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Morgan Wallen 20-foot neon sign DENIED by Nashville city council due to arrest and racial slur controversy: 'You don't belong in this town'

Morgan Wallen's This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen is set to open in Nashville and permission from the Metro Nashville City Council was required before installation on the restaurant's sign moved ahead.

But the council voted overwhelmingly against the installation of the sign, with many taking offense to the prospect of advertising the name of an individual who has had brushes with the law and said racial slurs. 'I don't want to see a billboard up with the name of a person who's throwing chairs off of balconies and who is saying racial slurs,' at-large council member Delishia Porterfield said, according to the outlet. Wallen publicly spoke of his comments on Good Morning America on July 23, where he said that 'he was around some of his friends, and they say dumb stuff together' and said that 'he was wrong' to express those words.

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