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Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52
I would bet a pretty penny that attaching yourself to a moving vehicle is against department policy, and was just an attempt at super escalating and going all out drama queen. You let him drive by, get the plate, and charge him with evading a traffic direction, or whatever. But no, super drama is the option taken, even against department policy. I've seen these things before and in the aftermath they always say mounting the vehicle is against policy.
Probably all charges will be dropped but one, something about evading a traffic direction. The cop should be canned for horrible judgment, going drama queen, and bringing national disrepute on the department ... based on the way it sounds. I hope there is a body cam. If it is something else, I'll adjust my first take.
I love how you start with the cop should not have been hanging on the car..lol.. Even if it was a bad idea, I kind of doubt he was hanging onto the car for no reason.
Whatever pass Scottie had, whatever normal "priority" protocols were in place,.... they all get overruled when an officer instructs you to do something and you disregard that instruction.
Also, keep in mind that once they were back at the station the highest levels of the department had a call to make.. No doubt they knew what the PR end of this would look like. So, two choices......
1. There was a misunderstanding and Mr. Scheffler has been released with no charges at this point. We are reviewing the whole incident.
or
2. We are going to hit him with several charges.
It seems to me, without having a clue what happened, that the department went all in.
Which, until shown otherwise, leads me to believe they are confident that Scheffler's actions were both illegal and dangerous.
PS. Just because he a nice guy, that doesn't mean that the almost automatic sense of entitlement that comes with the whole elite, high paid athlete thing don't exist in his mind as well.