A few days ago, we reported how Justin Bieber was suspected of battery during a “physical altercation” with a pap, which still remains a mighty hilarious story because who would ever want to admit that they got their ass kicked by the Bieb? Sure enough, the photographer has filed a report with the police (naming Bieber as the ass kicker), and prosecutors are looking to officially question Bieber when he returns from business in Norway. If he’s found guilty of criminal battery, Biebs could spend six months in the slammer. Can you imagine?
Justin Bieber’s brawl with a photog over the weekend isn’t going to just disappear … TMZ has learned the case WILL be referred to the L.A. County D.A. for possible criminal prosecution.
We’re told cops have already decided to refer the case to prosecutors, even though the investigation is far from complete. They have requested to interview the Biebs, but he’s in Norway now. It’s pretty typical for police to refer high-profile cases to prosecutors.
TMZ broke the story … Bieber’s a suspect for allegedly committing criminal battery against a photog in Calabasas Sunday afternoon. The photog called 911 after the scuffle, but by the time cops arrived, the singer had split.
The pap was taken to a nearby hospital in an ambulance. He then filed a police report naming Bieber as the culprit.
If Bieber is charged and convicted, he’d face 6 months in jail. But the photog faces an even worse fate — having to tell people Justin Bieber kicked his ass.
[From TMZ]
We all know Justin Bieber will never serve jail time for this alleged crime. Even if he’s guilty of serving a genuine beat down, Biebs will pay the photog off before any mention of legal proceedings. In related news, Lainey has a story about how Justin might have had a major fight with girlfriend Selena Gomez that soured his mood before the alleged pap-smackdown incident occurred. According to this take, Justin tweeted “thank you for the time i had with you but i have to move on now” a few days prior to the pap incident. If a breakup actually happened, then obviously Justin and Selena got back together. Ah, young love.
Photos courtesy Fame/Flynet
This is totally going to help him build his street cred. Holla.
First thing that crossed my mind as well.
Me too- eventually he’ll have “Gangsta Thug” tatoo’d across his manly chest and we will all swoon for him.
What you said.
…which still remains a mighty hilarious story because who would ever want to admit that they got their ass kicked by the Bieb?
Hey, angry children throwing tantruns sometimes are so out of control that they end up hurting other people! Bieber is built like a 12-year-old so I say it’s entirely possible that he could hurt someone.
I’m sensing he’s got a bit of ‘roid rage going on. He just strikes me as being vain enough to do steroids to look more masculine. I’ve suspected he’s taken a lot of the being a girl comments to heart. Plus he’s been hanging around Floyd Mayweather and a lot of other shady characters. Something strange is going on with him aside from normal male adolescent rushes of testosterone.
Well, tell him the roids aren’t working. He still looks like a little boy.
If he didn’t dress so strangely , I would agree with you. But the way he dresses, he does not seem to give a s h i t about looking like a girl!I am constantly amazed at how stupid he looks, and he keeps topping it. I didn’t even know such stupid clothes existed. Not to mention the makeup and his stupid ass hair too.
I have to agree here.
Good observation, LeeLoo. I found it strange too that he was “training” with Mike Tyson… It was just too bizarre that I didn’t believe it the first time I heard it. And now reports of him being friends with this Merryweather fellow and Chris Brown. Not to say Justin Bieber is a woman beater, but hanging around men who have such poor attitudes when it comes to women, has to have some kind of effect on him.
Yes! I can’t stand the kid. He seems like he’s not at all the nice and clean guy he portrays.
Let’s clarify: he seems like a douche.
After seeing some interviews with the kid, I can’t really believe Selena is seriously dating him. He has the maturity of a 10 year old. She has to be doing this for the fame, no way she would voluntarily hang around this brat.
And I do think that he could hurt someone. People who are spoiled can be very dangerous because they know no limits (see Lindsey hijacking a car with hostages).
I’ve always thought that him and Selena were PR as well. Nobody knew who Selena was until she started dating him. They both are benefiting from it though. Shes getting fame and hes being portrayed as the perfect boyfriend.
Yeah i wouldn’t put it past them because after all this is hollywood where most things are staged. I really dont think they will last as a couple.
Honestly, I believe she does like him and doesn’t “see” the immaturity, because in the end she’s just as shallow and vapid as he is, it just isn’t that obvious because she’s a sweet kid and knows how to present herself well. I’m not hating her for it, I mean what did you expect, it’s Hollywood after all.
RocketMerry – I agree with you 100%.
Hope this doesn’t get swept under the rug. But it will.
Agreed. I think he’s incredibly annoying and probably a huge douche.
Jess- Selena Gomez was very well known before she started going with Justin Bieber. She was in a wildly successful tv show that was very well done, and she started out strong as an actor in it and got better and better. Also did very well in leading roles on Disney tv movies (showed real skills for drama as well as comedy) and was getting into theater movies. She’s had quite a few music videos on the Disney Channel that are actually fun to watch because she is such a good actor, it doesn’t matter that she needs digital enhancement and a magic microphone… (Singing is not really her gift, but The Mouse and Nickelodeon push all their popular actors into it.) Just because you didn’t know who she was doesn’t mean a lot of other people didn’t. I knew much more about her than I did about Bieber. She had absolutely no need to date Bieber for publicity. If anything, the insane publicity and fan rage that goes along with proximity to The Bieber was an impediment to the relationship. Gomez has not shown any interest in becoming tabloid fodder, she keeps pretty much out of view except in connection with her work.
Sorry, I need to laugh!
No need to be sorry!!! ☻
And the thought of inmates waiting for him to arrive makes me laugh so hard.
Baby, baby baby OH ☻
Yeah, I would not shower if I was him.
In L.A. county? Right. He’d get 2 hours of community service if he’d have beaten the guy within an inch of his life.
Ha ha ha, seriously-money or not, who the hell would EVER admit to being smacked around by Beiber, that is pathetic. And if I were that guys friend, I would taunt him mercilessliy.
I will taunt him mercilessly, and I don’t even know him. Nothing but a blatant cash-grab on his part (not that that excuses bad behaviour on either party’s side, and BOTH were to blame).
I hope JB’s “people” call this pap’s bluff, and make him go to court. Can you IMAGINE the scene? TMZ coverage; all the other paps; all of Beib’s rabid fan-girls? That pap’ll never work in this town again!
haha, if he thinks Beibs beat him up, just imagine what those fangirls will do!
Glad you said that. If the pap was truly hurt, that is one thing, but wasn’t there an attorney on-scene, coaching the pap to call the cops and seek medical help? All to add to his alleged “damages”. He will probably also miss some time from work and come back wearing a neck brace! The attorney probably thought for all his stellar advice, the pap would retain him and the atty would eventually get his required 1/3 fee of whatever the pap rcovers. The pap probably didn’t even retain him. Just took off in the ambulance, contemplating his windfall. I dunno, faking injuries, damages, if that is what’s happening here, really bugs me.
The photographer was probably pushed by him, and thought ker-ching! Then he is rushed off to hospital with dollar signs in his eyes, and is able to live with the fact that others will think Bieber has beaten him down.Perhaps the money he thinks is coming will be worth the embarassment.
Hey!? Wow.. Ima roiding rage..What ya say creep? Gear,. move yer rear.. I’m comin’ at ya.. stand back.. fists of fury.. HOT Foot? Ah shoe fell off..! Time to die in my slaughterhouse mate! Take that! and more, he fell down, chicken.. don’t get up! HA HAH HA!
huh??!!
What do you expect? His role models are Floyd Mayweather and Chris Brown, and I think now he thinks he is a gangster. On the other hand, how pathetic this pap must be to try to get money out of Beibs by saying he beat him up. What a total loser. What next, Miley Cyrus gonna kick his ass?
I’d pay to see that. Miley would pwn his @ss.
I think I would actually pay to see that too….☻
The pap will settle “out of court”. Besides, even if the pap lays charges, the most Justin will get is “community service” since he’s a first time offender and has no previous record. Wonder if not being an American Citizen will affect any of this?
Also, some of his fans witnessed the event take place and said “Justin didn’t hit anyone”….everyone has a phone now a days so where is the video footage of this happening????
If so, his country of origin and new country will both be interested in his residency. Canada does not screw around and neither does the US.
This is the only bit that interests me (I first saw JB during footage of the “We ARe the World” redux for…Haiti? and thought, “Who’s the baby next to Bono?” My opinion hasn’t changed much since). Is he an American citizen? What are the protocols for charging someone from a different country? Would he be extradited to Canada?
No offense to Canadian Celebitches, but I have to laugh at “being extradited to Canada”. Y’all have such a (well-earned, I might add) reputation for being nice that it doesn’t sound like too harsh a punishment!
Extradition occurs when someone who is no longer in a country has committed a crime there and is wanted there. Other than crimes against taste, JB has committed no offence in Canada, so there is no extradition. Although he is not particularly wanted there, he will always be allowed to come back. Countries always have to accept their citizens, regardless how heinous a crime they may have committed on domestic or foreign soils.
Dollars to doughnuts, JB will not be charged for a criminal offence. On the slight odds that he is, and then convicted, if it is a serious crime with a serious sentence (and that ain’t gonna happen in California), the US could deport him to Cda.but even if he gets 6 months (the max sentence), I don’t think that that is serious enough for deportation. As another poster has said, the pap’s intentions aren’t for criminal court, it’s for the big bucks of civil court, and even if JB loses there, he won’t be deported for that.
If he ends up in jail, whilst Blohan & Bynes (a modern day Bonnie & Clyde, they are) are free to continue terrorizing LA County and the rest of the country with their “bumper cars competition,” I will PAY one of our local-area CB’ers to go slap that prosecutor and/or judge. (I’d do it myself, but I’m in NoCali now.)
Heeheehee … his pants pocket is made from dollar bill printed fabric.
He’s gonna wish those dollars were real when he’s working at a bike shop like Vanilla Ice.
🙂
And what does the pap get for deliberately blocking Beiebs vehicle and refusing to move? I have no use for the baby Biebs but this situation stinks…. pap totally baited him hoping for this exact kind of reaction – Biebs should have beaten the holy hell out of the guy with his little purple tennie…
The pap DID bait him (I heard that Selena dropped her phone and the pap grabbed it, she started crying, Biebs freaked)….However, legally you still can’t beat someone up over it. As an adult, a person needs to take responsbility for their actions.
If the pap had just taken her phone, Beibs could be the one bringing the legal action.
Hi Tiffany, of course you’re right and it’s not a good idea to whump someone’s ass (no matter how well deserved) but I still can’t get the thought of Biebs whacking the sh*t out of pap with his purple runner out of my head 🙂 Sadly that is exactly what scum pap was hoping for and kiddo played right into it… I just hope the court sees that and goes after pap too. And Biebs needs to stop trying to be “normal guy” and start taking security detail with him everywhere. Geez, what a life for a kid eh?
I don’t know why they even bother floating these stories-he’s isn’t going to serve any jail time and he’ll probably barely get probation. It cracks me up that prosecutors think that anyone would believe that would happen.
The pictures are hysterical. Nice stripey socks, kid. They go well with the “The spirit of Satan has just entered my body” expression on his face.
Hahaha, I noticed that too. Evil Baby side-eye alert!
LOL at your second paragraph. As for your first, it may seem useless but if the police / prosecutors said “oh, well, he is Justin Beiber and he’s never going to jail,” everyone would scream bloody murder about him getting preferential treatment b/c he is rich, a celeb, blah, blah, blah. So, they are doing their job as they have to. It’s the blogs that are spending way too much time on this.
If it’s been handed to the District Attorney, then it doesn’t matter what the pap wants. The D.A. can bring charges against someone without consent of the victim. When he’s questioned, I’m sure the District Attorney’s office will decide whether or not they have a strong enough case to file the charges against him. Now if the victim wants to take Bieber to court for a civil case, he could take a settlement and drop the case.
He looks extremely menacing in that first pic. What a douchenoozle tell me again is this the tweener heartthrob.
No amount of settlement money should be worth a grown man admitting he got beat up by Bieber. That’s just sad.
I think Beiber is ok, but I think what he did was really stupid.
The paps deserve a beat down. Its one thing to take a picture of celebrity from across the street but they get right in their faces. I remember how they use to follow Britney around, following her into Starbucks,standing outside her gate. IMO, paps are just legal stalkers.
There needs to be laws against it at least in California and New York, because it’s highly dangerous.
I agree with you about the paps in general…however Britney used to call them herself. X-17 said that she would call them when she was “lost” and tell them where to find her. Britney and Lindsey Lohan were mentioned in a lawsuit where Kitson sued the paparazzi when they DIDN’T take pictures of stars in their stores (they had agreements with the stars for the pictures).
Not all paparazzi pictures are the same.
Why does it look like he’s getting dressed on the street, and that Selena Gomez is helping him?
cuz he lost his shoe in a scuffle ( allegedly)
Please, this is the American judicial system we’re talking.
A) This story is getting blown out of proportion. This was probably no more than a shoving match, but the photog wants some cash.
B) They aren’t going to send this little white boy to jail unless he kills someone, even then, the lawyers and judged would bend over backwards to minimize punishment. They probably won’t even charge him or bring him in for questioning.
Am I the only one who wants to know why his shoes came off??? Where are his hoop earrings? LOL Or was he just shoeless for some reason?
I think Bieber has taken a leaf out of Rhiannah’s tuff gansta playbook. He’ll be hanging with Snoop Doggy next LOL. He’s such a “hero” (heavy sarcasm there).
He’s about as likely to serve jail time as Lindsay.
Ha. I saw the news and thought the same thing. Who wants to admit they got beat by the Bieb? I’d be mad too if I was a 17 year old boy that looked like a 10 year old girl.
He’s going to write songs about life on the inside, you dont even know. Biebs is a hard thug now. AHAHAHA He’s going to be on summary probation too! This is awesome.
a six month Jail sentence for simple battery is over doing it the guy was asking for it by blocking Justin’s Car in
This is such a non-story. A first time offender isn’t going to get the maximum sentence. Based on photos, the pap wasn’t even injured. From reports there was no beatdown just pushing.
He’s a narcissistic abusive douche. He’s already gotten aggressively physical with that girl and everyone knows it. He knows what he’s doing and I can’t wait to watch it all go down.
Who???what girl??? I call BS on if comment.
Vood thing is that this Bieber felon cannot run away very fast because his pant are already falling off his a**, ridiculous!
There isn’t a paycheck big enough for me to admit that I got beat up by a kid named Justin, much less a Justin wearing purple sneakers.
My ol’ man said they took a vote and they want the photog to turn in his Man card.
Oh, and if Lindsay Lohan can pull her crackshanigans for years and only get a slap on the wrist, does anyone really…(I mean seriously) think Bieberboy would get anything more than a pat on the backside and maybe a diaper change.
Please, he’s 5’4″ tops and barely weighs 125lbs and if he hurt a grown man if was a fluke. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out lil douche and the pap were in on this to feed his widdle ego and pretend he’s tough. All of these little weasels act the same. Chris Brown Jr.
Beating a paparazzo ought to get you an award, not an arrest.
Nothing else about him is really worth defending, but dude’s a teenager, how tall and muscular does the peanut gallery want him to be? People run down female celebrities all the time for making themselves look older through styling and behaviour, now this kid looks young and it’s a capital offence. If I could choose my height, I would be happy to be tall enough to not have to ask strangers to get things off of shelves for me and I certainly wouldn’t be half a foot shorter than my two sisters, but you make do.
All of the other problems people have with him are valid. Fire at will. Look up Stratford ON for evidence of his ‘hardscrabble’ early years. I love Stratford, actually, imagine Stars Hollow with more ice cream stores, Presbyterians, a big ol’ timey toy store where I would get stickers and such for my students when I was a piano teacher, Shakespeare, classical music festivals and swans/gazebos.
Careful now, Justin Van Winkle.
I’ve never understood the Bieber hatefest. Lessee- he’s an adolescent male, so the complaints have been that he “looks like a girl” and “sounds like a girl”, which first of all tells us that the worst thing in the world must be looking and sounding like a girl, since girls are so icky. It also tells us that a lot of people somehow managed to find a way to skip adolescence entirely, going from boy soprano to deep bass overnight and going from the softer features of boyhood (which golly gee, do resemble young female features, how icky) to Arnold Schwarzenegger after a good 8 hour sleep. And he “dresses like a girl”????? That’s really baffling, they all dress the same way these days. His hair???!!! Geez, thought we were over the hate for long hair on boys “because it makes them look like girls”. Even when he cut it shorter, the complaints continued.
All I see is a kid, just barely 18, who actually learned how to sing BEFORE getting famous – so even if I don’t understand the wild appeal or even the lyrics, I can certainly tell that at least he uses his voice as a real instrument and doesn’t need electronic enhancement. That puts him way ahead of the vast majority of singers peddled to the young, and means that he just might have a real career as an adult. Oh, well. My parents were convinced the world would end because of that awful young Elvis Presley corrupting us with his swiveling hips, and then it was The Beatles with their long hair that “made them look like girls” and their wild tunes. Well, the Beatles’ hair got much much longer but the world is still here. Think we’ll survive Justin Bieber quite well, and Bieber will also survive.
not a huge fan of the Biebs.. but I respect that he did learn to sing before he got famous.. and he isn’t the kid of some industry bigwig whose fame and career were paid for by Daddy.
Plus the paparazzi are evil. It’s one thing to take a shot from across the street… but these jerks should not be allowed to bully celebrities for money. That’s really what paps do.. they bully their prey, get a shot, spin some horrid story and get paid for it.
Team Anyone But Paparazzi.
He’s a “Super Star” in Hollyweird, we all know that celebrities in California don’t pay for their crimes like the rest of us, they get to go free.
So what exactly did petite Justin do to this grown man? Kick him in the crotch?
Assault is assault. No one is immune from charges. This little girl Bieber is about to get what she deserves. Seriously pull your damn pants up and wear some big boy socks!!
“A few days ago, we reported how Justin Bieber was suspected of battery during a “physical altercation” with a pap, which still remains a mighty hilarious story because who would ever want to admit that they got their ass kicked by the Bieb?”
Yay for violence. Don’t worry, it’s okay to find it funny because it’s that guy who does music so many dislike. Am I right, guys? It’s okay to laugh at someone being assaulted, because they were attacked by the person we all know so much about!
Justin Bieber could also be serving jail time of 6 months, giving him a criminal record and letting all his young fanbase, who follow his influence and look up to him, know that he attacked someone. Hilarious!
What Justin Bieber or the photographer does for a living shouldn’t impact on your judgement on something as serious as this, whether Justin is charged or not. Are we ignoring the fact that someone got attacked, just because the person assaulting the photographer was Justin Bieber? Christ.