Posted on 05/17/2024 2:10:43 PM PDT by FLNittany
As for how he handled it at 6AM, I'm thinking these charges will be dropped before his court date on Tuesday. If not, Louisville must have all their other problems solved to go ahead w/ this.
Class act. Rooting for him to win his second major of the season.
Is there a better explanation out there than this post? What happened.
CC
Five under par? Maybe he should arrange it where he gets arrested every morning he has a tournament!
Quick synopsis:
Guy gers hit at before 6 am crossing road by bus and dies.
Police show up and close the only entrance in and out.
PGA told to have players, etc go around. They have car placards.
Scott does and cop trues to stop him. Some misunderstanding .
Cop slightly injured, Scott arrested.
If the report given by CBS is correct it was more than a misunderstanding.
“According to a police report, Scheffler was in an eastbound lane and pulled into the westbound lanes, where a uniformed detective was standing. The detective stopped Scheffler and attempted to give him instructions, but Scheffler “refused to comply and accelerated forward,” according to the report.
The detective, identified as Det. Gillis, was dragged “to the ground” and suffered “pain, swelling, and abrasions to his left wrist,” according to the report.
The detective was dressed in a high visibility reflective jacket when he stopped Scheffler’s car to give instructions, the arrest sheet said. Gillis was taken to the hospital for his injuries.
The Louisville Metro Police Department said in a statement that all lanes were closed during the traffic fatality investigation.”
High visable ubiform clothing, flashing lights, Traffic backed up for more than a mile, and he pulls into the opposite lane to enter a turn, a cop in the lane tries to stops him and makes contact with the officer then getting around the turn and approximately 30 to 40 feet down the entrance road to the club is going to be hard to explain.
Wy69
During my first year living in the Deep South, out on some rural highway, I started to drive around a state patrol “license check” - never saw anything like that in Yankeeland, and had no idea what the heck was going on. I quickly got flagged down by a trooper, who was all business, but pretty much let me slide when he realized I really was totally confused by that operation (my distinct Northern accent probably helped in that regard). I of course don’t know the details of Scheffler’s incident, but I do have some degree of sympathy for him as to how it might have happened.
Was the officer named Xander Schauffele by any chance?
(current tournament leader) ;)
Well, you are just repeating verbatim the cop’s version of the story
Witnesses there describe the incident differently.
And we now trust a report from CBS? I want to see the police body cam
PGA should know better public spectators and their buses shouldn’t be on site until after the golfers check in times.Golf spectators are slow and confused so people get annoyed. It happens all the time. Limit access to club members and player cars.
Got it. Thanks for taking the time because internet searches weren’t pulling up much.
CC
I’m still having a hard time that they don’t have some service entrance.
CBS? Srsly?
What I see today is Scheffler in a theree-way tie at -9 with Xander Schauffele at-12 in the number one position.
I’ve been listening to this a bit during the day. It sounds like the officer and police owe Scheffler a big apology. I’ve seen myself how cops can be over-the-top on the streets at accident scenes, tying everyone up unnecessarily, playing power games. My sympathies to Scheffler.
The “official report” leaves out the policeman involved was not part of the cops assigned to help manage the visitors and golfers attending the tournament, and that Scottie was not alone, as a golfer, trying to go around the traffic bottleneck. Did the policeman not understand Scottie was one of the persons who were supposed to get access, including the bypassing of the traffic jam?
A further “report” claimed the officer reached his hand inside the diver’s side window in an attempt to open the door of Scottie’s vehicle, after which the vehicle accelerated forward, ending with the “incident” that created Scotties’s arrest.
Let's check with the Louisville/Jefferson Metro Commonwealth's Attorney appointed by Gov. Besteal to see whether the charges should be dropped, or whether a few million dollars mandatory donation to DNC/BLM/Freezer Cash Fund will be required first.
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