@olireiv This is not what a lynching is. There are pictures and descriptions of what lynchings are that you can look up online. Or you can look at the recent lynching of Jordan Neely.
Well, it's the latest expression of the long-fashionable drive to target Thomas.
Like any fashion, it's hard to say exactly what brings it about, as different people sign on and follow the bandwagon for different reasons.
But yeah, they're targeting him because, for example, media outfits knew they'd have a built in audience, and built in clicks, for creating these stories.