14 DAY TRIAL // It's probably nothing you haven't seen before if you're a Justin Bieber fan, since the Canadian singer likes to show off every new tattoo that he gets in Twitter, Instagram and just about every other social media outlet out there.
Still, the Miami police force has released the arrest photos for Mr. Bieber which show him taking off different bits of clothing in order to reveal the ink he's had done on several areas of his body. TMZ says the grand total of 18 photos is from his January 23 arrest.
In order of appearance, Justin's tattoos number a bible quote from Psalm 119:105 that says “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path,” a set of praying hands, a face of a weeping Jesus, his birth date in Roman numerals, a drawing of a crown, a native Indian head viewed from the side, a musical note and a Joker face with the word “Love” scribbled next to it.
The last photo shows a full sleeve tattoo, which is an amalgamation of elements, ranging from a tiger's head, what looks to be the Eye of God (or the symbol of the Illuminati), the title to his record-setting album “Believe” and some other assorted symbols.
Though Justin bills himself as “gangsta” or “street,” there's nothing about his tattoos to offer him street credibility. The only menacing thing in these photos is his utter disregard for personal hygiene, as the photos show the singer with some very dirty and nasty fingernails.
Speaking about Bieber's behavior during his arrest, the police has described the pop singer as “excited, talkative, profane, cooperative, insulting and cocky.”
The photos come to complete the material being released by police regarding his arrest, after they previously made public video footage from his cell, which showed Bieber inexplicably doing push-ups and then drunkenly stumbling during the field sobriety test.
It's also been reported that the pop artist's lawyers have managed to win the case in which they asked a judge to approve censoring his private parts that showed up in the jail footage. The Miami-Dade County Judge William Altfield ruled that two of the five videos from surveillance tapes he viewed had to be edited out of respect for the 20-year-old's privacy.
This request to ban distribution of the videos actually stalled the proceedings into Justin's trial that was supposed to start on March 3, 2014.