US pop star Justin Bieber has commented on that previously reported rush of fans at a mall in Long Island, New York at the weekend, which saw the popster's public appearance there cancelled, Bieber himself refused entry, and Def Jam exec James Rappo arrested for refusing to tell fans to go home via Twitter.
Bieber told Ryan Seacrest's widely syndicated US radio show: "The mall, I guess, should have had more security. They weren't expecting 10,000 people to show up. Neither was I. I wanna see my fans. I don't wanna look like a jerk, like a no-show ... but when I got there the police threatened to put me in cuffs and take me and my mum to the penitentiary. They were threatening to put me in jail. They were like, 'If you don't pull off right now, we're gonna arrest you and your mother'".
He continued: "We're not trying to get deported - me and my mum are Canadian. We were just like, 'Whatever'. So we pulled off, went away and it turns out the cops were holding another person... the vice-president of the label. They had him and were like, 'If Justin doesn't Twitter for everyone to go home, then we're gonna send you to jail'. My phone was dead; I had no clue what was going on. They sent him to jail because I didn't Twitter on time".
He also revealed that he is attempting to reschedule the event, which seems optimistic.