In the age of the ubiquitous smartphone with awesome camera and microphone, video or it didn’t happen.
This is like John Lewis, Clyburn, et al walking thru a Tea Party protest and claiming racial epithets were thrown at them. Andrew Breitbart put up a $100k prize for video. No one collected.
This story is the first item here:
https://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
Exactly. Locally we had a “hate crime” where a few younger kids were called the N word and other words over the course of maybe 5-10 minutes. They were able to call friends and family, but strangely no video.