Louisville PD: Scheffler video to be released

The Louisville Metro Police Department is expected Thursday to release video footage of Scottie Scheffler’s arrest during last week’s PGA Championship.

The department said it would also provide an update on its internal investigation surrounding the world No. 1’s case at 11:30 a.m. ET, during a news conference with Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and LMPD Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel. The LMPD said it would also address any “policy violations” regarding Scheffler’s case at that time.

Steven Romines, Scheffler’s lawyer, told The Athletic that pole camera footage of Scheffler’s arrest outside of the PGA Championship will be made public, and the video will be consistent with Scheffler’s statements about the incident thus far.

“My situation will get handled. It was a chaotic situation and a big misunderstanding,” Scheffler said Friday after being released from jail in time to make his tee time at Valhalla Golf Club.

Romines declined further comment on the impending footage. Greenberg previously said that the Louisville police officer who detained Scheffler did not have his body camera on.

Louisville police arrested Scheffler shortly after 6 a.m. Friday after he attempted to steer around traffic congestion that was caused by a fatal crash earlier that morning.

According to the arrest report, Scheffler was driving eastbound as he attempted to steer his vehicle into a westbound lane. Detective Bryan Gillis tried to instruct Scheffler to stop, but he drove forward, as the report reads, “dragging Detective Gillis to the ground.” Scheffler faces charges of second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic.

“When they got me out of the car — like I said, it was very chaotic, and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m just trying to get to my tee time,’” Scheffler said Friday. “Outside of that, things escalated from there. I did numerous apologies and whatever, but like I said, it was chaotic, it’s dark, it was raining, there’s a lot of stuff going on. They had just had an accident. I didn’t know what happened at the time, other than there was an accident. I didn’t know that it was fatal. Like I said, my heart goes out to the family. But no, at no point did I try to name drop myself to defuse the situation. I just tried to remain as calm as possible and just follow instructions.”

Scheffler’s arraignment is scheduled for June 3.

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