Newly released documents confirm the Louisville officer who arrested professional golfer Scottie Scheffler should have or could have avoided the conflict.
released Friday, Detective Bryan Gillis “determined Mr. Scheffler was refusing to follow lawful orders from an officer directing traffic, grabbed Mr. Scheffler’s left arm and attempted to open the driver’s door of the vehicle.”
LMPD Lt. Craig Browning said in the report that Gillis was guilty of “tactically poor decision making” by “reaching into a vehicle that is running, is in drive, and the operator has the ability to pull away/accelerate.” “I sat there and tried to diffuse the situation, and then I was literally reaching out trying to find a police officer, not knowing he was one,” Scheffler said. “It’s my fault. I mean, he’s wearing a uniform. He’s wearing a yellow vest. I just didn’t see it.”
Accordingly, there is no body-worn camera footage of the events leading up to Gillis’s run-in with Scheffler.
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