Scottie Scheffler arrest breakdown

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let me move on to golf for a quick second because it’s about something to happen off the course not on the golf course more specifically the PGA Championship where world number one golfer Scotty Sheffer was arrested by Louisville Police heading into Valhalla Golf Club this morning it happened obviously this morning as traffic was stopped outside the club after a man was struck and killed by a shuttle bus according to ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington who witnessed the incident Sheffer was trying to drive around the crash scene on a median an officer instructed Sheffer to stop but Sheffer continues to drive about 10 to 20 yards towards the entrance here’s sound from the incident listen up here guys guys guys uh St back I’m back I’m back you’re G one right guys what do we tell you I’m staying back here the thing right now right now he’s going to jail okay okay he’s going to jail and it ain’t nothing you can do about it period i there’s there’s nothing you can do about it okay I I okay now do you have a question I’m a I’m media I’m a reporter Okay so that’s all I’m just I just want to make sure that’s okay but you need to step back over here no problem you got it okay okay before I give my opinion let me just say this Sheffer was arrested and hit with several charges which include second deegree assault of a police officer third degree criminal mischief reckless driving and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic here’s a statement from Scotty Sheffer himself the world’s number one player who bought away has spent the LA spent like 87 weeks as the world’s number one player over the last uh two years or so he said quote this morning I was proceeding as directed by police officers it was a very chaotic situation understandably so considering the tra tragic accident that had occurred earlier and there was a big misunderstanding of what I thought I was being asked to do I never intended to disregard any of the instructions I’m hopeful to put this to decide and focus on golf today of course all of us involved in the tournament express our deepest sympathies to the family of the man who passed away in an earlier accident this morning it truly puts everything into perspective end quote Scotty Sheffer deserve to be arrested let’s get that out the way first a police officer is dragged on the side of your car 15 to 20 yards on its face it seems perfectly plausible that an arrest is warranted because it shouldn’t have taken you 15 to 20 yards to stop while an officer was hanging onto your vehicle that’s on its face it does come with a little bit of trickiness however number one it was chaotic out there number two it wasn’t just police officers that had on those yellow jerseys that you see on that screen right there it was also folks who were working to direct traffic and obviously the PGA Tour is there number three we want to act like everybody gets treated the same all I ask is that we grow up and understand that’s not true you’re the number one golfer in the world the police is saying according to Jeff Darlington who I interviewed this morning by the way during my day job on ESPN’s First Take ISS every weekday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12: new n Standard Time on ESPN Jeff Darlington my at ESPN was on the show and he said one of the officers came up to him afterwards cuz he was the one playing it on his camera he said one of the officers came up to him afterwards and asked who is it like who’s the guy just arrested so they didn’t know presumably they didn’t know that was the world’s number one golfer you I tell you what you did know you did know that the traffic that was out there wasn’t just because of the crash or the accident that killed The Pedestrian got arrested soul but also you know those folks were out there was coming to the PGA it’s traffic out there for a reason in Louisville Kentucky they were coming to the PGA and you also know that golfers because according to my colleagues at ESPN guys like Marcus you you know um Michael EES and others pointed out to me each golfer is giving a car they don’t get they they’re not giv a driver but each of them are given a car and on each car States the official uhuh PGA Tour it’s got that in blazoned on the back that is what I was told this morning by my buddy Michael EES who does a great job covering golf for us he said um golfers are giv free cars for the week but they are not assigned people to drive them the officers saying that sheffler disobeyed his orders and then dragged him to the ground with his car causing injuries to the officer and his clothing Chef was saying he didn’t know the guy was a cop the cop is evidently saying otherwise if he knew that that was an officer automatic arrest automatic felony charge that’s the way it goes that’s the way it goes if he didn’t know that’s a different animal that means the officer didn’t identify himself I’m simply saying what the hell are you doing driving a car 20 feet 15 to 20 yards rather knowing somebody is clinging to the damn car why would you keep driving so I’m not trying to pretend or act as if Sheffer is innocent I’m just saying we don’t know all the details what I will say is that the world’s number one golfer doesn’t need to get yanked out of a car right at the entrance of the event slammed up against their car and ultimately cuffed and essentially per walked I do know that I would not be surprised if heads rolled with a couple of those police officers because the number one golfer in the world was treated that way and obviously that compromised the event now that wasn’t the reason the event was stalled for an hour and a half but ultimately when something like that happens and a Tour event which attracts folks to its event which is good for the local economy if that’s compromised somebody’s GNA pay a price for that so it’ll be interesting to see what happens I don’t know if something will ever happen to the officers I don’t know if something should happen to them because we don’t know all the details and most importantly I don’t know if something were to end up happening in one of the offices of not several of them in any regard that we would know because they’re not public figures so how much Intel would we get about that if something if they were reprimanded in any way it did seem a bit excessive I must admit I don’t think that was necessary but then again if you pissed the officer off because you’re dragged in 15 to 20 feet that’s how it goes I don’t know what more to say other than that but it was a shocking day of events to say the least I’ll leave it at that