Justin Bieber Caught Speeding: “Police Were Not Nice About Speeding Ticket Stop”

Justin Bieber Caught Speeding: “Police Were Not Nice About Speeding Ticket Stop”

Justin Bieber said the police who ticketed him, when he had been trying to evade the pursuing paparazzi, were "not nice" while he was trying to explain what was going on.

The 911 call Justin Bieber made when paparazzi were following him on Friday has been released, and in it the singer can be heard telling a police officer that photographers were again pursuing him recklessly on a Los Angeles freeway.

In the recording, Bieber sounds unsure as he tells the dispatcher: "Um, I have like, five cars following me," he said.

The dispatcher asks the 18-year-old star his name, and he replies: "Justin."  When asked for his last name, he pauses, then answers, "Johnson."

Bieber made the call after he was ticketed earlier that day for speeding, and he's said he was driving fast to evade the aggressive paparazzi.

In that incident, police stopped the "Boyfriend" singer in his sports car - a $100,000 Fisker Karma - and gave him a ticket for driving more than 65 miles per hour.

In his 911 call, Bieber tells the dispatcher that the same paparazzi who had been pursuing him earlier were tailing him again as he was headed to work.

"They're driving really reckless. They just will not stop following me. I was driving fast so that I could try to get away from them and I got pulled over myself," he said. "When I explained to the police officers, they were being, like, not nice about it,” he added.

Dennis Zine, a Los Angeles City Councilman who witnessed Bieber trying to evade paparazzi before being ticketed, said the pop star was driving recklessly.

"As I watched, I was anticipating a crash," Zine said. "It was chaos. Total willful disregard for people on the roadway."

Bieber filed a formal complaint against the paparazzo, but TMZ reports that it’s "unlikely" the photographer will be prosecuted.

Posted by Kade Quinn on Wednesday July 11 2012, 5:12 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Entertainment, Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0