Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and the Louisville Metro Police Department have released new video footage from their internal investigation into Scottie Scheffler’s arrest outside Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky just hours before tee time for the PGA Championship on Friday morning.
LMPD posted two videos. One of his is: Fixed pole camera And the other one is “Police car dash camera” — Greenberg spoke at a news conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
The four-minute video, captured by a fixed-pole camera, shows a dark, rainy scene outside Valhalla and what appears to be a police officer approaching Scheffler’s car between 20 and 40 seconds.
The other video was 55 minutes of police dashcam footage which showed cars and buses driving slowly and policemen and traffic police meeting on the road.
Scheffler attempted to steer his vehicle around a police barricade but was arrested after Detective Brian Gillis failed to stop despite attempts to give him directions.
Police said Gillis was dragged to the ground and suffered minor injuries.
LMPD said Gillis was disciplined for not using body camera footage to arrest Schaefer.
LMPD also said they are not aware of any video footage that captured LMPD’s initial interaction with Schaefer.
Mr. Scheffler, 27, was booked and processed at: 7:28 AM EST He was booked into Metro Correctional Facility Friday morning on four charges: second-degree assault on a police officer, third-degree criminal damage to property, reckless driving and failing to obey a police officer’s signals while directing traffic.
Police barricades were put in place to control traffic flow after a shuttle bus crash that killed tournament vendor John C. Mills, 69, earlier in the day. It was done.
LMPD said Detective Gillis, who made the arrest in Scheffler’s case, should have turned on his body camera but did not, and that failure to do so violated LMPD policy, resulting in Detective Gillis being subject to “corrective action” in accordance with disciplinary protocol.
Schaeffler was not involved in the accident.
Scheffler’s attorney, Steven Romines, who was at the news conference, said Scheffler and his client have no interest in settling the case.
“[Scheffler] I haven’t done anything wrong,” Romines told reporters outside the courthouse. “Try this or dismiss it. It’s that simple… I’ve seen everything there is to see.”
Greenberg said Scheffler and the Louisville Police Department have made it clear they “look to move forward” from this matter.
Scheffler said he stretched inside his prison cell Friday, went through his routine and tried to get his heart rate down as tee time for the second round approached.
Scheffler’s arraignment was scheduled for Tuesday; Postponed until June 3rdAccording to Romines.
He is scheduled to appear in court for his arraignment on Thursday.
Scheffler is competing in the Charles Schwab Challenge, with the first round teeing off on Thursday at Colonial Golf Course in Fort Worth, Texas.
