There is no benefit in doing this unless they had something on him and made him do this. I don't know what the reason was, but if it doesn't smell right I can't help but to look at White Supremacy. Maybe he did hit a wall and couldn't afford to make a way, but go back to what I initially said about the cops hiring Black men for police lineups. What else would they pay them to do? Think about it. White Supremacy wants us hurting and desperate enough to sell our soul.
They forget about stories like this one from 2014, that exposed the fact that the NYPD uses homeless men as 'fillers'. Where are the majority of these so-called anti-Asian attacks coming from that places a Black face on hate crimes against Asians? New York.
These weren't robberies, these were just random attacks when something like that usually has economic deprivation at its core. You don't just up and want that kind of trouble in your life, it's usually someone without a dollar to their name or a meal on their plate in the Black community. Even that's rare, because you will usually see a cat begging for some change or a chick using a SIMP ahead of actual robbery.
They wanted to get us off their ass about our reparations and tangibles, so they brought all this stuff up and all these weird random attacks on Asians emerged. It changes nothing, we still demand our reparations and other tangibles and now there is even more of a reason create an anti-Black hate crime law. Asians experience less hate in the U.S. than us so there is more of a justification for us to get a law that protects us.
Observe what your non-Black friends have to say about it, because if they aren't on board then what does that say about them?
They use the men for any purpose they deem fit! That could include random attacks to demonize Black people.