On October 27 at a subway station in the Berlin hipster neighborhood of Neukölln, a group of young men walked aggressively past a young woman slowly making her way down the stairs to the platform. One of the men walked up behind her and violently kicked the unsuspecting woman in the back causing her to fall brutally down the stairs, breaking her arm. The whole incident might have been relegated to a vicious but minor example of urban delinquency had it not been captured on surveillance video. Within days, everybody in Berlin—in Germany—had seen the clip. The images sent shockwaves through the city and unleashed a city-wide manhunt for the delinquent, later identified as a Bulgarian worker.
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