I think it was all a hoax, and a setup by the Left.
Like the swastikas and nooses, all done by black students.................
Either way, they’ve really slipped off the edge here. At least with the traditional faux hate crimes, the supposed crimes are actually acts no normal person would condone: vandalism, bodily mutilations... okay bacon slathered on the door of a mosque would be an obvious exception. :)
Outrage over a banana peel in a tree deserves all the ridicule it can get. I’ve spied banana peels hanging from bushes in my own yard (they get tossed and land wherever), so what’s the rap on that? They even turn black after a while. Shudder!