LMPD chief: Officer violated policy not turning on body camera during Scottie Scheffler arrest
QUICK UPDATES:
- LMPD released two videos of his arrest. One shows the initial interaction from far away. >> Watch all videos here. <<
- Also, police said Detective Bryan Gillis did violate policy by not turning on his body camera during the arrest. LMPD's chief said he received "corrective action" for the policy violation.
The full news conference is in the player below:
Louisville leaders say the officer who arrested the world맥스카지노s top-ranked golfer violated policy during the arrest.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and LMPD Chief Jackie Gwinn-Villaroel held a news conference on Thursday giving new details on their investigation into the arrest of Scottie Scheffler.
He was charged with assault of a police officer last Friday morning outside of Valhalla Golf Club while he was in town for the PGA Championship.
Officers had blocked part of Shelbyville Road after a security guard, John Mills, was hit by a shuttle bus.
Scheffler is accused of ignoring orders from Det. Bryan Gillis, who was directing traffic at the time, and dragging him with his SUV.
There was no body camera footage of the incident.
Gwinn-Villaroel said Thursday that Gillis violated LMPD policy by not activating his camera during his arrest of Scheffler.
She said he has received "corrective action" for the policy violation.
LMPD is expected to release two other videos that show the arrest sometime on Thursday. One is from a pole on Shelbyville Road, and the other is from a dash cam.
Steve Romines, Scheffler's attorney, spoke after the update. He said they have no intentions of settling, and Scheffler plans to be at his June 3 arraignment:
Gillis has received multiple reprimands, oral and written, some of which led to suspensions.
He was suspended for five days in 2013 after doing donuts in a business parking lot while an "intoxicated civilian" was in his police car with him.
The year before that, Gillis was suspended for four days for violating LMPD's policy for court attendance, which his records say he had been previously disciplined for four different times from 2010-11.
In 2011, Gillis received a one-day suspension without pay for violation of LMPD's court attendance policy, which is the same suspension he received in 2010 for the same reprimand.
Before those suspensions, LMPD had written Gillis a reprimand for failing to show up for court appearances in April 2010.
One of Gillis' latest reprimands came in 2021 in which he pursued a vehicle that had not committed a violent felony or was wanted on a warrant. His file also says that he failed to notify MetroSafe before pursuing the vehicle in March 2021.