Just to remind everyone, fake hate crimes are not rare
This case isn't exclusive, although the media doesn't make much of an effort to show how often these crimes are fake. More often than not it seems. Fake hate crimes are plentiful, and have been for a while. Stop listening to the lies that we are a country full of racist bigots. In fact, it happens so rarely that many, MANY people have needed to fabricate them due to lack of occurrence.
https://www.fakehatecrimes.org/