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Another race hoax bites the dust.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:34 am
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:34 am
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Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:36 am to L.A.
They'll be lucky to received $1 let alone 3.2M
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:38 am to L.A.
Here's the great thing: There were 4 black members on the jury that decided the while thing was a hoax. Very encouraging.
townhall
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And then, a little under five years later, a racially diverse Texas jury—including four black members—ruled the whole thing was a hoax.
On Jan. 22, Texas district court judge Benjamin Smith ordered Smith and Cole to pay $3.2 million in damages to Vann, now an adult attending his first year of college, for intentionally smearing him and tarnishing his future earning potential during their media tour in 2021. The ruling followed a civil trial in October 2025, where the jury determined that Cole and Smith 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.
Court records show that Smith put less than $1,000 of the nearly $120,000 GoFundMe windfall toward her son’s schooling. 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.
townhall
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:42 am to L.A.
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On Jan. 22, Texas district court judge Benjamin Smith ordered Smith and Cole to pay $3.2 million in damages to Vann
Not good enough. An example needs to be made of them.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:42 am to L.A.
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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)
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:51 am to L.A.
Kim Cole is a Ben Crump-style race baiting POS and needs to be made an example of with these types of lawsuits.
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 10:52 am
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:57 am to VADawg
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Not good enough. An example needs to be made of them.
There really should be more because I doubt that one penny of the monetary judgment will come out of the perps’ pockets.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:57 am to L.A.
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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.
Invested her money.
In liquor and vapes. LoL
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:01 am to blueboxer1119
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Invested her money.
In liquor and vapes. LoL
Where to invest if reparations were ever given to them.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:05 am to L.A.
The demand for racism is greater than the supply
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:14 am to L.A.
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Several major outlets including NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People, Daily Mail, Dallas Morning News and Good Morning America covered the story,
NONE of those outlets reached out to Asher Vann, the white kid alleged to have organized this heinous attack.
Sounds like they need to expand their list of defendants.
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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.
Is it customary for the wording of these types of suits to include the attorney as a potential payor, or is this a situation where the attorney held a few too many interviews knowing the actual facts of the case did not substantiate the claims
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