Berlin, after a token "preliminary investigation" to appease the outraged masses, has given child-endangerer Michael Jackson a clean bill of legal health over his inexplicable balcony performance with poor little Prince Michael ll (does this idiot think he is George Foreman?):

That was the consensus of investigators, who said they found no evidence of any wrongdoing and declined to pursue the case. "The police checks have shown that the actions are not punishable," Berlin police spokesman Norbert Gunkel tells the Associated Press. German prosecutors concurred. [E! online]

Jackson was in Berlin to accept an award as "pop artist of the millennium":

He doffed the mask and kicked off his acceptance speech with a shout out to the locals: "Berlin, ich liebe dich," which translates as "Berlin, I love you," and then encouraged Germany's children "to work for your dreams, work for your ideals." He closed by issuing a why-can't-we-all-get-along plea.

"We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu, we are black, we are white, we are a community of so many differences, so complex and yet so simple," Jackson said. "We do not need to have war."

Thanks for explaining that, Freak Boy. Much less well-known is the other award Jackson received in Berlin: "self-mutilating alien pedophile of the millennium."

More on the episode here and here.