Media-Hyped Plano Case Turns Out to Be Hate Hoax

Hate Hoaxes are effective at driving the liberal narrative because the media covers them breathlessly when they first break but ignores later revelations that they are fake. A story from 2021 is a case in point.

Via the Washington Free Beacon:

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.

The media was euphoric:

Major media outlets, including NBC, CBS, CNN, Business Insider, People magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Dallas Morning News, pounced on the story as Humphrey, his mother Summer Smith, and their attorney Kim Cole, embarked on a media tour where they called Vann “evil.” The trio appeared on Good Morning America, where ABC host Linsey Davis promoted a GoFundMe account that raised nearly $120,000 to help pay for Humphrey’s “therapy and private schooling.”

Thuggish activist groups capitalized:

The Next Generation Action Network, a Black Lives Matter-tied group whose leader alleged Humphrey was “tortured for days” by his white assailants, organized public marches that drew hundreds of protesters.

Thankfully they refrained from burning down Plano.

Vann told the Free Beacon that none of the media outlets that covered the story in 2021 reached out to hear his side of events, even as their coverage incited nationwide outrage that led to violent protests outside his home.

Again we see that the liberal establishment is in the business of activism, not information. That is, they are thugs too, as surely as BLM types. Don Lemon’s raid on a church during service represents the inevitable next step.

And then, a little under five years later, a racially diverse Texas jury—including four black members—ruled the whole thing was a hoax.

As usual with Black Lives Matter, the ideological malice was laced with sheer greed:

[T]he 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.

Sadly, this will not cause liberals to regard hate hoaxes with skepticism. Snug inside their bubble of mainstream media misinformation, they will never know it was all a scam.

On a tip from RoCar.

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