trail. his mission to root out evil-doers on the internet. caught him the troll-hunter. >> what satisfaction do you get out of doing this? >> for once you do something that i hate the expression but maybe it makes a difference. >> "america tonight's" sheila macvicar with sweden's answer to internet trolls. and breaking bad. in the city of brotherly love bringing kids face to face with

the hard truth of violence. >> how many of you know people who have had ebola? how many of you know somebody who's been shot? >> "america tonight" ," are," bracing for more bloodshed and more backlash. as they try to prevent more death. look to west philadelphia where residents stood up to demand an end to gun violence outrage after a 51-year-old man was gunned down in a robbery. the straw that broke the camel's back for these neighbors, the two alleged trigger men were just 15 years old. sometimes it takes anger and a shocking

confrontation to change attitudes. as "america tonight's" sarah hoye found, that means facing up to the hard truth of violent crime. >> then he will see a young man who's pointing a 40 caliber gun towards his back. that young man will stand over la mont and at point blank range he will shoot la mont ten times more. >> the final moments of la mont's life, retold in disturbing detail by scott charles. la mont was gunned down at the intersection of 26th and cambrian the shooter was just 19 years old. >> right here right there right here. i'm going to have you roll over onto your stomach, okay. >> his audience not medical

students but a group of at-risk teens. they have come to the hospital as part of the craid el cradle to grave program scott created in hopes of reducing gun violence in what is supposed to be the city of brotherly love. >> la mont is going to have a bullet wound root here, right here, another bullet wound right here he's going to have a bullet wound right here and i'm sorry my man he had one here. >> the sheer number of bullet wounds shocking enough to crack the students' tough exteriors. young people in philadelphia especially young men are at injury. in fact for young black men gun violence is the leading cause of death. officials argue it should be taken as seriously as a contagious disease. >> how many of you know somebody who has had ebola?

how many of you know somebody who's been shot? right. >> reporter: according to philadelphia police more than 1,000 people were shot across the city last year. >> we can count each night that we are going so see a gun victim come through these doors. this is a public health crisis and we have a responsibility to focus on it. >> dr. amy goldberg the hospital's chief trauma surge helped the crate l to grave program. >> it's a 15th name but in reality what it is, it is just a rib-spreader. and we spread open the ribs so that we could gain access to his heart, and his lung . >> together, dr. goldberg and scott charles created a program to attack the epidemic ever gun violence with hard facts. >> what is your motivation?

why do you do this? >> we have found that the kids and the students what they see on tv what they hear ton radio what they might see on a video game is what they think happens if they were to sustain some kind of gunshot wound. and we felt that we needed to give them the real education of what can occur after you get shot. so we actually used an instrument like this which looks underneath the breast bone and we bang on it and it splits your breast bone in half. we started compressing again continued to compress his heart and in spite of everything we did that day, that night nothing worked. and la mont dried here on the trauma stretcher. >> dr. goldberg says her trauma unit sees about 400 gunshot patients a year. many are young men of color. >> night after night, day after day, whether it's a monday or friday, these folks are getting

shot in our city. and i'm not hearing the public outrage. >> over the past decade more than 10,000 students have walked through halls of the level 1 trauma unit to take part in the program. students like 18-year-old joey lopez. like most high school seniors, joey can't wait for prom and he's looking forward to getting his diploma. but unlike your average high school senior the odds have been stacked against joey since birth. joey was raised in a rough section of north philly and lived not far from the intersection where la mont adams was gunned down. >> describe to me what it was like growing up in philadelphia. >> came from a bad neighborhood. we really didn't have much because my mom issues, my dad issues, my dad got locked up and taken away, i was five or six.

i went from one hood to another hood to another hood, i was doing drugs some -- some of the people were doing drugs some people not. some in the hood not here, some dead, some in jail. >> students like joey could fall through cracks. when joey began to stumble, camelot was there to catch him. >> we clap it up for, i need you guys to sit up, i need you guys ounderstand that education in the classroom is sacred. i want to take this time out to say that one, i am proud of all of you. why? because giving up was not an option. >> the accelerated program gives at-risk students who fall faltered in the classroom an opportunity to

have a second chance. >> the true example is when i pull up for work and the student's waiting, and the student's waiting because they don't have heat at home. the student's waiting because this is their first meal that they're going to receive. the student that was bright eyed and bushy tailed and then had a frown. once i pulled the student aside, well ma'am, my cousin got shot last night. >> sadika lucas whose own cousin was killed. takes students through craid many cradle tograve program each year. greek philosopher aristotle once wrote that poverty is the parent of crime. in philadelphia, a city plagued by poverty and gun violence, all

you have to do is look at the statistics. nearly 20% of philadelphiaians live near the poverty line with poverty hovering near 60%. households headed by a single parent while 60% of philadelphia high school students graduates in four years. >> what they're saying is listen you represent everything i've ever worked for all my hopes and my plans and my dreams for tomorrow are with you and if you don't come home i'll die. and they mean that, trust me. you won't go out on the streets at night. you won't go towards conflict. you avoid conflicts conflict. >> but there are still tens of thousands of students who won't get the support like joey does. >> caring like 15, you know why they are caring?

the dope gangs, selling drugs or moving drugs they feel as if they need that. probably even jealousy, somebody wants to knock me off, i need that to protect myself. >> philadelphia still has a long way to go in its fight against gun violence. person carrying a gun is four times more likely to get shot. and until the city gets a handle on the help demic the epidemic, the cradle to grave program will continue. and the cost of doing nothing is too high. >> probably a month or two in i turned to dr. goldberg and said i don't know that i can continue doing this. she said why? i said i find myself crying and feeling frustrated. i'll never forget what she set it's okay to cry, you can be put

off, fruts frustrated but you got to do something about it. >> "america tonight's" sarah hoye. those kids were transfixed. but with all those gone through the program already is there an indication that it works? >> reporter: yes, it does but unfortunately joie about 15 to 20% of these students have actually returned to timple many university templeuniversity hospital as patients. and there are a few who have died as a result of those injuries. >> that's a shame. numbers don't tell the whole story on this but naturally we are seeing some downward trends. in fact in philadelphia they have had a couple of years where they've had downward trends in shooting death. is that some indication, reason for hope out of that? >> although the gun violence or

gun murders as you will have come down, relatively stayed the same over a few years, what we are seeing though is an increase in the nonfatal sphiestles meaning survivals, are living. we've gotten better in taking care of those who are hit. >> and we have seen in your reporting over the last couple of days and some of the other reporting from baltimore from new york, there are situations where we are seeing upticks. it must be very hard as these folks have said to just keep going, to keep working with these young people against what looked like insurmountable odds. >> absolutely joie. that's what i asked people who worked with this population, where do you keep doing it when it seems like you aren't making a dent? they are, for each person they steer down a different path that's a success to them and they will not stop until that

gun death violence is zero. >> sarah, what was your impression as you watched these young people's faces? they are transfixed. you would have to be. this is very dramatic. >> this is in your face, joie. i mean how many the times do you get to go through a trauma hospital and you are actually in an operating room where people are wheeled in? so what they do is they really captivate these students. program. it is an educate you straight program. a disconnect between what people actually think happens. scott charles from our piece people have this misnomer, all of a sudden you get showed you jump back up and you are back on the block. that's not what happens. this is long term hurt long term pain, thousands into the millions of health care costs. this doesn't stop with you getting shot in the streets.

they are making a difference with people. >> "america tonight's" sarah hoye. next, the scorned strike back. angry exes, can revenge porn be stopped? next, righting the wrongs of the internet, sheila macvicar with the man they call the troll hunter. and when the state takes over, wards of the state and why those protected people can end up trapped with almost no rights. at aljazeera.com/americatonight. >> we were drugged water boarded, dogs they throw at you the whole book. >> the youngest person ever held at guantanamo bay >> a guy would go for a few days you'd hear screaming he would come back a destroyed person you can only imagine what happened to him...

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exposed. what's worse go-betweens who make a business of exposing yours. "america tonight's" adam may found an explosion of revenge porn. >> it started with a romantic request. >> he had asked, you know i'd love to take some pictures of you, you're so beautiful. >> but months later, ann maria, an english teacher, became the victim of revenge porn. her photos posted on. for the world to see. >> the line was, be english professor, are nude photos. >> adam hunts town people who solicit and publish nonconsensual porn og

reaf porn og pornography. >> worst that that are people who operate these websites to profit off of those feelings and the pain of their relationships. >> you mean extortion? >> yes, almost all have extortion component of it. >> advised legislatures around the country how to write laws make revenge porn illegal. >> the hesitation that many of us who work with the victims have is that there's probably always going to be another site waiting in the wings. so yes you can take this one down today, maybe scare this one tomorrow, but until we have really strong federal penalties in place, we are probably not going to see the end of revenge porn sites. >> a handful of these sites are still online, operating out of foreign countries but the feds can't do much about it because there's no federal legislation. >> once the pictures are out there they're out there. >> so unless a victim has enough

money to pay a lawyer hundreds of dollars an hour to go after these guys not many people are going to be willing to take that case. >> reporter: that's exactly what happened to chia rani, she couldn't afford a lawyer and maryland police never pursued criminal charges. fast forward to the scorned >> fast forward to the scorned seeking revenge oversize overseas. the u.k. has an antiporn law and chambers is the first seeking revenge under it. he's the troll hunter. sheila macvicar with sweden's answer to evil doers. california water woes and

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>> weeknights on al jazeera america primetime. >> in the digital world they're known as trolls. they hide behind online anonymity. have driven some targets to suicide. it can be very tough to stop those abusers. the supreme court this week overturned the conviction of a plan who had used facebook to threaten his estranged wife.

that could make it even harder to prosecute these trolls. but in sweden, given a taste of their own medicine, sheila macvicar gives us a story of a troll hunter. >> robert ashberg, a television personality and also a troll hunter. >> for the last years the tv journalist has made it his mission to unmask the unknowing perpetrators. the troll hunter.

>> you know sweden strikes us as being such a be tolerant a tolerant civilized place. why do you need to hunt trolls here? >> because there are as many trolls here as any other country. >> and access to the internet -- >> 99% or something. >> with so many swedes connected to the internet, trolls take online, while most swedes consider themselves moderates or even liberals there is a far-right political party, the sweden democrats, its race deep in the neonazi movement. >> a majority is a very, very loud group of right wing extremists and they are everywhere. >> racist international trolls are one of the favorite targets of the troll hunter.

>> how do you go about finding them? >> we have youngsters who are very, very good with computers. the method is cross reference. you look at different forums. you look at their nicknames. it's like laying a puzzle. >> his researchers scour the web for clues, embedding comments until they can link a screen name to a real person. >> what's in your head when you get into the car to go out to one of these to confront one of these guys? what are you thinking about? >> i like it . some in the team are very nervous. i've taken the pulse of some of the segment producers minutes before we confront and it's 120 or something.

>> once a target has been identified, the trap springs shut. >> do people argue with you? >> yes, some do. some run, some argue. >> for legal reasons, ashberg blurs the identity of some online strolls. chose to flee when confronted. it is a common reaction among trolls. >> i had one guy who he just

fled when i came. he had been writing 10,000 very, very racist comments on one of the forums. and this guy in advance had said that if ashberg comes to me, i'll put land mines in my garden. this is our usual phenomenon. they are extremely tough but then when you confront them you know they're like small kids with their fingers in the cookie jar. >> ashberg isn't the only one in sweeten who is using aggressive tactics to tackle online hate. in 2013 a group of online activists called research groupen linked right wing group

to online comments, they gave light to a tabloid that gail multiple rise to resignations and when an anonymous group of internet is trolls, forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars in restitution. seeking damages is an approach that ashberg has incorporated into his show. >> reporter: he calls it a spall but effective way to inflict real pain on those used

to pay no price for their hateful words. >> not very big money but it has a certain effect on people. we say hey, you have to pay me this, because you've hurt me in this or that way and i could take you to court if you don't. most people do pay. >> but more than fines or courts, lawmakers or police, ashberg says, it's time for people to act to stop this. what satisfaction do you get out of doing this? >> i've done all kinds of tv. everything from current affairs stuff, reported from other countries. reality shows like survivor. but this for once you do something that i hate the expression. but maybe make a difference. >> reporter: sheila macvicar, al jazeera, sweden. >> and that's "america tonight." tell us what you think at aljazeera.com/americatonight. talk to us on twitter or facebook and come back. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow.

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