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***Scottie Scheffler Arrest Thread***

NorthCyd

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Stormin said:
He didn’t “plow through”. He drove very slowly around. A cop previously told him to proceed. So he was following police orders…….before another cop decided he wanted him to follow “his” orders…….which disagreed with the first cop’s orders. Which is when the second cop overreacted in that chaotic situation. Bottom line, after looking at this cop’s record, he should be fired
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He didn't stop by his own admission even after hearing someone yelling at him to stop. If you want to say the cop should be fired fine. He should definitely not have tried to reach in and practically assault Scottie. I would have stopped in that situation if I had heard someone say it out of an abundance of caution to see what's going on and I think Scottie should have too. That's my opinion.
 
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The incident was a big misunderstanding. No big deal.

EXCEPT that the cops initially charged him with a felony and lied and/or greatly exaggerated in the official police report to justify the charges. That should be the story here. Someone without Scottie’s money, eyewitnesses, and media attention probably gets convicted of this and has to deal with a felony on their record for the rest of their lives. Police accountability, or lack thereof, is the issue here.
 
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cycloneworld said:
The incident was a big misunderstanding. No big deal.

EXCEPT that the cops initially charged him with a felony and lied and/or greatly exaggerated in the official police report to justify the charges. That should be the story here. Someone without Scottie’s money, eyewitnesses, and media attention probably gets convicted of this and has to deal with a felony on their record for the rest of their lives. Police accountability, or lack thereof, is the issue here.
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I doubt anyone would have ever been convicted of this but it would have cost a common joe thousands of dollars in attorney fees and countless hours in court before the charges were dropped after many months or years.
 
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Cops also supercede a gate security person, I even understand that line of thinking.
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Yeah, anyone who has worked at a large event doing traffic\parking (or on the other end has been involved with people needing to get in to special access areas) knows a lot of the people there as 'security' are just there to be warm bodies. The police should, in general, be more advanced in the heirarchy of things and be more rapidly informed.

It would be an easy assumption to make on an event participant's part, especially a VIP, that the first cop knew where he was supposed to go and the 'security guard' was ill-informed and the guard gets ignored. (under the theory security can go get the police who will tell them what's up)
 
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I doubt anyone would have ever been convicted of this but it would have cost a common joe thousands of dollars in attorney fees and countless hours in court before the charges were dropped after many months or years.
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And potentially a job depending on their vocation. But agree the most likely scenario for an average joe is dropped felony charges and a ticket with a fine plus the legal fees.
 
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The Louisville PD is breathing a HUGE sigh of relief today. Someone not as nice, and as rich, as Scottie could have gotten a lot of money out of this.
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Could they have though? I think the cop screwed up and completely overreacted. But doesn't there have to be some "damages" for their to be a legit lawsuit? I don't Scottie or his reputation will be hurt by this. If anything, he's probably more well liked now.
 
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Could they have though? I think the cop screwed up and completely overreacted. But doesn't there have to be some "damages" for their to be a legit lawsuit? I don't Scottie or his reputation will be hurt by this. If anything, he's probably more well liked now.
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If nothing else there's reputational damage to someone incurred by arresting them publicly, and charging them with a bogus felony, and seems like a good amount of defamation going on in that police report that was full of lies.

And when high level athletes are (like most celebrities) brands unto themselves, that reputational damage does have a significant financial value.
 
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NorthCyd said:
He didn't stop by his own admission even after hearing someone yelling at him to stop. If you want to say the cop should be fired fine. He should definitely not have tried to reach in and practically assault Scottie. I would have stopped in that situation if I had heard someone say it out of an abundance of caution to see what's going on and I think Scottie should have too. That's my opinion.
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Scottie told the cop with the holdup in traffic he was running late to arrive for his tee time. Kind of an important detail and Scottie is driving an Official Vehicle with markings signifying he is a PGA golfer.

At some point we need cops with discretion and good judgement as well as not showing excessive anger and aggression. This cop’s history shows the problem really wasn’t Scottie. It was the cop with a really long record of bad behavior and poor policing.
 
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I’ve said Scottie should have stopped, and Scottie admitted that. They could have given him that ass chewing and let him go and then it’s done.

The cops decided to take that “confession” (which wasn’t even really a confession other than he admitted he didn’t stop when told to, which we all knew) and turned it into 4 charges including a felony. All because the cop maybe had a boo boo on his knee (which the public hasn’t seen yet).

No doubt Louisville PD released this audio the same day they dropped the charges intentionally. They knew they couldn’t get a conviction, but releasing his confession was as much of a win as they could get.
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I keep seeing this line as well. What’s the deal with the fantasy about cops “chewing ass”? How about they just talk like adults?
 
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Cop belongs in a new line of work.
Scottie should hire him as his new caddie.
 
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Lots of cops power trip. Like a lot. They also have a huge advantage cause they're writing the report. Many will hide details or add things to cover their own ass.
 
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