Wallen denies throwing chair as police release Chiefs footage

Police body camera and cruiser footage released by the Metro Nashville Police Department show country star Morgan Wallen denying he threw a chair from the sixth floor roof of the Chiefs bar on Lower Broadway before and after his April 2024 arrest. The footage, made public after a records request, records officers responding to an object falling near their patrol car, witness statements, and Wallen’s interactions with law enforcement at the scene.

The video begins with officers reacting to a broken chair in the roadway near their cruiser outside Chiefs late on a Sunday night. Body camera footage captures members of Wallen’s party descending from the bar as one of his security team shouts that he did not see anything and that there were no witnesses. When an officer asks Wallen what happened, he replies, "I don't know." At another point he tells an officer, "We've not tried to cause no problems, man. I don't know what they are. I don't know why." In the patrol car, Wallen is recorded saying, "I ain't done nothing wrong."

Officers reviewed security video inside the bar, and a sergeant who said he watched footage of Wallen throwing a chair ordered him handcuffed, the recordings...