[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] *Lamar Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson believed she was the victim of a hate crime after discovering a yellow, sticky substance on the hood of her car

*Police investigated after McPherson filed a report, as material was also found on her husband's car in the South Carolina town

*Cops later launched a probe and found that the substance was 'pollen'

*Before the probe McPherson said she was grateful the alleged culprits 'didn't take our lives' and hoped 'they would be identified and prosecuted'

A mayor believed she was the victim of a hate crime after finding a 'sticky, yellow substance' on her car which later turned out to be pollen.
No one else in town was effected. It was only her.
Police investigated the claims made by Lamar Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson, who reported that someone sprayed her 2017 Symphony Silver Hyundai Elantra Sport with a residue outside their home on February 7.
Sure they did.
The Mayor of the South Carolina town also claimed her husband’s soft-top 1998 Buick Roadmaster had been sprayed with a substance which 'got in all of the grooves' of the gray sedan.
"You know how hard it is to get that stuff out? Whatever that stuff is. It's probably poison. I just know it is."
Newsweek reported that McPherson had returned to her home and claimed her husband "went out to the car to get some things out of the garage. He says, "Somebody's painted your car!."'
"Damn, woman! Lookidat! We been spray concreted!"
It was a 'grainy substance' like industrial spray foam used to patch concrete and 'looked like little pebbles', McPherson said.
"I seen dat stuff before! Dey spray it on nooses and stuff!"
In a statement to WPDE-TV before police investigated the incident, the mayor said: 'During the 70s, crosses were burned in the yard of our home when my mother was involved with the civil rights movement.
"Dey wuz sprayed wid dat kind o' stuff, too! Went up like torches!"
'Again, we are grateful the person or persons did not try to take our lives but the culprits will be identified and prosecuted.
"We escaped a unknown dee-mise by the skin of our teeth!"
'Love conquers hate and my husband and I refuse to be intimidated by those who perpetrated this act of vandalism which I classify as an act of hatred.'
"Dat's right! We are Spartacus too!"