“My God, who would do that?”
As public furor over the Jussie Smollett case begins to die down, an investigation into a potential hate crime against a small-town South Carolina mayor ended after police identified the culprit: Pollen.
Darnell Byrd-McPherson, volunteer mayor of Lamar, released a statement in early February alleging someone had vandalized her vehicles that week in an apparent hate crime.
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“My husband and our neighbor noticed the cars looked like someone had spray painted on both our vehicles, which were parked in our front yard,” she said in the statement. “As an aside, during the 70s, crosses were burned in the yard of our home when my Mother was involved with the civil rights movement. On this very same corner in this very same front yard!”
McPherson told Newsweek that she and her husband found a “yellow, sticky substance” on the cars. “I likened it as a hate crime because No. 1, there’s a history in our town of Lamar,” she said. “It ignited some fear in my spirit,” she said. “My God, who would do that?”
