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.