A Texas court “awarded a white college student $3.2 million in attorney’s fees and damages after he endured years” of false “allegations that he bullied his black friend and forced him to drink urine,” reports The College Fix.
The verdict was in a lawsuit brought by Asher Vann against Summer Smith, the mother of the black friend, SeMarion Humphrey. Damages were also awarded against Kim Cole, Smith’s attorney, who was also held liable.
As The College Fix notes,
The ruling ends a five-year long saga that began when Humphrey accused Vann and his friends of shooting him with a BB gun and forcing him to drink urine. Black Lives Matter and NAACP groups pounced on the story and the mainstream media quickly helped spread the allegations.
However, the controversy began to fall apart as school officials and law enforcement experts looked into the situation.
“Plano Police Department officer Patricia McClure testified during a July 2025 deposition that she didn’t believe there was probable cause to bring the charges, which she only brought out of an abundance of caution amid the media firestorm,” the Free Beacon reported. The school’s black assistant principal “confirmed” this “finding.”
First, the white students did not gang up on Humphrey and start shooting him with BB pellets. Rather, they were all dressed up during a winter storm to hunt frogs but could not find any. Humphrey, the black student, asked to be shot by his friends. “Then we all switched and took turns shooting each other,” Vann told the Free Beacon. “Everyone got shot and everyone shot someone.”
SeMarion’s mom said she plans to appeal. She said she still believes Vann is “evil.” Smith reportedly spent more than $100,000 raised from a GoFundMe on herself, including “on luxuries, including a designer dog…liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent.”
“Kim Cole, the attorney who helped Smith on her national media tour, did not provide further comment,” The College Fix says.
The jury that found Cole and Smith liable had four black members.
