{"id":554705,"date":"2026-03-23T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554705\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:41:07","slug":"justin-timberlake-jokes-about-his-race-being-labeled-as-white-in-hamptons-dwi-arrest-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554705\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Timberlake jokes about his race being labeled as ‘white’ in Hamptons DWI arrest video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Timberlake was quite the comedian after being arrested in the Hamptons for DWI.<\/a><\/p>\n

Footage of the singer\u2019s June 2024 arrest was released Friday<\/a> after his unsuccessful legal attempt to block it.<\/a> During one light-hearted moment from the incident, Timberlake, 45, cracked a joke about his race being labeled \u201cwhite\u201d on a form he was asked to sign.<\/p>\n

After he was asked to look over his paperwork, he appeared confused as he looked up at an officer and questioned, \u201cWhite?\u201d<\/p>\n

When the officer laughed, he cracked, \u201cI\u2019m just kidding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justin Timberlake cracked a joke about his race being labeled \u201cwhite\u201d on his arrest paperwork in footage of the incident that was released Friday. AP<\/p>\n

Timberlake was arrested in the Hamptons in June 2024 for DWI. Police pulled him over after he allegedly ran a stop sign and swerved between lanes following a night out with friends. AP<\/p>\n

Timberlake himself chuckled, adding, I\u2019m just kidding, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Grammy-winning singer was jovial enough during the encounter with police officers, but he did appear to be in disbelief when told that he was going to have to spend the night in jail.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou guys are wild, man,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n

Timberlake was pulled over by police that night after he allegedly ran a stop sign and swerved between lanes following a night out with friends.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the nearly 20-minute video, he was pulled over in his gray 2025 BMW\u00a0and complied when asked to complete several tests.<\/p>\n

The singer then failed tests given to him by the officers. The Sag Harbor Village Police Department<\/p>\n

He was eventually handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car. The Sag Harbor Village Police Department<\/p>\n

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He seemed to be confused by the instructions as he told the officers, \u201cThese are, like, hard tests.\u201d<\/p>\n

He later stumbled a couple times while attempting to walk a straight line.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart\u2019s racing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A female friend arrived after he was handcuffed and put in the back of a squad car and tried to get him off the hook, though she was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Timberlake (seen here appearing in court for a hearing in his case in September 2024) eventually took a plea deal, which dropped his DWI charge to a traffic violation. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

His lawyer told Page Six a month after Timberlake\u2019s arrest that the singer was \u201cnot intoxicated\u201d at the time of his arrest. Timberlake\u2019s seen here talking to reporters following his court hearing in September 2024. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re arresting Justin Timberlake right now?\u201d she asked, later pleading, \u201cCan you guys please just do me a favor \u2019cause you loved \u2018Bye Bye Bye\u2019 or \u2018Sexyback?\u2019 Do me one favor!\u201d<\/p>\n

Timberlake signed off on a plea deal<\/a> dropping his DWI charge down to a traffic violation, which is not a criminal offense, in September 2024.<\/p>\n

Before hammering out the agreement, the \u201cRock Your Body\u201d singer pleaded not guilty to the original charges twice.<\/p>\n

His lawyer, Edward Burke Jr.,\u00a0<\/a>was previously adamant that the singer\u00a0was \u201cnot intoxicated\u201d\u00a0<\/a>at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police made a number of very significant errors in this case,\u201d Burke told Page Six a month after his client was arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Timberlake was quite the comedian after being arrested in the Hamptons for DWI. Footage of the singer\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,51710,362,75,19678,341,24308],"class_list":{"0":"post-554705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrity-arrests","12":"tag-celebrity-news","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-justin-timberlake","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-the-hamptons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}