Louisville Police: Video and details of Scottie Scheffler’s arrest to be released Thursday

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

The department said it will also provide an update on its internal investigation into the world No. 1 player’s case at 11:30 a.m. ET during a press conference with Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and LMPD Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel. The LMPD said it will also look into any “policy violations” in the Scheffler case at the time.

Steven Romines, Scheffler’s attorney, said The athlete that the mast camera footage of Scheffler’s arrest outside the PGA Championship will be released and that the video is consistent with Scheffler’s previous statements regarding the incident.

“My situation will be sorted out. It was a chaotic situation and a big misunderstanding,” Scheffler said Friday after being released from prison in time to tee off at Valhalla Golf Club.

Romines declined to comment further on the recordings. Greenberg previously said the Louisville police officer who arrested Scheffler did not have his body camera on.

Louisville police arrested Scheffler shortly after 6 a.m. Friday after he attempted to avoid a traffic jam caused by a fatal crash that same morning.

According to the police report, Scheffler was driving eastbound and attempted to steer his vehicle into a westbound lane. Detective Bryan Gillis attempted to order Scheffler to stop, but he continued driving and “dragged Detective Gillis to the ground,” according to the report. Scheffler is charged with second-degree assault on a police officer, third-degree criminal damage to property, reckless driving and failure to obey traffic signals from a traffic controller.

“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. “Aside from that, the situation escalated. I apologized several times and stuff, but like I said, it was chaotic, it was dark, it was raining, it was busy. You just had an accident. I didn’t know what had happened at the time except that it was an accident. I didn’t know it was fatal. As I said, my condolences go out to the family. But no, at no point did I try to mention myself to defuse the situation. I just tried to stay as calm as possible and just follow the instructions.”

Scheffler’s arraignment is scheduled for June 3.

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