There seems to have been an emergence of racial hate crime hoaxes over the last few years.
The past decade has been marked by the ascension of Black Lives Matter, which has weaponized social justice into a tool to advance Marxism and a very lucrative activist grift.
They have pressured every major institution into hunting for racism, but because the supply of actual racism is relatively low, there is a constant market pressure to artificially create more.
The victim economy is rather large.
We therefore see examples of hate crime hoaxes bridging the gap, with minorities inventing racist incidents against themselves for reasons of garnering attention or building a platform. Look no further than black racecar driver Bubba Wallace and black actor Jussie Smollett.
LaTarsha Brown, a city employee in Allentown, Pennsylvania, claimed that she found a noose on her desk when she arrived at work one morning, prompting protests against racial injustice.