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Justin Bieber Turns Himself In

Andrew Seah |
January 29, 2014 | 7:11 p.m. PST

Executive Producer

Bieber during happier times (NRK P3/Creative Commons)
Bieber during happier times (NRK P3/Creative Commons)
Justin Bieber turned himself in to Toronto police on Wednesday over an alleged assault on a limousine driver a month ago. The Canadian pop star’s arrival was a “chaotic scene” of rowdy fans and eager journalists, according to a CNN report

It has been a rough time for the 19-year-old as Bieber fever is once again back in national consciousness – but this time for all the wrong reasons. Bieber’s arrest today marks his second arrest in as many weeks. 

The teen idol was arrested in Miami Beach last week after police suspected him of driving under the influence. Bieber was allegedly drag racing along Pine Tree Drive with fellow recording artist Khalil Sharieff. Home surveillance footage, which has since surfaced online, revealed Bieber’s yellow Lamborgini speeding down along the residential street followed in close pursuit by Sharieff’s red Ferrari.  

Bieber’s ill-advised pursuits away from singing have turned off most of America, and there’s a growing legion of them who have taken their vitriol directly to the White House. A petition to deport Bieber, posted less than a week ago on the government’s “We The People” platform, has gained over 150,000 signatures. He has been labeled “destructive,” “reckless,” and a “terrible influence” according to the online petition.  

Bieber’s deportation still remains a slim possibility, although the country that played a pivotal role in his ascendance to pop stardom has now turned on him quickly – and somewhat surprisingly. It is not the way America has turned on him, but how quickly they’ve collectively thrown him under the bus, given the regularity of young Hollywood stars’ self-implosions. Of recent memory, Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan come to mind, but the public’s disapproval hovered within various levels of disappointment and outrage; it never manifested into a bandwagon hate fest that it appears to be at the moment. 

Bieber’s latest arrest marks a tumultuous stretch for the Ontario native and it seems things will only get worse in the weeks to come. 

 

 

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