fakehatecrimes.org

fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes

The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are recommended.


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538. A jury decided it was a hoax, and awarded the fake victims to pay millions of dollars in damages to ... 2021-03-01 Plano TX

title
Story About Black Student Terrorized by White Classmates in Texas is a Hoax

name
Legal Insurrection

authors
Mike LaChance

url
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/02/story-about-black-student-terrorized-by-white-classmates-in-texas-is-a-hoax/

summary
The allegation 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 received blanket media coverage in March 2021. 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. Nearly five years later, a jury awarded substantial damages to the falsely accused.

date read
2026-02-22

date published
2026-02-04