I think you may be misinterpreting. I don't think he was saying that refs are targeting Europeans, but rather that Europeans may find 10m to be a little longer in North America than Europe and thus find themselves getting dinged here. I don't necessarily believe this, but I think that is what he is getting at.

re: video, at least in the US, USAT puts the onus on it's officials to gather the evidence in order to defend the penalty in case of protest. This is done with paper and pen on the back of a motorcycle. I hypothesize that in the day and age of gopro cameras that this evidence could be better collected that way. That does not mean that I do not agree with you that the onus should not be on the referee to produce evidence to defend his decisions, however current protocol in USA is that it is.