Police concerned in Scottie Scheffler arrest to be investigated over protocol, Louisville mayor says

Louisville mayor Craig Greenberg mentioned Tuesday that the law enforcement officials who arrested Scottie Scheffler will probably be investigated for whether or not they adopted correct protocol.

Scheffler was arrested simply outdoors of Valhalla Golf Membership early Friday morning en path to the course and charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, a felony, amongst different misdemeanor prices.

“I believe that is critically vital that we do this, not simply in high-profile occasions like [those that] came about on Friday, however regularly,” Greenberg mentioned, in keeping with the Louisville Courier-Journal. “And if insurance policies are usually not being adopted, there will probably be transparency about that. There will probably be motion taken.”

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Greenberg mentioned there was no police physique cam footage of the early Friday morning incident.

Scheffler was booked into the Louisville Division of Corrections after allegedly driving previous a police officer who was directing site visitors and did not cease when directed. Visitors got here when a person was killed outdoors the golf course, resulting in increased police presence than anticipated.

In response to an arrest report, Louisville Detective Bryan Gillis suffered accidents within the incident, however Greenberg mentioned there was no police footage of the incident.

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Scheffler known as the incident a “large misunderstanding.”

“This morning, I used to be continuing as directed by law enforcement officials. It was a really chaotic scenario, understandably so contemplating the tragic accident that had occurred earlier, and there was an enormous misunderstanding of what I believed I used to be being requested to do,” he mentioned. “I by no means supposed to ignore any of the directions. I’m hopeful to place this to the facet and deal with golf in the present day.

“After all, all of us concerned within the event specific our deepest sympathies to the household of the person who handed away within the earlier accident this morning. It actually places every part in perspective.”

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Hours after his arrest, Scheffler shot a 66 to place himself at nine-under by way of two rounds. Nevertheless, he shot a third-round 73 and was unable to make up floor on Sunday (he completed T8 as -13). Xander Schauffele’s 21-under received the event for his first main victory.

Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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