Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg on Tuesday mentioned town’s police division will examine whether or not its officers adopted correct protocols when world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday outdoors Valhalla Golf Membership, the location of final week’s PGA Championship.
Greenberg mentioned LMPD police chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel would deal with the investigation later this week.
“I believe that is critically essential that we try this, not simply in high-profile occasions like [those that] came about on Friday, however frequently,” Greenberg mentioned, based on the Louisville Courier-Journal. “And if insurance policies are usually not being adopted, there can be transparency about that. There can be motion taken.”
When ESPN inquired concerning the investigation Tuesday, LMPD mentioned in a press release, “We’ll advise and notify the media when it’s acceptable, and plans are finalized.”
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A Louisville Metro Police Division spokesperson confirmed to ESPN on Saturday that Det. Bryan Gillis didn’t activate his bodycam video recorder earlier than Scheffler was stopped, handcuffed and arrested.
The division’s normal working procedures for body-worn cameras (BWC), which have been revised in December 2022, states that officers are required to “preserve their BWC in a continuing state of operational readiness.”
The procedures additional state that officers “will instantly activate their BWC in recording mode previous to participating in all regulation enforcement actions or encounters.”
“From my understanding, primarily based on the information I’m conscious of proper now, I perceive why physique cam could not have been turned on on the preliminary contact between Officer Gillis and Mr. Scheffler,” Greenberg mentioned Tuesday. “I nonetheless have questions on why it was not on throughout Mr. Scheffler’s arrest.”
Greenberg beforehand mentioned that footage of the incident was captured from a hard and fast digital camera throughout the road, which town deliberate to launch.
In a police report, Gillis alleged that when he tried to cease Scheffler’s SUV to offer him directions, the SUV accelerated and dragged him, inflicting accidents to his left wrist and knee.
Scheffler known as the incident a “huge misunderstanding” and “chaotic scenario.” Scheffler was making an attempt to cross backed-up automobiles to enter the course. Visitors was stopped due to an unrelated deadly crash that killed a 69-year-old man up the highway.
Scheffler was booked on 4 fees, together with second diploma assault of a police officer, a felony.
Scheffler was booked in a downtown detention heart and launched lower than two hours earlier than his second-round tee time. He carded a 5-under 66 within the second spherical and tied for eighth at 13 underneath on Sunday, 8 strokes behind winner Xander Schauffele.
An arraignment is scheduled for 9 a.m. ET on June 3.
