his mom shari owns a commercial building in town. ger, a realtor says she was trying to help spencer sell the building to calm tensions within the town over her son s beliefs. but according to a lawsuit filed by an anti-hate group, spencer published a blog post accusing ger, of threatening her with protests until she complied and sold her building. we called spencer who said she didn t want to talk to us. people say who do you believe? i say, i don t know. reporter: but the police chief says no complaint was filed by spencer and no charges were brought by any other agency. but after the blog post, the lawsuit says andrew engelland, the founder of one of the most popular neonazi web sites the daily stormer picked up the torch and unleashed what he called his troll army on them. publishing their contact information on his site. the southern poverty law center is suing andrew on ger, s beautifully accusing him of
african-american president of american university. we ended up doing a story on her and learned about this website and andrew back then. she was just trolled because she had done well and they were concerned about her race. not about her accomplishments. is there any sense that this political climate, sara, we re living in right now, is it egging on these kinds of hate mongers on social media or just in general? it s interesting you ask that. we asked that very question to tanya herself and her family. she said look, i don t want to look at this as politics. when you look at the overall picture and talk to the southern poverty law center, for example, or the anti-defamation league or the fbi, statistics are showing the numbers of hate incidents are up across the country. california for example, where i am right now, just had a report out this past week saying that the hate citizens are up about 11% this year. so yes, indeed, there are a lot of people looking at this and