Mayor: I Was The Victim Of A Racist Hate Crime. Cops: Not Even Close.

Darnell Byrd McPherson, the mayor of Lamar, South Carolina, believed she was victimized by a racist hate crime earlier this month when she found her and her husband’s cars covered in a “yellow, sticky substance.”

However, local authorities and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) have since confirmed that there was no crime committed, determining the “yellow, sticky substance” to be pollen.