A black mother who said her son was forced to drink urine by a racist bully was ordered to pay millions in damages for intentionally smearing his name.
SeMarion Humphrey, an eighth grader at Haggard Middle School at the time, was allegedly forced to drink urine and was racially abused during a sleepover with a group of classmates in February 2021, triggering a police investigation.
Humphrey’s mother, Summer Smith, claimed her son was taunted and called the N-word, in addition to a number of homophobic slurs, and that some of the boys shot him with a BB gun during the sleepover in Plano, Texas.
After a clip from the sleepover went viral, Smith, and her attorney Kim Cole, raised nearly $120,000 on GoFundMe to help pay for his ‘therapy and private schooling.’
Humphrey’s mom targeted Asher Vann – a white student who was hosting the sleepover – and ran his name through the mud in a bid to get ‘justice’ for her son.
Smith posted on her public social media for Vann to be expelled from school, causing him to receive death threats and fear for his life.
Now five years later, a diverse Texas jury ruled that Smith and Cole must pay $3.2 million in damages to Vann for the smear campaign they triggered.
Vann, now 18, was never charged for the alleged racial bullying – and when the claims were brought up in court, police and teachers testified that the kids were simply playing stupid pranks on one another.
Vann’s lawsuit came to civil trial in October 2025, where the jury was ruled that Smith and Cole exploited the incident to rake in thousands of dollars in donations.
According to records obtained by the Free Beacon, Smith put a mere $1,000 of the staggering GoFundMe pot toward her son’s assets – pocketing the rest for herself.
The account statements reveal the remaining funds were spent on luxuries, including a designer dog, dining and travel, cell phones and car payments.
‘I was getting death threats from thousands of people on social media,’ Vann told Free Beacon, who is now a freshman in college.
‘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.’
Vann and his family sued Smith and Cole for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress, which the jury ruled in Vann’s favor.
‘It was scary. These were adults, and I was in middle school at the time. Full-grown adults were rushing my house and causing harm to it,’ Vann told the outlet.
‘What if I was home and they saw me? They could have ripped me from my home and beaten me. It was very scary.’
Criminal charges were initially launched against the boys because of the BB gun claims, but Plano Police Department Officer Patricia McClure testified that there wasn’t enough probable cause for the charges, the outlet reported.
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