From Fox News: A Texas jury has delivered a decisive verdict in a case that once ignited national outrage and dominated headlines.
Five years after a classmate accused Asher Vann of racially motivated bullying at a sleepover, jurors awarded Vann — now a college freshman — $3.2 million in damages, finding that false claims and a viral narrative caused severe emotional distress and invaded his privacy.
“I don’t feel so scared and so little as I did back then. I feel like I’m getting heard,” Vann said Tuesday on “The Will Cain Show.”
The case stemmed from a 2021 incident in which 13-year-old SeMarion Humphrey alleged that Vann and several other boys shot him with a BB gun and forced him to drink urine during a sleepover — accusations that were quickly framed as race-based bullying and drew national media attention, protests and involvement from activists.
According to a report earlier this month: In February 2021, the group of 8th grade boys decided to go outside and “hunt frogs” with BB guns and airsoft rifles. After they couldn’t find any frogs, they decided to test their equipment by shooting each other. They were all wearing bulky clothing and paintball masks, and no one was hurt.
After walking back to the house, they all agreed that the first one who fell asleep would get pranked. Vann said Humphrey “got pranked, and it was nasty, but it was not like this big racial torture that it was played out to be.”
Vann had previously explained that he and Humphrey were close friends, and there were no hard feelings at all, until a couple weeks later when Humphrey’s mom heard about the boys’ antics and blew it up into a massive “hate crime” allegation that spiraled completely out of control.
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