In my town in Australia the rainbow at an intersection had paint thrown on it.

It was declared a hate crime, politicians came out with pandering statements to the Alphabet community, Alphabet people were interviewed in tears about how they were being attacked for just wanting to live, the police set up a taskforce to find the perpetrator and the City Prosecutor declared that the full force of the law would be applied to the perpetrator.

Then it was discovered from CCTV footage that a paint can had fallen off the back of a car and that it was a complete accident that the driver probably wasn't even aware of.

The narrative changed to how it was wonderful that the conversation was had.

Meanwhile, actual crime is completely out of control and the politicians say they have no ideas at all of what to do about it, but they are sure that sending people to prison for minor things like repeat assault, repeat violent robbery, repeat break-ins, and repeat thefts of cars will not do anything at all to reduce crime.