Overview

• Metro Nashville police released body and cruiser camera footage via a public-records request that captures Wallen repeatedly denying he threw a chair from a rooftop.
• Officers on scene said they reviewed security video and gathered witness statements identifying Wallen, after which a sergeant handcuffed him outside Chief’s on Broadway.
• The chair fell from the bar’s sixth-floor roof and landed near police officers, triggering the investigation that night.
• Video shows Wallen calling bar co-owner Eric Church as an officer explains the investigation must proceed like it would for any other person.
• In December 2024, Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor reckless endangerment counts, receiving seven days at a DUI education center, two years of supervised probation, and potential expungement upon compliance.