I witnessed a stabbing in Berlin city center today Police pulled me aside "Can you describe the attacker?" "Tall. Maybe 180cm. Black jacket." "What was his ethnicity?" "I'm sorry?" I asked, shocked at this racially motivated question "Was he white? Black? Arab?" "I don't see how that's relevant" I replied "You're right" the officer agreed, and closed his notebook "I hope you find whoever did this using non-discriminatory policing methods" I said Justice will come. But it must come without bias The quiet racism of law enforcement is never an answer