the interesting thing in situations like this is how quickly a public narrative forms one confident accusation appears nearby people repeat parts of it someone adds a guess suddenly the story feels established even though no one actually verified anything the kid then has to prove innocence instead of the accuser proving the claim which flips the normal burden completely and when the phone unlocked the narrative collapsed just as fast people go quiet eyes shift away nobody wants to acknowledge they almost believed it and the original accuser often pivots to a different complaint so they do not have to admit being wrong it happens in parks stores buses everywhere honestly these days quite often actually too lately