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Media Breathlessly Covered a ‘Hate Crime’ by White Middle Schoolers Against a Black Classmate: It Was a Giant Hoax
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 2/2/26 | Eliana Johnson

Posted on 02/02/2026 4:43:09 AM PST by Eleutheria5

When the mother of a black Texas middle schooler claimed in 2021 that a group of white students made her son drink urine, media outlets from NBC to CNN and ABC covered the story. “Texas authorities investigating allegations of racism and bullying of a 13-year-old by his classmates during sleepover,” a CNN headline blared. Nearly five years later, we’re learning it was a giant hoax. None of the outlets that covered the case have written follow-up stories despite the lurid (and defamatory) nature of the allegations...

Last month, a Texas district court judge in Collin County, in suburban Dallas, ordered the “victim’s” mother, Summer Smith, and her attorney, Kim Cole, to pay $3.2 million in damages to the white student they accused of bullying. A racially diverse jury ruled that they cooked up the allegations to raise their profiles and rake in nearly $120,000 in GoFundMe donations at the height of the BLM hysteria.

Mainstream media coverage was a key part of the plan. Smith and her son, along with Cole, discussed the hoax on Good Morning America, where co-anchor Linsey Davis promoted the GoFundMe to the ABC program’s millions of viewers, promising that funds raised would pay for “therapy and private schooling.” In fact, account statements show Smith spent the overwhelming majority of the funds on luxuries including “a designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent,” our Andrew Kerr reports. Good Morning America has not followed up. Smith said she plans to appeal.

Kerr talked to the student who was falsely accused of organizing the attack, Asher Vann, who is now a college freshman.

“I was getting death threats from thousands of people on social media. People leaked my address and my name. ...

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(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.substack.com ...


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KEYWORDS: blackhoax; defamationsuit; hatecrime; hoax; msmcatfished; texas
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How many hoaxes like this have their been?

In NYC alone, there was Tawana Brawley, those two kids who spray-painted their own faces white and said racists did it. In Yonkers, there was civil rights "activist" who put racially charged graffiti on a wall opposite her apartment, but got caught doing it on film. Then in Chicago there's "Juicy" Smollet. That's what comes immediately to mind. I know I missed a lot. Please add to the list.

1 posted on 02/02/2026 4:43:09 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

I’m sure there are plenty of cases that do not get documented. There are a lot here:

https://www.fakehatecrimes.org/

And it appears at first glance that hasn’t been well updated for almost a year.


2 posted on 02/02/2026 4:46:29 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Eleutheria5
At some point should not the Lamestream Media be declared a public utility and be required to be objective.

Was it Einstein who said that news outlets will someday be bought by rich men and then we'll have nothing but slanted news?

3 posted on 02/02/2026 4:50:40 AM PST by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: FreedomPoster

I see it’s not just white-on-black fakery lately. People like this need to be punished regardless of the identity of the “victim” and the “perp”. It’s intolerable.


4 posted on 02/02/2026 4:56:41 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: Eleutheria5

The ultimate one for me was the Duke Lacrosse hoax, it was a massive national media event that the entire system of college, media, the legal system and local government all worked together on.


5 posted on 02/02/2026 4:57:45 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: LouAvul

“At some point should not the Lamestream Media be declared a public utility and be required to be objective.”

So then you’ll have state sanctioned censorship, as well as state sponsored hoaxes, such as Covid and J6. Let the rich men buy and slant away. Elon Musk saved us all by buying Twitter. Everybody can slant their own kind of music, sing their own special songs, and prove one another wrong. This Washington Free Beacon story is just another example of that dynamic at work.


6 posted on 02/02/2026 5:00:03 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: Eleutheria5

It appears the attorney Kim Cole has not been disciplined by the State Bar of Texas. Some animals are more equal than others.


7 posted on 02/02/2026 5:01:27 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: ansel12
The Boy Who Cried Racist



WHO YOU CALLING "BOY," RACIST!
8 posted on 02/02/2026 5:03:44 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: Eleutheria5

Good verdict - hope they push hard for any money.


9 posted on 02/02/2026 5:06:01 AM PST by Fury
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To: Eleutheria5

The man is a professional Negro

He is Black for a living

Did he march?

I can’t remember. I doubt a New Yorker could ever find his way down south


10 posted on 02/02/2026 5:07:43 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Eleutheria5

Racism and White supremacy is so abundant in the US they have to make it up.

EC


11 posted on 02/02/2026 5:09:30 AM PST by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)
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To: Eleutheria5

The demand for White on Black racism greatly exceeds supply. Black on White racism? SHUT UP you racist!


12 posted on 02/02/2026 5:09:38 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: LouAvul
...Was it Einstein who said that news outlets will someday be bought by rich men ...

Ha! Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle," referring to newspapers, in an 1807 letter to John Norvell. He expressed intense distrust of the press, famously adding, "the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them".

13 posted on 02/02/2026 5:14:05 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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“I was getting death threats from thousands of people on social media. People leaked my address and my name. ... “

It appears that there is a rich vein of doxxers for some enterprising legal beagles to mine.

Doxxing is illegal if the text includes threats, etc.


14 posted on 02/02/2026 5:17:19 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Election 2020 was stolen by mail-in voting. Mail-in voting and RCV counting should be abolished.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Jeez, is his head too big for his body or is his body too small for his head?


15 posted on 02/02/2026 5:42:20 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: LouAvul

“At some point should not the Lamestream Media be declared a public utility and be required to be objective.”

That’s the point - as long as the media is complicit, the hoaxes are SUCCESSFUL, regardless of whether they get debunked...since very few ever find out they’ve been debunked.


16 posted on 02/02/2026 5:56:03 AM PST by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Bkmk


17 posted on 02/02/2026 5:56:29 AM PST by sauropod
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To: Eleutheria5

It’s time for our side to start filing one lawsuit after another the way the far left communists do. Give the azhos in the judiciary something to do rather than steal every penny Americans have.


18 posted on 02/02/2026 6:00:05 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cheech Frey and his sidekick, Timmy Chong have turned Minniesomalia into a Cheech & Chong movie.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“WHO YOU CALLING “BOY,” RACIST!”

Yes, the old Bobblehead of fake hate crimes himself, “Rev.” Al.


19 posted on 02/02/2026 6:02:02 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Eleutheria5

Because it always is.


20 posted on 02/02/2026 6:06:29 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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