The police officer who arrested top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler outside the PGA Championship is receiving “corrective action” for not having his body-worn camera activated when he approached the golfer’s vehicle, authorities said on Thursday.
Louisville officials said during a news conference that they are not aware of any video footage of the initial interaction on Friday last week between Scheffler and Louisville Detective Bryan Gillis outside the Valhalla Golf Club.
However, Gillis wrote in a report on his failure to turn on the camera that Scheffler “demanded to be let in and proceeded forward... I was dragged/knocked down by the driver.”
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Police did release video on Thursday from a street pole camera that appears to show Scheffler’s SUV turning into the golf club entrance, prompting an officer to run toward the vehicle and seemingly strike it as it came to a stop. The camera is too far away to capture the full details.
Another video released by authorities came from a police vehicle dashcam and shows Scheffler in handcuffs as he is escorted by officers.
Scheffler was arrested on charges that he injured Gillis and disobeyed commands, but the golfer said “he never intended to disregard any of the instructions,” and the incident was caused by a misunderstanding.
After the news conference, Scheffler’s attorney Steve Romines said that his client was not at fault.
“Our position is the same as it was last Friday, Scottie Scheffler didn’t do anything wrong, we’re not interested in settling the case,” Romines said. “We’ll either try it or it will be dismissed.”
The city’s police chief said that the department’s officers are expected to maintain their body-worn cameras in a “constant state of operational readiness.”
“Detective Gillis should have turned on his body-worn camera, but did not,” Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said. “His failure to do so is a violation of [department] policy on uniforms and equipment.”
Gwinn-Villaroel said he “received corrective action” for the violation.
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