Nashville:
Country music star Morgan Wallen has denied throwing a chair off a Nashville rooftop bar, according to newly surfaced body and cruiser camera footage released by the Metro Nashville Police Department to the Associated Press. The footage captures the moments before and after the singer’s April 2024 arrest.
While details of Wallen’s statements to officers were previously undisclosed, the newly released video shows two officers reacting to an object falling from above late on a Sunday night.
As Wallen and his bodyguards approach the main entrance on Broadway, a man with Wallen can be heard shouting in the footage, “He didn’t see anything. You don’t have witnesses, you are accusing!”
Another bodyguard chimed in, vehemently denying the action: “He didn’t throw nothing, he didn’t throw nothing,” and alleged that two bar employees were “being aggressive.”
When questioned by an officer about the events, Wallen claimed ignorance. “We’ve not tried to cause no problems, man. I don’t know what they are — I don’t know why,” he tells another officer.
After an officer clarified they were trying to determine what happened after a chair fell from the roof and landed near their police car, Wallen replied, “As you should.” The singer was later charged with three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.
