Morgan Wallen’s arrest footage from 2024 police bodycams is circulating. And in the footage, Wallen is seen denying that he threw a chair off the roof of a Nashville honky-tonk bar before and after he was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment.
The country artist is not only known for his hit songs, including Last Night, You Proof, I Had Some Help, and Chasin’ You, but is also seen as a bit of a bad boy in the music scene. Wallen has a history of disobeying the law, including his 2016 misdemeanor DUI, his 2020 arrest outside of Kid Rock’s Honky Tonk bar for harassing patrons, to his 2024 arrest at Eric Chruch’s bar for throwing a chair off the roof.
For the 2024 arrest, there is police video obtained by The Associated Press that shows the music star being arrested, with footage captured by several officers’ body and cruiser cameras, in response to a public records request from the AP.
The footage captures Wallen being escorted out of the bar by the cops, with one asking, “What happened?”, and Wallen replying with, “I don’t know.”
A few moments later, someone off camera confirms, “He’s the one that threw the chair,” while another person insists Wallen had nothing to do with it.
At one point, Wallen makes a phone call to Eric Church, the owner of the bar. Wallen told the country singer and bar owner that the police were “trying to take me to jail outside of your f—- bar.”
Police reviewed footage inside Chief’s bar and saw that Wallen did actually throw a chair off the roof. The video shows Wallen being cuffed and placed in a police cruiser, and then Wallen insisting that he’s innocent, saying, “I ain’t done nothing wrong.”
Wallen was originally booked on three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor for disorderly conduct. After his arrest, Wallen released a statement saying, “I’m not proud of my behavior, and I accept responsibility.”
Wallen pleaded guilty last December to reduced misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment without a weapon and was given a two-year suspended sentence, except for seven days “incarceration in a DUI education center,” followed by two years of probation.