Black mom, attorney ordered to pay $3.2 million to white student whose life they

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Black mom, attorney ordered to pay $3.2 million to white student whose life they tried to ruin with fake hate allegations

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/black-mom-attorney-ordered-to-pay-3-2-million-to-white-student-whose-life-they-tried-to-ruin-with-fake-hate-allegations/ar-AA1VPwgO

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.
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"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.'"
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"It was scary," Vann said. "These were adults, and I was in middle school at the time. Full-grown adults were rushing my house and causing harm to it. What if I was home and they saw me? They could have ripped me from my home and beaten me. It was very scary."

In October 2025, a jury concluded Smith and Cole "cooked up the scheme to raise their public profiles during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement and to rake in money through GoFundMe," the Free Beacon reported.

"Court records show that Smith put less than $1,000 of the nearly $120,000 GoFundMe windfall toward her son’s schooling," the Free Beacon reported.

"Account statements reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show the remaining funds were spent on luxuries, including a designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent."

A judge issued the $3.2 million order for damages on Jan. 22, according to the news outlet.

For reference, the racially diverse jury had four black members.