Bieber won the race, but his team isn’t celebrating.
New surveillance video, obtained by WFOR CBS Miami, showing the immediate aftermath of Justin Bieber’s wild ride down a sleepy Miami street shows the 19-year-old “Baby” singer — who Friday compared himself to Michael Jackson — leading the pack in a rented yellow Lamborghini.
Ferrari driver and fellow arrestee Khalil Sharieff, 19, also appears in the short clip, flanked by a pair of black Cadillac Escalades.
A single Miami Beach Police cruiser brings up the rear, suggesting it was shot just seconds before Bieber’s bust heard ’round the world.
According to cops, the pint-sized pop phenom was hopped up on a combination of pot, anti-depressants and beer while he was behind the wheel. Police said he cursed out his arresting officer with multiple F-bombs.
The Biebs later blew a 0.014 at the Miami Beach Police station, officials said.
The hard-partying heartthrob was defiant after his release from jail, brushing off new plans to get him help. He was holed up in his Miami party pad with father, Jeremy, 38; Sharieff; and his shotgun sweetie, Chantel Jeffries, 21, a bathing suit model once charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
He likened himself to the King of Pop on Instagram, posting side-by-side images of himself and Michael Jackson perched atop vehicles waving to fans amid pending criminal cases.
“What more can they say,” he wrote, ending the caption with a cartoon image of a crown.
Hours later, in his first post-arrest tweet, he thanked his fans. “You are all worthy no matter what anyone says,” he wrote. “Be strong. God is with us all. My Beliebers changed my life. I will forever be grateful.”
Sources said Bieber’s camp was planning to send a private jet to get the Canadian from Miami late Thursday. He refused, instead opting “to take the next few days off” at an undisclosed location.
“No one ever said he was getting on a plane, but there were contingencies in place if he was ready to do it,” one well-placed source said.
Bieber has been pushing back against manager Scooter Braun and other members of his team who want him in rehab, sources said. The relationship between Braun and Bieber has recently soured, partly because the man who discovered the singer has turned his attention to other clients, a music industry source told Confidenti@l. The manager might soon be getting the boot, the source said. Still, Braun tweeted sweet nothings after Bieber’s Thursday morning arrest. “Love you and I will act in the manner of someone who truly cares.” The Bieber team wasn’t happy with a photo that showed him with his pops near a table full of alcoholic beverage containers at the Miami rental hours after he made bail, sources said. “Scooter and the team have been encouraging him to go to rehab but he has denied there’s any issue,” one source said. Bieber may have at least some reason to celebrate, another source added, who questioned the reliability of his arrest report since it claims he reeked of alcohol even though he only blew 0.014. “It’s certainly something to point out,” the source said. "It wouldn't burn off that quickly. We're talking maybe 15 or 20 minutes (between his arrest and the breath test). It still doesn't make sense.” In any event, Bieber failed a series of sobriety tests at the scene, cops said. “He was not necessarily drunk but was indeed impaired by a combination of cannabis, alcohol and prescription drugs,” Miami Beach Police Sgt. Robert Hernandez told The News. In a related development, three police officers in the nearby city of Opa-Locka were suspended with pay for giving Bieber an unauthorized police escort from the airport Monday. Source
