Anonymous wrote:I am a former prosecutor and this thread makes me laugh, but more in derision than humor.

It reminds me of all the experiences I had working in the legal system where middle and upper middle class white people argued endlessly to me - sometimes until I had to hang up the phone on them or close the door in their faces - about why the law shouldn’t apply to them or their precious snowflake child.

These same people would bray and bark if I didn’t enforce the law with all due haste and harshness on those poor white trash and brown people who were mucking up the neighborhood.

It’s the same old story, as old as our legal system.

How many of the people posting here in defense of this rich white golfer who injured a law enforcement officer have argued strenuously that all those black motorists the cops ended up shooting should have just done what they were told?

Sickening racism/classism going on in these comments.


By the way, I’m not a cop lover - especially not after having worked with them for years. Some are good, many not so much. Most of them would be the first to call me or come to my office looking for a pass for their kid’s drunken driving or whatever. My comment is not about cops, it’s about the rule of law - which so many Americans feel shouldn’t apply to them.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of privilege means I can be arrested by a cop on an ego trip screaming profanities at me for trying to get to my job on time? Doesn't sound very advantageous.

You’re obviously talking about someone else. Scottie Scheffler wasn’t screaming profanities at anyone. Nor was he going on an ego trip. Who are you people who are so unhinged? If you’re going to have an opinion about something maybe understand what you’re talking about first.

The cop. Learn to read.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of privilege means I can be arrested by a cop on an ego trip screaming profanities at me for trying to get to my job on time? Doesn't sound very advantageous.

You’re obviously talking about someone else. Scottie Scheffler wasn’t screaming profanities at anyone. Nor was he going on an ego trip. Who are you people who are so unhinged? If you’re going to have an opinion about something maybe understand what you’re talking about first.

Anonymous wrote:What kind of privilege means I can be arrested by a cop on an ego trip screaming profanities at me for trying to get to my job on time? Doesn't sound very advantageous.

Anonymous wrote:I am a former prosecutor and this thread makes me laugh, but more in derision than humor.

It reminds me of all the experiences I had working in the legal system where middle and upper middle class white people argued endlessly to me - sometimes until I had to hang up the phone on them or close the door in their faces - about why the law shouldn’t apply to them or their precious snowflake child.

These same people would bray and bark if I didn’t enforce the law with all due haste and harshness on those poor white trash and brown people who were mucking up the neighborhood.

It’s the same old story, as old as our legal system.

How many of the people posting here in defense of this rich white golfer who injured a law enforcement officer have argued strenuously that all those black motorists the cops ended up shooting should have just done what they were told?

Sickening racism/classism going on in these comments.


By the way, I’m not a cop lover - especially not after having worked with them for years. Some are good, many not so much. Most of them would be the first to call me or come to my office looking for a pass for their kid’s drunken driving or whatever. My comment is not about cops, it’s about the rule of law - which so many Americans feel shouldn’t apply to them.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if 100% guilty, Scottie with get the (popular white talent) Morgan Wallen treatment. No follow up necessary.

No doubt there will be a lot of pressure to dismiss everything. But those are some very serious charges. And the injured cop doesn't have to play along. If this was a rich black basketball or football player, everyone would be calling him an entitled thug, why does the rich white country club raised golfer get the benefit of the doubt?

People calling the basketball or football player a thug would be wrong. This has cop got his pride hurt and decided to arrest someone written all over it.

Speak for yourself. Sounds like a rich young prick athlete who thought rules only apply to proles.

The rules don’t apply to anyone anymore. Where have you been?

So when a school has a sign that says it is closed on the weekends (not a gate physically barring you from entering, but a sign at the entrance) and a teacher goes onto campus on a Saturday to work, is she an entitled AH? Or is she someone who knows the rules don't apply to her. Like a professional golfer in a car marked for players who is told to ignore the spectator traffic?

What land do you live in where every rule breaker get punished? This is the world we live in. You don’t even have to go to school and you can still graduate.

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Anonymous wrote:I first assumed overzealous cop, but when you read the details, Scottie sounds like an entitled scumbag who thought the rules didn't apply to him.

And Scottie is in fact a born super rich country club kid turned really rich pro golfer who was been pampered his entire life.

It was a closed street for a pedestrian FATALITY investigation. You don't get to drive through a fatal CRIME SCENE because you're a pro golfer.

Sigh. Read what actually happened. He didn't drive through the crime scene. He didn't hit the cop (he held on to the door). His car was marked as one for a player, not a normal spectator. The cop made a bad call and yes, Scottie should have stopped once the cop didn't let go of the door but you're making this into something it wasn't. And by the way, I'm not even a golf fan and knew nothing other than Scottie's name before this, but reading this thread is a perfect example of hysteria and fiction becoming the real story. It's sad.

Are you his publicist or just a pathetic middle aged groupie? You were not there. You are trafficking spin put into the media by his reps, PGA and network toadies. The only FACT is he was booked and charged with several crimes. And multiple cops and brass on scene and at the dept validated those charges, so there is merit.

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Anonymous wrote:Based on what the journalist who was there said, they had been instructed to go that way and the road was open for approved persons (including players).

When they got to the entrance of the club (this was past the actual accident scene), a bus was stopped and Scottie was behind the bus. The bus door was open and no one was in the driver seat so Scottie drove around the bus to enter the club. The police say they told him to stop, he says he thought the person motioning him to stop was security but since he already had police approval to enter, he kept going. Then a police officer 'attached' himself to the car (words of the journalist who witnessed it) and Scottie drove about 10 yards just inside the club entrance before stopping when something started to bang on his window. He stopped, was dragged out of the car and arrested

He claims it was all a misunderstanding as he had approval to drive there and entre the club and was in a player marked car.

And the cop yelled at the journalist when Scottie asked him to tell the cop that Scottie was a player.

Tell the bottom rung blue collar cop who I am! I am a famous white rich upper caste pro athlete! Tell him laws and rules don’t apply to me!

They don’t. Welcome to reality

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Anonymous wrote:I just can’t believe the “soft” treatment this golfer is receiving for his actions. Now if Scottie were a black golfer we all know what the outcome would have been.

Nothing. Just like Tiger Woods. The guy was arrested what else do you think should happen to him?

Tiger Woods has been treated with the utmost "softness" by law enforcement, despite multiple incidents of questionable driving and behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:I just can’t believe the “soft” treatment this golfer is receiving for his actions. Now if Scottie were a black golfer we all know what the outcome would have been.

Tiger Woods.

Anonymous wrote:I just can’t believe the “soft” treatment this golfer is receiving for his actions. Now if Scottie were a black golfer we all know what the outcome would have been.

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Anonymous wrote:Based on what the journalist who was there said, they had been instructed to go that way and the road was open for approved persons (including players).

When they got to the entrance of the club (this was past the actual accident scene), a bus was stopped and Scottie was behind the bus. The bus door was open and no one was in the driver seat so Scottie drove around the bus to enter the club. The police say they told him to stop, he says he thought the person motioning him to stop was security but since he already had police approval to enter, he kept going. Then a police officer 'attached' himself to the car (words of the journalist who witnessed it) and Scottie drove about 10 yards just inside the club entrance before stopping when something started to bang on his window. He stopped, was dragged out of the car and arrested

He claims it was all a misunderstanding as he had approval to drive there and entre the club and was in a player marked car.

And the cop yelled at the journalist when Scottie asked him to tell the cop that Scottie was a player.

Tell the bottom rung blue collar cop who I am! I am a famous white rich upper caste pro athlete! Tell him laws and rules don’t apply to me!