field booked but treated like any other citizen and should stand before a bond court judge. have we gotten a response from the sheriff to that? reporter: good afternoon. w well, the sheriff is returning from that conference in chicago and is expected back here in columbia in the early afternoon. the sheriff has also said he will be looking at this. he is promising a full investigation. he asked the fbi to look into this case. as you mentioned, department of justice just confirmed they are opening a civil rights investigation into all this. so we were hearing from that lieutenant from the sheriff s department giving a brief synopsis of what led up to this. obviously the video is just a snapshot of that intense moment that escalated. what do we know about this deputy s background? he s listed as one of several defendants in two separate federal lawsuits. reporter: that s right. one of those lawsuits was dismissed, actually. he won the lawsuit along with several other defendants. th