The nicest guy on the PGA tour (and world #1) was arrested by Louisville police on the way to the PGA Championship. Louisville police department with a little over kill charged Scotty with a felony for assaulting one of their officers. He was trying to get to the course to make his tee time in a vehicle marked as a player vehicle. There was a wreck (pedestrian killed by a shuttle bus) that had stalled traffic. The cop jumped on the car trying to stop him from going around the traffic. The cop slid off the car and skinned him knee, hence the assault charge.
Scheffler arrested.
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Yeah apparently Louisville was using contract officers from Germany for extra coverage for the tournament.
Folks in the other thread calling Scottie entitled. Apparently they do not follow golf.
Look I do not mean to come off as being a butthole and just disagreeing with you to disagree but the following is my opinion. The minute the cop jumps on the car and tries to stop him you stop. Period. Too many officers have been killed by being dragged to death in just this manner. Suppose the cop does not just skin his knee and his head ends up under the back tire of the car? Then what? I do not care how nice the guy is or is not. I do not care what his golf ranking is or is not. The life of that officer is more important than any tee time or any golf tournament. Once that officer is on your car trying to stop you then you stop.
1 - WTF was the cop doing jumping on the car? That's seems incredibly and unnecessarily dangerous.
2 - When a cop tells you to stop, just 17ing stop.
This was "hours" before his tee time also, stopping for a minute to see what's going on seems like the smart thing to do instead of taking matters into your own hands and driving away
Deserved or not Louisville is going to get hammered for the spectacle of carting off the #1 player in the world in cuffs from the PGA championship the city was hosting. What I heard was the cops involved didn't realize who they had arrested until they asked a reporter from ESPN. I would imagine that quickly turned into an 'oh s**t' moment.
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I'm not saying the cop was perfect, but he's there doing work that ultimately helps the players win tremendous money for what they do. For crying out loud. If he says stop, just stop. If you have to complain, get his name or badge number and pass it up the chain. Cops do a very under-appreciated job, and most of them aren't geniuses. He's the one risking getting run over. ****. Give him a break and a brake.
THIS. If it was most of us here we would still be in jail, headed to Parchman, and rightfully so.
Why should it matter who he was? I shouldn't matter AT ALL.
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