Unless someone's been murdered, I usually take alleged hate crimes with a grain of sugar and a grain of salt. The guy said he was attacked, okay. Then the details seemed fishy, so I considered that perhaps it was a real attack but he falsified the details.    As the days passed it seemed more and more unlikely that white MAGA people were behind it, but I still kept that under consideration because, as the people on /r/politics say, "truth is stranger than fiction". But at this point? There's no believing that narrative.