Yesterday (7), Zach Bryan was arrested in Oklahoma, and after leaving jail used his Instagram account to apologize.
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The country music star called himself “idiot” and “dumbass” for getting mad at the police officers who arrested him. He was arrested for obstruction of an investigation charge. In his Instagram story he explained that about three days ago he was driving through a small town in his home state, when he passed at high speed by a police officer. Then, the police pulled him over and asked for his license, registration and address.
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He then said that was not comfortable giving his address, because is a musician, and the police said that if didn’t give he was gonna take him to jail. He was asked to get out of the car and got handcuffed, so he finally said his address and got set free. “He gave me a warning ’cause I wasn’t going too fast or anything”.
But then on Thursday, he ran into the same cop while traveling to Boston to see Philadelphia Eagles’s season opener. His security guard, who was in a separate vehicle, was pulled over, and after 15 minutes waiting Bryan got out of his car and was asked to get back. “And I’m like, ‘I’m not the one getting pulled over.’ He’s like, ‘Get back in your vehicle or I’m gonna have to take you to jail.’ And like a dumbass, I said, ‘Take me to f–kin’ jail? What do you mean?”
“So I get too lippy with him. He brings me over to his car, and I just didn’t help my situation at all. I felt like a child. It was ridiculous. It was immature. And I just pray everyone knows that I don’t think I’m above the law. I was just being disrespectful, and I shouldn’t have been, and it was my mistake.” The police cuffed him again and took him to the police station.
“I just wanted to apologize to the trooper — both troopers — that I was rude to. You didn’t deserve it, and hopefully one day we meet under different circumstances.” This incident occurs days after his new self-titled album became hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the first in his career.