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World-number-one golfer Scottie Scheffler’s arrest last Friday prior to the 2nd round of the 2024 PGA Championship in Louisville was one of the strangest sports stories in recent memory. Nearly a week later, it’s still getting stranger.
The Louisville Police Department held a press conference on Thursday about the case, releasing video that many think did not show something worthy of the felony assault of a police office charge that Scheffler currently has hanging over him. And, a few hours later, embarrassing disciplinary information has surfaced about the arresting officer, Bryan Gillis.
First, here’s video footage of the arrest. Look in the top left corner and you can see Scheffler pull in towards the gates and Gillis make contact with his car.
NEW: here is the relevant portion of the video released by the Louisville Metro PD this morning.
It shows Scottie turn into the lot and a police officer chase after the car and bang on the window. Scottie then stops the car immediately.
I cannot believe THIS is the footage the… pic.twitter.com/MgXKaNbeLg
— John Nucci (@JNucci23) May 23, 2024
I am not sure how that’s possibly a felony, but that’s the current charge. The officer, Bryan Gillis, might have bigger problems to worry about now.
It’s being reported that he’s been disciplined a multitude of times by the Louisville Metro Police Department, including an incident in which he allegedly did donuts in his police car with an intoxicated person in the car!
Louisville Police Det. Bryan Gillis has been disciplined several times for wrecking his vehicle & missing court, according to his personnel file. He was also suspended 5 days for doing "donuts" in his police vehicle while on duty with an intoxicated civilian in a "Code 3" fashion pic.twitter.com/WsW9SlqGxy
— Jason Riley (@JasonRileyWDRB) May 23, 2024
I don’t think that’s allowed.
That’s just one in a long list of disciplinary issues in his record.
A list of all of the times Det. Gillis has been punished by LMPD. (Not including Scheffler body cam violation) pic.twitter.com/Zd7r2C36j9
— Jason Riley (@JasonRileyWDRB) May 23, 2024
That adds up to eleven total days of suspension in his seventeen-year career with the Louisville Metro Police Department.
Now, a guy who got in trouble for doing donuts in a cop car charged Scottie Scheffler for a felony assault of a police officer, even though many would say the video evidence shows that’s not what happened. How could this possibly end well for the city of Louisville?
Scottie Scheffler, who spent part of last Friday morning in a local jail while being booked and having a mugshot taken, ended up finished T8 at the PGA Championships in Valhalla.