Piker's complaint says he has never advocated lynching anyone
Hasan PikerPlaintiff, in the complaint his lawyers filed in federal court
In his defamation complaint against Scott Jennings, Hasan Piker says he has never advocated the lynching of Black Americans or anyone else and has never called for a return to lynchings.
Responding to
Hasan Piker says the United States should resume lynchings against Black people.
“Mr. Piker has never advocated the lynching of Black Americans, or anyone else. He has never called for a return to lynchings.”
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Other statements by Hasan Piker in this case
- Piker calls Jennings's post a clear-cut case of defamationEarlier: Condemned
Where this statement fits
Scott Jennings says Hasan Piker called for Black voters to be lynched; Piker sues for defamation, citing an edited clip
On August 11, 2026, Scott Jennings played a compilation of Hasan Piker clips on his radio show and said Piker was calling for Black voters to be lynched. A Snopes review found the compilation joined parts of three streams out of context and order. On October 27, Piker sued Jennings for defamation in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking $72.5 million. Piker says he has never advocated lynching anyone. We could not locate a public response from Jennings to the suit as of November 1.
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Complaint Hasan Piker filed against Scott Jennings in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on October 27, 2026, alleging defamation per se, defamation by implication and false light over Jennings's August 11, 2026 broadcast and social media post. It states Piker's allegations; it does not establish the facts. Filed copy from the federal court docket.
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NBC News report on Piker's complaint, published October 28, 2026. It summarizes the complaint, quotes Piker's lawyer Daniel Watkins, and says Jennings did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Before the quotation
The complaint opens by quoting Jennings's August 11 statements that Piker was "out there calling for Black voters to be lynched" and had a "plan of returning our country to lynchings," and says all of the accusations are false.
After the quotation
It continues that he has never proposed anything resembling the plan Jennings attributed to him, and that Jennings added a made-up quotation to a manipulated video of Piker.
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Why this label?
The reference point is Jennings's claim that Piker called for Black voters to be lynched. Piker's complaint denies that he has ever advocated lynching or called for its return.
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