tonight the violent arrest of a south carolina high school student is now the focus of an fbi investigation and federal civil rights investigation as well. several students videotaped the incident as it went down inside an algebra classroom. if you haven t seen the images, they are hard to watch. a school resource officer slamming a 16-year-old to the ground taking her from the desk after she allegedly refused to le leave the classroom. the officer was called to the classroom after the student allegedly disrupted class taking out her cell phone. ben fields has been suspended without leave pending a investigation by the sheriffs department and the student is facing a charge of disturbing schools. this happened yesterday. within hours the videos went viral. gary tuchman joins me with the latest. you re in south carolina. what you learned? reporter: anderson, behind me in this school a regularly scheduled board of education meeting that s been anything but
every room. what might be the other way out? a window. this time, casey, you check the door, and the door is hot. out the window. good job. [ applause ] she can do my taxes. i m impressed. so does it work? i can walk into the school and finish a program. if i you walk out and change my shirt the kids don t have a clue who i am. if i walk back in that school a year later, they are calling casey by name. i believe it. you say your program has actually been credited with saving 15 lives? 15 lives. how you have found out that? a lot of times when firefighters at the end of a fire will do a post fire interview with a family and they will ask them who how did you know what to do and the kids have said casey taught me. how many kids you have taught? casey taught more than had 4 million since we started. how old is she? this casey is 4 years
sky. journey won top reader award. sky is a wonder woman. she can do anything and she tries. because they give them that courage. reporter: for melissa, innovation and creativity is what with her son needed. i m thrilled we were able to choose the type of school a tailored to my child. reporter: josh, the founder and ceo of bricolage said it is from affluent and disadvantaged families, a 5 orb 50. we believe bringing kids together from diverse backgrounds is a great way to increase empathy, equity and creativity. when hurricane katrina hit in august of 2005, the public schools of new orleans were considered among the worst in the country. the storm damaged and destroyed most of the schools including ones like this, abandoned for ten years. the state of louisiana seized
part of a last hour often very emotional saying that she still loves her son, that schizophrenia chose hip. he did not choose it. and saying that she didn t realize that in the months leading up to the shooting that his loudest cry for help was his silence. it was difficult for the holmes to get much out of their son of issues he was having in school a break-up with a girlfriend. they certainly did not realize that anything like this was going on and she said through tears she would have been on all fours to get from california here to denver had they any idea that he was having psychotic or homicide thoughts. they re going through the childhood as an effort to humanize him and to appeal to one of the things that the jury can look at as they consider whether to give james holmes the death penalty, that is mercy, the jury could begin deliberating next phase of the sentencing hearing as soon as tomorrow. guys? scott cohen, thank you. breaking news now in the war
force, the police going there to keep order. look at some of the social indicators in those communities, drug abuse is rampant, baltimore as a city is considered to be the number one heroin using city in america according to the federal government. you look at schools in winchester the neighborhood where freddie gray grew up half almost half of high school students miss more than 20s days of school a year. 20% of the middle school students do. the census track that encompasses winchester has the highest number of maryland state prison inmates in the state. so you look at that and you sort of have this kind of dichotomy that exists. baltimore, which in many ways is a beautiful city within that you have this kind of rolling kind of all these social problems. why do so many people in baltimore distrust police? we ve pointed out you pointed out in your article a black police commissioner half of the