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D.J. Newbill arrested by German authorities

Personally I was at work and did not have time to 'fact check' and quite honestly - it doesn't matter if he travelled to Europe with the PSU Basketball team. In this instance he was alone - travelling alone for the first time out of country. I will stand by my statement that his agent could have, and should have, had an agent from the French team travel with him. It solves so many potential issues - so would having had him fly direct. No need what-so-ever to travel through Germany.

Ten - Yes. He is a young black man, and to make matters worse he is from The USA. I've lived in Germany, I've seen fellow Americans (all colors and creeds) 'detained' by the Poliezi for nothing less than walking down the street. A friend of mine was arrested for defending himself when he got separated from a group of us while exiting a bar in Aachen, he was jumped by 6 youths who did not like Americans living in their country. He injured one of them and was arrested. He missed morning formation and was listed AWOL until we were able track him down. For those that have not lived outside the USA they have no idea what it is like outside our borders.

I have. Sorry about that. I've probably spent close to a year in Germany all told. I was detained by the police momentarily once. For "jaywalking". But that was in East Berlin while the Wall was still up--and they had machine guns. Oh, I almost got a traffic ticket in Cologne in 2013 for mistaking a loading area for a hotel drop off. To be fair, I do speak German.

And I repeat. How is not checking the facts any excuse for anyone. We complain about others doing it to us with the Sandusky situation. It's lazy.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
--Sherlock Holmes as recorded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
 
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Come on Ten... you are smarter than this.

He has never travelled outside the US, he was travelling alone, supposedly reporting to a French basketball club. He does not speak French, nor does he speak German. Why on Earth was he travelling through Germany? His agent couldn't find a direct flight from the US to Paris? His agent should have arranged for a representative of the French team to meet him in the US and accompany him to France. When you are flying international and you do not speak the native tongue it is 100% acceptable for a translator to accompany you through customs. This whole situation could have been easily avoided by anyone with an ounce of gray matter between their ears (this is a knock on the agent NOT DJ).

As someone who lived outside of the U.S. for about a decade I'd like to say, as respectfully as possible, that this is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen posted here.
 
UPDATE: Newbill's agent says he was en route to France early Monday morning, and that he was never actually arrested — just interrogated. "Just to correct one thing, DJ was not arrested on suspicion of terrorism, he was interrogated because of not presenting a long stay visa when entering shengen zone to play professional basketball," his agent told StateCollege.com early Tuesday. "Only during interrogation did the officials ask weird questions, which seem to be part of a silly protocol."

Sounds like his agent is a dummy
"Sounds like his agent is a dummy"...Or Cynthia Baldwin.
 
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This incident seems to be lacking in detail and is silly on the face of it assuming there's no truth to the "terror" interpretation. Sounds like a crock.
 
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