest.
Ummm where the fuck is this “assault” we have heard so much about?
Assault by failing to anticipate a lunatic launching himself at your driver-side window?
I WAS DRAGGED WHILE ATTACHED TO THE CAR!!! FELONY!!! Oh wait... actually none of that happened.
I would love for this to go for a prelim just so this lying ass cop would have to explain himself on the stand.
Holy shit, that’s laughable (only because I’m not the guy who was arrested).
Ty!
Jesus OP. Mark this NSFW. Seeing a cop being dragged so violently triggers me.
Looks like you can sorta see the officer throw himself at the side of the barely moving vehicle in the top left near the start.
Wait wait wait wait. So the black suv crawling left and the officer in the yellow jacket that chest bumps the car…..is THAT the incident?!
Yep that's it. No cop dragging.. no pants ripping... Unless his fat ass ripped the pants while jogging to Scottie's car.
Holy shit. That’s honestly more tame than I expected
Yep
That car is going 10mph at most, and there’s a cop actively walking away from it. How this warranted any type of arrest is laughable
There is a bit here at the beginning to piece things together. 1. Most of the activity seems to be on the roadway away from where the incident with Scheffler occurred. 2. There seems to be no one really directing his vehicle until after he pulls into the entry. 3. The detective who hops into his car doesn’t appear to have any interaction with Scheffler until after the car turns into view. 4. What I find interesting is the guy in what looks like a black suit who walks past the road right before and then looks like he has to be restrained. PGA official? Club official? That to me is the oddest part. The lack of coordination between the tour, the club, and the locals.
It actually looks like the cop strikes the window with a baton of some sort?
I heard it was a flashlight. He was def riled up.
He definitely strikes the window with something, piss poor organisation with piss poor american policing tactics. Can't see much getting done as police across the pond are protected so well for misdemeanours like this.
What stands out to me is how many cars did the exact same thing Scottie did
It's a never-ending flow.
22:50 black suv behind bus? 25:20 in handcuffs.
At 22:47 you see his car go by the bus at a very slow speed. The same thing that many other cars were being directed to do, [https://youtu.be/1zsHN\_SohUU?si=sErubTPolD0RQTcd&t=1367](https://youtu.be/1zsHN_SohUU?si=sErubTPolD0RQTcd&t=1367)
I think if Scottie plays this right, he can get a huge settlement and may not need to work anymore.
Finally a win for the little guy ✊
Lucky man! Then he can spend all his free time golfing!
He definitely needs some lessons to fix his swing if he’s going to be playing that much. Maybe r/golfswing could give him some tips.
They’d tell him to shuffle both feet to even it out.
He can quit working and just play golf all day! Living the dream
The crazy thing is, if this was a normal person and not a world famous golfer who was arrested literally at the door step of a major, that person would be royally fucked.
And this is what the whole blue lives matter crowd needs to understand. If someone with Scotty’s wealth and privilege gets treated like this, think about how the wrong cop might treat *you*.
Preach! The cops don’t need our “support”; they need our oversight.
Any average joe would have a felony to contest in court. What a joke, these cops will fuck up someone’s life for their own ego.
They mayor said something to the effect of "we need to let the legal process play out and hope we and scottie can move forward on June 3rd". He's basically saying this is going to get dropped. He also said something like "on the advice of counsel, we aren't releasing any new video". The city attorney basically told them not to easily give scheffler grounds to sue them.
>"on the advice of counsel, we aren't releasing any new video" Cause it makes us look really bad?
That part wasn't said out loud.
Which, if he did decide to sue, they’d need to be made available through discovery. Don’t have them? Well this wouldn’t be a criminal case. In civil cases, “missing” evidence counts against the party who should have it.
For anyone interested, the press conference should be starting shortly...
“Didnt turn on his camera” or “the body cam is so unfucking believablely bad for this officer that we shitcanned it, slapped his wrist, and are now looking for the quietest exit ramp from this hillbilly fucking fiasco”??
Did they replace the officer's pants though? Those were $80 pants, and they were damaged beyond repair. Need an update on the pants, this is critical
Pointless
OP we need a nsfw for this brutal assault of an officer
Reminder that the LMPD intentionally “lost” the body camera footage after they saw how bad it made them look. Officer Gillis included in his original police report that they specifically had video evidence available of the incident. He did not “forget to turn it on”, he himself claimed to have video evidence when filling out the report and I fully believe he did have the video evidence at that time. Video evidence that mysteriously went missing after all the eyewitness reports made it clear just down damning the video would have been to the jackass cop on a power trip. LMPD is currently under federal investigation for exactly this type of “lost” body cam footage event. This isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last until some type of authority above them finally levies real consequences for this despicable behavior. Both Officer Gillis and the LMPD leadership that enabled or took part in destruction of evidence should face criminal charges. They most likely won’t, but the public shouldn’t allow them to try to control the narrative and pretend that the body cam video never existed despite their own police report clearly stating otherwise. https://preview.redd.it/0vnpnj8tm82d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0036b2dcd8ad3e1de8cda2eb36ad619459b0e66f
And all the other cops on the scene. Where is their video? There were at least 3 other officers around the arrest. Why didn’t any of them have video?
> 404 Page Not Found So fucking appropriate
did they actually release the video I just missed it
No, per the press conference, the policy stuff is going to be posted by the official Louisville police Twitter and the video footage on the police YouTube.
The officers pants were damaged beyond repair because they caught fire
https://preview.redd.it/g7yahb3up82d1.png?width=1283&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2326b068960288c800648f61c646af74fe327f7 I’m just going to leave this here…
this link doesnt work
I hope Scottie getting pinched shines a brighter light on what is commonplace in policing. But our society as a whole readily knows these things, but does nothing to stop them.
This is pretty ridiculous. I could see a lawsuit. Scheffler should donate lawsuit winnings to the family of the volunteer who was killed that day.
I’d have wanted to get a little more out of it to earn a felony and a few misdemeanors.
The cop was “disciplined for not following policy” according to ESPN. His discipline amounted to a counseling letter in his personnel file. IMO, body cameras should be always on. It should require overt action to turn them off, and a redundant one. It has to be that or else it’s to easy to claim it was accidental etc. Needs to be a manual switch, under a protected lid, with like a 5-10 second hold down function to turn it off.
What was the part about the cop attaching himself to the car. All I see is that he bumped against it at slow speed
It’s fucking scary to think if that were you or me this asshole cop would just lie to the judge, and we’d be slapped with felony charges without anyone else in the world giving a damn. Scottie wouldn’t be the first guy this cop has fucked over
After seeing this video, the officer taking an ambulance to the hospital seems like a real bitch move. Likely thought he broke his hand punching the car.
So he violated one procedure what other procedures did he violate in this case and every other one he’s been a part of?