Surveillance footage captured the moment country music star Morgan Wallen allegedly threw a chair off the roof of a Nashville bar, narrowly escaping a police officer on the ground Sunday night. It is reported that.
blurry clip, Obtained by TMZdepicts an unidentified object flying over the side of the roof of Chief’s Bar and immediately plummeting to the ground on the downtown street below.
Warren, 30, was arrested shortly after 10:45 p.m. after he allegedly threw a chair over the edge of the sixth-floor rooftop of a Broadway bar owned by fellow country singer Erich Church.
The sheet landed just three feet away from a Nashville Police Department officer on the ground, the police department said.
The “Wasted on You” singer was booked into the Davidson County Jail just after 12:30 a.m. Monday on three counts of reckless endangerment and one count of disorderly conduct.
Warren flashed a cheeky smile in a mug shot released by police.
His bail was set at $15,250, which he posted and was released around 3:30 a.m.
“At 10:53 Sunday night, Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville on suspicion of reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct,” his attorney Warrick Robinson told the Post in a statement. “He is fully cooperating with authorities.”
Bar patrons who witnessed the chair-throwing and arrest claimed the “Someone’s Problem” hitmaker laughed after the ordeal.
This alleged reckless act is not the first time Warren has been found in the back of a police cruiser after a night out in Nashville.
he arrested In May 2020, he was charged with intoxication and disorderly conduct after being kicked out of Kid Rock’s Honky Tonk Bar in downtown Nashville. He later apologized for his own actions in X.
The country singer, known for hits such as “Whiskey Glasses” and “Last Night,” was also charged with drunk driving in 2016, but the case was dismissed.
He was also in the news for all the wrong reasons in February 2021 after he was overheard using the N-word in a video recorded by a neighbor in Nashville. Obtained by TMZ.
He apologized for using the racial slur, claiming he uttered it “in the 72nd hour of a 72-hour workday.”
“There are no excuses. I have never made an excuse. I will never make an excuse,” said Warren, 30. told Billboard.
Warren’s next court date is set for May 3, the newspaper said. davidson county criminal court.
The newspaper has contacted Warren’s representatives for comment.
