We have a country filled with victims for which there are no actual perpetrators. This goes on all the time now. Its mass delusion (along with outright fraud) spawned by a powerful incentive to become a victim due to todays victimhood culture. Victims are todays heroes, and as apparently demonstrated by this incident, there is no quicker way to gain sympathy and deflect negative attention from yourself than to concoct a quick victimhood tale. Jusses only problem is that he was really stupid and assembled a paper-thin story that a blind man could see right through.
And then his slavish MSM spent a week hyping the story, saying "we believe you," etc.