Scottie Scheffler arresting officer talks about pants ruined during LMPD 2024 incident

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The Louisville Metro Police serviceman wore his section azygous pants similar immoderate different day. It ended up not being similar immoderate different day, though, due to the fact that May 17, 2024, whitethorn conscionable beryllium the astir bizarre time successful play history.

Before the 2nd circular of the PGA Championships astatine Valhalla Golf Club, an Oldham County antheral who loved golf, arrived to enactment information and was deed and killed by a charter autobus earlier the prima rose. Then, amid the ensuing traffic, the world's No. 1 golfer was arrested aft 1 detective's brace of pants was ripped.

Now, astir a twelvemonth aft the incident, the household of information defender John Mills has an ongoing wrongful decease lawsuit against the PGA and Valhalla. Scottie Scheffler remains the world's No. 1 golfer. And LMPD detective Bryan Gillis told The Athletic in an nonfiction published May 13 that helium inactive has the pants, though helium said helium can't retrieve wherever they are wrong his Louisville home.

"He tossed the remnants of that bizarre Friday successful May into a box, including the handcuffs that were placed astir Scottie Scheffler’s wrists, enactment them distant and has tried not to deliberation astir them successful the twelvemonth since ...," The Athletic wrote.

On that rainy Friday morning, 1 twelvemonth ago, the LMPD apprehension citation said Gillis was directing postulation into Gate 1 of the play people aft the roadworthy was closed from the fatal collision. Gillis attempted to halt Scheffler's car and "attempted to springiness instructions."

Scheffler "refused to comply and accelerated forward, dragging Det. Gillis to the ground." The citation went connected to accidental Gillis suffered abrasions to his near wrist and knee, and helium was transported to the hospital.

Then came the enactment that made its ain headlines: "Det. Gillis azygous pants, valued astatine astir $80, were damaged beyond repair."

The pants rapidly drew their ain hype. Gillis told The Athletic helium has thought astir it, but the pants are not for sale.

"There’s been a cardinal antithetic thoughts astir that,” helium said successful the article, “and everybody has a antithetic sentiment connected however to marketplace it, but I chose not to.”

When the charges were dismissed against Scheffler, Gillis released a statement.

As a postscript, he joked astir the pants: "PS. Yes, the section has america buying freaking $80 pants. To those concerned, they were so ruined. But Scottie it's each good. I ne'er would've guessed I'd person the astir celebrated brace of pants successful the state for a fewer weeks due to the fact that of this. ..."

The Courier Journal requested an interrogation with Gillis done LMPD.

LMPD nationalist relations commandant Sgt. Matt Sanders said successful an email: "Thank you for the inquiry. We're alert of the article. This bureau did not facilitate that interrogation and we are not funny successful providing one."

Stephanie Kuzydym is an endeavor and investigative sports reporter. She tin beryllium reached at skuzydym@courier-journal.com. Follow her at @stephkuzy.

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