Country music star Morgan Wallen denied to police that he threw a chair off a Nashville honky-tonk bar roof before and after he was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment in 2024, police video obtained by The Associated Press shows.

Roughly two weeks after his April 2024 arrest, Wallen commented on social media: “I'm not proud of my behavior, and I accept responsibility” and said he “made amends” with Nashville law enforcement and others. Then in December, he pleaded guilty to two counts.

The Metro Nashville Police Department released the footage of Wallen’s arrest, captured by several officers' body and cruiser cameras, in response to a public records request from the AP. A previously released arrest affidavit did not get into the details of what Wallen told officers.

A police car camera shows two officers, who were standing outside, react to something apparently falling from above on a late Sunday night. And one officer’s body camera video begins with a shot of a broken chair in the road near his parked police cruiser, close to Chief’s on Broadway, in the city's entertainment district.

When an officer asks Wallen what happened, the musician replies, “I don't know.”

“I don’t know what they are (expletive) talking about,” Wallen says. He later tells another officer, “We’ve not tried to cause no problems, man. I don’t know what they are — I don’t know why.”

That officer said police were figuring out what happened after a chair came flying off the roof and landed by his patrol car. Wallen replied, “As you should.”

Representatives for Wallen did not immediately have a response to questions from the AP.

Back in the bar, police were in an office watching security footage from the roof, body camera footage shows. The security video was not clear from the officers' body cameras and a police spokesman said there was no security camera footage from the bar in the case files.

The officers return outside and a sergeant, who says he watched security video of Wallen throwing a chair off the roof, handcuffs him.

Throughout the hour-and-half ordeal, Wallen makes apologetic comments to officers without explicitly admitting to anything, including: “I truly didn’t mean no harm,” “Sorry to cause problems, I didn't mean to,” and “God damn it, I am sorry man.”

Born and raised in Sneedville, Tennessee, the two-time Grammy nominee is one of the biggest names in contemporary popular music, loved for his earworm hooks and distinctive combination of bro country, dirt-rock and certain hallmarks of hip-hop.

His 2023 album, “One Thing at a Time,” broke Garth Brooks’ record for longest running No. 1 country album, and 2025’s “I’m The Problem,” spent 12 weeks at No. 1.

But his career has been marked by several controversies, including a 2020 arrest on public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges after being kicked out of Kid Rock’s bar in downtown Nashville.

In 2021, after a video surfaced of him using a racial slur, he was disqualified or limited from several award shows and received no Grammy nominations for his massively popular “Dangerous: The Double Album.”

Wallen was talkative in the cruiser, the footage shows, saying, “I ain't done nothing wrong."

Wallen pleaded guilty in December 2024 to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment. He was sentenced to spend seven days in a DUI education center and be under supervised probation for two years.

When the judge asked how he would plead, he said, “Conditionally guilty.” His attorney has said the charges will be eligible for dismissal and expungement after he completes probation.

Wallen's own Nashville honky tonk, not far from Chief’s, opened less than two months after his arrest.