Free Beacon writer and 2023 MRC Bulldog Award winner Andrew Kerr unleashed a massive investigation on Monday morning, telling readers that a 2021 hate crime trumpeted by a who’s who of the liberal media — where a black teen in Plano, Texas named SeMarion Humphrey was pelted with BB gun bullets and forced to drink urine at a sleepover by white kids — was fake.
Not only did Kerr report the story was deemed fake, a Texas jury found it so in a court of law on January 22 and ordered the boy’s mother Summer Smith and attorney Kim Cole “to pay $3.2 million in damages to” the boy Humphrey claimed to have been the ringleader.
Kerr laid out the sordid details:
It was a story that received blanket media coverage in March 2021. It alleged that white middle schoolers in Plano, Texas, viciously “tortured” SeMarion Humphrey, their black classmate, forcing him to drink their urine at a sleepover as they shot him with BB guns. A Black Lives Matter activist group charged the local public school district with doing “nothing” to stop “this racially motivated hate crime” as violent protests broke out outside the home of Asher Vann, the white child alleged to have organized the brutal attack.
Tailor-made for the race-hustling liberal media, Kerr explained the story was picked up by “NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Dallas Morning News,” and even an interview on ABC News Live with Prime host Linsey Davis.
In said ABC interview, Kerr said Davis even “promoted a GoFundMe account that raised nearly $120,000 to help pay for Humphrey’s ‘therapy and private schooling.’”
Unsurprisingly, none of these outlets have offered new stories apologizing for their role in fomenting this literal and online mob against an innocent boy and his family.
The fallout extended to “racial activist groups add[ing] fuel to the fire” and one group “alleg[ing] Humphrey was ‘tortured for days’ by his white assailants[.]”
In yet another unsurprising revelation, Kerr said “[c]ourt records show that Smith put less than $1,000 of the nearly $120,000 GoFundMe windfall toward her son’s schooling” and instead on things like “designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent.”
Kerr also spoke with Vann, which was something “none of the media outlets that covered the story in 2021” did “to hear his side of events, even as their coverage incited nationwide outrage that led to violent protests outside his home.”
Vann said he received “death threats from thousands of people” and “full-grown adults…rush[ed] my house and caus[ed] harm to it.”
To read Kerr’s full takedown, click here (or in the link at the top of the page).
