grindy

It's being reported in all the german media, including the state owned news, this way, despite them being usually very, very cautious about reporting the nationality. Seems to be legit.

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grindy

They have no idea whether it were current refugees, but yeah it was one specific group of foreigners.
And there was nothing usual about this whole thing, it's happened on a scale that's unheard of here and it also seemed pretty damn planned and coordinated.
No idea when the international reporting will pick up (it wasn't reported here until two days ago as well), but again: I live here. It happened. People are ****ing terrified. Deal with it.

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Chula Vista

And you know this because of your local news reports? Which of course are ridiculously country partisan?

I watched the entire vid. Seemed like things were going good for the most part. Then some idiots took it off the rails. Then it became us vs. them. So easy to blame the brown skins these days.

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grindy

I know this because all the media, including the usually super cautious state owned channels report it. Because the chief of police of cologne stated it in his official speech and the german police are extremely cautious as well.
The german media in general, although at times somewhat conservative, are never 'country partisan', it's not done this way here. Don't confuse germany and america.

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The Batlord

You're just mad at all your friends and family for being racists. Every news article I've looked at, from The Washington Post to the ones posted here, has said the exact same thing: thousand(ish) number of middle eastern males groped, raped, and robbed dozens of women.

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Trollheart

I think when someone is "on the ground", as it were, at one of these events you have to cede authority to them. Calling it BS when the guy who LIVES THERE is telling you it isn't is a little conceited and ill-advised. If this had happened in Ireland and I was telling you guys about it and you said "Meh, sounds like something being blown out of proportion" I'd be pissed at yea. Give the guy the benefit of being the man on the spot and listen to him, and don't be overriding what are basically facts he's giving you more or less firsthand with your own, uninformed and unconfirmed interpretation of how you think it went down.

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Frownland

He's viewing it through the American media lens, as grindy alluded to earlier. The bias is so proliferated in our media that we're skeptical of everything except for what we already agree with (I mean, who would lie and be on my side? Nobody). Tbh when I saw the link Goofle posted I thought it was just some right wing clickbait as well.

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Chula Vista

Nope. I don't watch USA news. Googled the story and not much came up. Major news events drown google with hits from all over the planet.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

grindy

He's practicing his counterarguments for their upcoming Facebook posts about this story.

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Cuthbert

Ms. Reker, Mayor of Cologne suggests the following advise:

The proposed code of conduct includes staying an arm's length away from strangers, remaining within your own group, and asking bystanders for intervene or to help as a witness.

Fun times ahead in Cologne, staying out of reach ffs!

May as well go one further and say stay at home and lock all your doors and windows.