Another race hoax bites the dust...perpetrators of this one to pay $3.2 million in damages

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You may remember this race hoax. The mainstream media covered it breathlessly at the time.

Summer Smith, the mother of a black middle schooler in Texas, said her child was abused by a group of white kids, who allegedly tricked him into going to a sleepover where they pelted him with BB guns while they forced him to drink their own urine.

Smith's attorney, Kim Cole, said the black child was "tortured," BLM-linked groups called it a "racially-motivated hate crime," and Smith called the alleged white assailants "evil" on televised press conferences.

Several major outlets including NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People, Daily Mail, Dallas Morning News and Good Morning America covered the story, helping Smith raise $120k in a GoFundMe that she said would be used to pay for her son to attend private school (spoiler: she spent less than 1% of the funds on private schooling)

NONE of those outlets reached out to Asher Vann, the white kid alleged to have organized this heinous attack.

This had very real consequences for Vann and his family. Vann told me he received thousands of death threats, and said protesters threw bricks at his house one night as the media drummed up outrage for clicks.

And last month, a racially diverse Texas jury ruled the whole thing was a hoax.

They ordered Smith and her attorney, Kim Cole, to pay Vann $3.2 million in damages for intentionally smearing him and tarnishing his future earning potential during their media tour in 2021.

Vann and his family aren't expecting Smith to pay up anytime soon. That's because she spent almost all the $120k of her GoFundMe bounty on luxuries for herself, including a designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent. She spent less than $1,000 of the funds on private schooling for her son.

Smith maintains she told the truth about what happened to her son in 2021 and told me she plans to file an appeal.

Smith's attorney, Cole, later went on to briefly represent Karmelo Anthony, the black student charged with first degree murder last year for fatally stabbing a white student at a high school track meet. Similar deal there -- Anthony's family raised over $500k in a GoFundMe and soon afterwards found themselves holed up in a $900k house with a brand-new car in the driveway. Cole left that case soon afterwards.