Charges against Scottie Scheffler in PGA
Championship arrest dismissed
Fox News,
by
Paulina Dedaj
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Posted By: Hazymac,
5/29/2024 1:55:20 PM
The charges against 10-time PGA Tour winner Scottie Scheffler were dismissed on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after he was arrested just before the second round of the PGA Championship in Kentucky.
Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell addressed the court and filed a motion to have all charges against the two-time major winner dismissed after finding in the prosecutor’s investigation that the evidence corroborated his claim that it was all a "misunderstanding."
Scheffler, 27, was facing four charges including felony assault over injuries a Louisville Metro Police Department officer sustained during the encounter on May 17.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 5/29/2024 2:09:32 PM (No. 1727240)
They let the charges hang over his head for 2 weeks. Once other cameras showed there was no 'dragging incident', there was no way they would proceed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/29/2024 2:17:33 PM (No. 1727248)
The cop is abusive. Fire him. Make him pay Scheffler’s legal fees.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jc96 5/29/2024 2:21:40 PM (No. 1727251)
I like to think the PGA made a few well placed inquiries regarding the economic impact of them packing their tent up in years ahead vs. the inevitable fiasco they were facing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 5/29/2024 2:59:42 PM (No. 1727273)
The charges were clearly crap, and the cop absolutely LIED, the videoes proved that. He had his bodycam off because he's a loose cannon, likely to do out of control crazy crap and lie about it, so he doesn't want his tattler on.
This is a cop who needs to be fired.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/29/2024 3:01:30 PM (No. 1727277)
Imagine this happening to some nobody, with no connections or wealth, and imagine what would have happened to them. The 'railroad' runs through Louisville in more ways than one.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 5/29/2024 3:13:14 PM (No. 1727287)
Perhaps somebody wanted to prevent Scottie from a probable win. At least they didn't inflict disabling injury on Scottie to achieve it. But an investigation into possible foul play.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/29/2024 3:24:04 PM (No. 1727291)
# 6; You mean Scottie was getting the Trump treatment?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 5/29/2024 3:32:49 PM (No. 1727298)
LMPD is not your stellar PD. YouTube is full of LMPD misconduct incidents. No surprises here.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/29/2024 3:35:17 PM (No. 1727302)
Scheffler was red hot coming into the major PGA Championship.
We'll never know what he could have done without the stress of this incident clouding his mind.
You can't unring that bell.
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Charges dismissed against PGA #1 golfer Scottie Scheffler. Even if the charges were from an over-zealous police officer. Now would be a good time to make a rather large charitable donation to LPD thanking them for their hard work. No hard feelings should
remain on either side.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jasonB 5/29/2024 3:57:49 PM (No. 1727313)
#10 That would be great after EVERYONE involved with trying to railroad him (until indisputable evidence appeared) is fired and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Maybe then, the "Good Guys with Guns" will understand you don't just arbitrarily mess with peoples Civil Rights.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/29/2024 3:59:17 PM (No. 1727315)
I agree with #3. I think the PGA most likely had a meeting with the Powers That Be at the Police Station and read them the Riot Act. For that Barney Fife Cop to do what he did, in the hopes of getting his name on TV, backfired. I would hope he's mopping floors at the Police Station right now! No City wants to lose the Revenue of a major PGA Outing. I hate to think of the grief it gave Scottie, and there is no way to rectify that, but if he wasn't the Stand Up Guy he is, he just might think about suing the Cop who made him look like A Crook to the whole world watching the PGA that day! What is that saying "where do I go to get my Reputation Back"? Scottie must have been wondering that after the day he was arrested!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/29/2024 4:18:37 PM (No. 1727321)
Now fire the idiot cop that arrested him too.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
BarryNo 5/29/2024 4:50:38 PM (No. 1727328)
The available evidence allowed the public to see that this was another cop on a power trip. He was never knocked down that we saw.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/29/2024 5:18:53 PM (No. 1727346)
The pretty close to saintly Scottie Scheffler is probably the last person I ever expected to see wearing Ricky Fowler orange anywhere, let alone in a Louisville jail. How the heck did that happen? What an unnecessary imbroglio. Thankfully, cooler heads than the excitable detective dick tracy prevailed. "Dick" had himself quite a time showing the world's #1 golfer who's boss, and might have injured him trying to yank him out of his clearly marked player's courtesy car. Taking Scottie down to County handcuffed just made dick's day. Wahoo, he got to arrest somebody, teach him a lesson he won't forget. If Scottie had shown any resistance at the scene, dick appeared p.o.'d enough to have considered shooting him. Now it's time for dick to enter the unemployment line, alongside Mayor Craig "Leg" Greenberg.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
obdurate 5/29/2024 5:42:32 PM (No. 1727356)
That's good news. Orange is not Scotties color.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
CivilServant 5/29/2024 5:58:20 PM (No. 1727364)
Scheffler was +1200 going into the Championship.
I did not look up the odds that were given for him to win all 4 Majors, but I believe he was favored.
One has to wonder if this “policeman’ is going to buy vacation property, or a new fishing boat now that alllllll those bets placed are gone.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
BevNJ 5/29/2024 6:31:19 PM (No. 1727384)
It’s not about Scottie Scheffler, it’s about all of us. As many have pointed out, Scottie got the case dismissed, but do any of us think we’d be so lucky? Until this incident, I thought police fabricating charges, jamming people up, and destroying their lives was grievance studies nonsense. Good work, LPD: you got a diehard like me seeing the other side of the coin.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BevNJ 5/29/2024 6:40:53 PM (No. 1727394)
Well my reply was shut down basically because I said there’s a two-tiered justice system, one for the Scottie Schefflers of the world and one for the rest of us. Scottie was railroaded. He had enough clout to bring attention to the railroading (and still had to pay probably big bucks to his attorney); any of us would still be facing the charges and would be doing the time even though, like Scottie, we did no crime. Let’s just say this incident has opened my eyes and made me a whole lot more sympathetic.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
AGGW 5/30/2024 12:17:53 AM (No. 1727543)
#9 makes a great point.
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