Posted on 02/06/2026 10:44:24 AM PST by DFG
A white youth who was falsely accused of committing a hate crime against his black classmate has been awarded $3.2 million after a Texas jury determined the incident was a hoax fabricated by the classmate’s money-grubbing mother and her race-hustling attorney.
The scam unfolded in 2021, when Summer Smith — the mother of then-middle school student SeMarion Humphrey — and her lawyer, Kim T. Cole, accused Humphrey’s white classmate, Asher Vann, and his friends of shooting Humphrey with BB guns and forcing him to drink urine during a sleepover at Vann’s house in Plano, Texas, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
The accusations gained national attention after a Black Lives Matter group joined the fray, falsely characterizing the incident as a “racially motivated hate crime.”
“Major media outlets, including NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Dallas Morning News, pounced on the story as Humphrey, his mother Summer Smith, and their attorney Kim Cole, embarked on a media tour where they called Vann ‘evil,'” the Free Beacon reported.
“The trio appeared on ‘Good Morning America,’ where ABC host Linsey Davis promoted a GoFundMe account that raised nearly $120,000 to help pay for Humphrey’s ‘therapy and private schooling.'”
As a result of the sham allegations, Vann — an eighth-grader when the incident erupted — said he received countless death threats, and multiple violent protests erupted outside his home, the outlet reported.
“I was getting death threats from thousands of people on social media,” Vann told the Free Beacon. “People leaked my address and my name. During one of the protests, they walked all the way to my house and threw bricks through my house.”
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It’s about time they started going after the lawyers.
““Major media outlets, including NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Dallas Morning News, pounced on the story”
Will any of thee entities apologize? Time for a class action suit.
$3.2MM is not enough. They should go after that law license.
So ... they owe reparations?
This is inappropriate.
Teh amount is WAAAAY too low.
LOL. Good luck to “white youth” getting $3.2 million out of “black mom.”
Good. Let their gofund me fund go to him.
I was hoping to see that the lawyer hit with that big settlement was Ben Crump.
Excellent- unfortunately- gofundme will now raise more money for mother who committed the hater crime
Speaking of hoaxes, where are the lawsuits against Russia collusion hoaxers?
The punishment for a false accusation must be what the innocent party would have gotten, plus punitive damages.
Comer is still working on it. More "investigations" to follow.
If one plays with fake better know the price that comes with it when you suck at it.
Media turns lights out not answering the phone.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Asher or his parents. They should have had more sense than to invite as SeMarion for a sleep over. At least he didn’t invite a Karmelo.
“Major media outlets, including NBC, CBS, CNN,”
Will these be included in a future suit ala Nick Sandman?
Yeah, could have been worse, huh.
I hope the lawyer was disbarred.
And, every alphabet network that reported this false story slandering and defaming that young man should be sued - just as pro-life, young Nick Sandman did:
“Nick Sandmann, a Catholic high school student, sued major media networks for false reporting.
Major news outlets, including CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC Universal, published reports that falsely portrayed Sandmann and the students as aggressive and racist. In response, Sandmann and his family filed an $800 million lawsuit for defamation. CNN later settled the lawsuit, acknowledging the harm caused by its reckless and false reporting...NBC, and The Washington Post settled with Sandmann for undisclosed amounts, avoiding lengthy trials.”
White people need our version of the Anti Defamation League—an army of junkyard dog attorneys waiting to sue any media outlet that slanders any one of us.
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