Legal Commentary

Stupid Arrest of the Week: Free Scooter Braun

By Jeralyn

Failure to tweet is now a crime on Long Island? This is pretty ridiculous. Here's the story. There's a teen pop star named Justin Bieber. In November, he had an appearance scheduled at a mall on Long Island. The place was mobbed. Police say the crowd got unruly and they told his manager, Scott "Scooter" Braun, to send out a tweet announcing the event was canceled. Police say he took too long.

The prosecutor says it took Braun 1 1/2 hours to send two tweets. Braun said it took seven minutes. Braun faces up to one year in jail if convicted on reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance.

Scooter turned himself in to police Wednesday afternoon and was arrested.

Since when is a booked guest's manager responsible for security? Isn't that the job of the store who booked his appearance, the mall or the police?

So who is Justin Bieber?

Bieber, 16, is a Canadian singer who was discovered on YouTube.

Here's Justin's twitter page. Here's a video of him singing (ok, so he is cute.) He has 1.5 million followers. #Free Scooter Braun is now trending on Twitter.

And on that, I'm calling it a night.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).