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I think scare quotes are quotes that are used ironically (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes). I guess the implication OP was picking up on was rather than referring to an actual quote of someone calling him a hero, that the news article was poking fun at this “so-called hero.”

As for the conspiracy, I’m not totally sure. Maybe we can see it as an attempt to delegitimize the hero’s actions (because he’s a minority??)? But there doesn’t seem to be too much evidence to support that from just the image, so we’d have to read the article.