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working hard to identify the rest of the mob. nationwide, a crime happens on average every three seconds, according to census data. so more than 1200 crimes may have been committed in the u.s. while you were watching this program. we've shown you a handful of brave crime stoppers who were assisted by a silent witness, the camera as crime fighter. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." everyday situations spiral out of control. >> it was just devastating, you know? it was just brutal. >> things escalate quickly from calm to chaos. and pushing the limits can sometimes spell disaster. >> oh, my god! >> i saw him lifeless.
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i was really scared. >> when the boundaries are crossed between right and wrong, clever and foolish, humble and arrogant. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> things can go too far. fists fly on a california freeway when rush hour frustration turns violent. >> it's one thing to have a one-on-one fight, but to kick a guy on the ground when he's down? that's just brutal. that's inhumane. >> june 12th, 2012. los angeles, california. it's late in the afternoon when 24-year-old emile age is driving to school on the i-5 freeway. >> it was rush hour. people are so frustrated getting
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off work ready to get home. >> los angeles is infamous for its congested roadways. in fact, it's among the top three worst cities in the united states for traffic, according to a 2012 forbes magazine study. california highway patrol officer chris baldinado knows these maddening conditions often lead to road rage. >> road rage is more often than you think. from giving the finger to verbal arguments to people physically fighting. just a matter of how far it escalates. >> there's always road rage in los angeles. >> spotting some commotion ahead, emile begins inching on the freeway to take a closer look. two cars are blocking the right
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lane and an argument is underway. as emile slows down, he sees things are escalating quickly. >> i was like, oh, my god. they're going to jump him. i'm thinking i need to record this. >> emile rolls down his window with his radio blasting. he's inches from the fight. >> so i filmed it from the passenger seat leaning over. >> it intensifies in an instant. both men toe to toe, fists in the air, begin what look like a bare knuckle boxing match in the middle of the road. >> the guy by himself was giving one of the guys upper cuts to the jaw, like some gnarly punches. >> but it doesn't stop there. >> i guess one of the guys said i'm not going to let my friend get taken advantage of. so they started jumping him. >> getting both of his attackers
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in a clinch, the man in the brightly colored shirt is only able to hold them for a brief moment. >> and then somehow he lost his balance, and they both slammed him. they're punching him on the ground and they started dragging him. and then one of the guys went from behind him and kicked him in the face. >> the man is knocked unconscious. but the two aggressors continue to deliver blow after blow to his limp body on the ground. >> it was just devastating. you know? it was just, like, brutal. >> the two assailants quickly leave the scene, unaware that the entire attack is caught on camera. witnesses rushed to the site. >> did you take a picture of that? >> i got the whole thing. >> get the license plate. hey, get the license plate. >> i was thinking, like, this guy is either dead or he's suffering like a major concussion. >> you all right, bro? >> onlookers call 911 to report the assault as emile continues to record and encourages the injured man back to his feet.
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>> get up. you can't get up? >> the victim not only survives the brutal beating, but the decides to drive away before the police even arrive. >> come on, dude. >> i said dude, you should wait here. you know? because i had to get to practice and everything. it's a normal day for me. he said he's fine driving, and he got in the car. >> by the time our units responded, all parties had left. traffic was moving. >> it's not until emile age uploads his video and it goes viral that the victim jerry patterson comes forward to police. patterson explains his side of the freeway fight on the local news. >> i cut three guys off accidentally. i tell them i'm sorry, my bad. they got in front of me and stopped the car. and it just escalated from there. >> jerry never thought the fight would escalate to the point that it did. for him, the next day is
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business as usual. >> the next morning i was really dizzy and coordination was off. but i took some aspirin. i had to go to work, you know? >> the california highway patrol asks the public for their help identifying jerry's attackers. >> the video did help in the sense it was a clear image of all parties' faces. we got a plethora of calls coming in. that totally helped the department in obtaining those individuals. >> in response to the video, both men turn themselves in. and are charged with two counts of assault. they plead not guilty. numerous people have questioned why emile didn't do more to help defend the man who was clearly out numbered. >> my mind-set was i want to jump in, this is wrong. but the best thing i can do is get it on tape so that the chp
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can do what they do, you know. you don't always have to be violent and be a good citizen. >> to videotape it is perfect evidence and helped us in obtaining the individuals. i applaud him for doing that. i don't know if he got out and helped that that would have escalated the situation and hurt himself. >> everybody can relate to road rage and being in l.a. traffic. >> you just don't know who you're talking to. you don't know what they're capable of. they could have a knife or gun. is it worth it? never. coming up, when a dare goes too far, there are serious consequences. >> i literally thought i just saw my friend die. >> when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues. u think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more.
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around his head. i literally thought i just saw my friend die. >> it's the fourth of july, 2006, in belton, texas. a city just outside of the biggest army base in the united states. fort hood. to beat the texas heat, soldiers and civilians alike head to a local swimming hole. a group of teenage boys are there that day. >> the lake during the summer is one of the biggest hangout spots. >> the group decides to bring a video camera to film their antics. >> we decided to film anything we thought was worth watching over and over. playing pranks on each other. we were just going to be adolescent boys at the lake. >> go now. >> the idea for this video is to record each other cliff jumping.
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an activity not unusual for a hot summer day. >> this is going to be funny. >> the cliff we were jumping off of was probably around 20 feet or so. there's not much runway. it's a lot of rock and brush. >> chris handly, a 15-year-old local is one of the teens. >> if you jump properly, you have no problems, you don't hit the bottom and bounce back up. and keep having fun. >> but if the jump falls short -- >> you land in water that's about this deep with jagged big rocks underneath. >> as the boys take turns launching themselves off the cliff and into the water below, a crowd begins to gather. >> i kind of felt obligated to do something, like put on for the party or whatever. >> so chris decides to take it up a notch. >> the plan was for chris' jump, he was going to set this bush on fire.
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he was going to jump over it. so the insanity level of this jump was up there, for sure. >> you can't even see it. >> pour the lighter fluid. hell yeah! >> as chris tries to light the bush on fire, cameras roll from above and below. jay jones is one of the teens filming. >> i was in between the bush and chris on top of the cliff filming. i guess mainly the only thing i was worried about was getting the bush lit on fire. i've seen chris jump over that bush before. >> you can hear jay shouting to make the fire bigger. >> that's not enough. >> first we tried lighter fluid. and it wasn't making a dramatic enough effect on the bush. so then it turned to the gas. >> now you got to light it again. >> we struggle for awhile to get it lit. >> just before chris is about to jump, spectators on a boat offer up another challenge. >> somebody dared me to do it
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naked. so it just went to another level. >> chris is the kind of guy, i've never seen him back down from a dare. >> it finally gets lit. >> yes! go! >> i felt rushed because the fire was going out fast. we used everything we had to make the fire. >> chris rushes to pull down his shorts before the dying fire goes out. but as he runs for the cliff, his friends can see that his swimming trunks never come completely off. >> as soon as i saw his shorts get caught, i instantly knew something bad was going to happen. >> chris trips just before the jump and falls 20 feet over the cliff's edge. >> he didn't jump out at all. his forward momentum pulled his body through the flaming bush and head-first down so the back of his head hits on the rocks. >> oh! >> oh, my god. >> oh! someone go down there.
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>> he disappeared over the edge. all of a sudden you hear a smack against the water. people started freaking out. >> oh [ bleep ]. >> aaron strunk doesn't think twice. he jumps in after chris. >> as soon as he surfaced, i saw him floating there. >> he was like a bobber on a fishing line. >> chris' body quickly begins to sink beneath the surface. >> we thought he might have just been passed out at first. that's when we started seeing the blood emerge. that's when things got real serious. >> call 911! >> luckily one of the boats of onlookers happen to be a group of army medics from ft. hood. they immediately jump into action and swim toward chris. as the medics try and stabilize chris, his friends are panicked. they fear they may have just filmed their friend's death. >> call 911 right now! >> one of the first things that
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popped in my head was he could very easily be dead. he could have very easily broken his neck from the fall and could be dead. we might have just seen our friend die. >> chris handly makes it to the hospital. and after five hours of brain surgery, he emerges alive. >> had a subdural and epidural hematoma. it was causing intercranial pressure. the doctors said i was really, really, really close to the point of not being able to come back. >> while chris may have eluded permanent injury, he and his friends are scarred from the memory of that day. it's a lesson they will never forget. >> the fact we caught a near-death experience on camera really, really reminds chris and
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all of us all the time that it can happen like that. and you're gone. and you're never coming back. so that alters some of the choices we make in life. >> with a little time, and maturity, the group gains perspective on the traumatic event. >> i definitely think i took it a little bit too far. it was just dumb and reckless. not a very smart idea. i would tell kids to just chill out and think about what you're doing before you do something that could possibly end your liech. life. >> oh [ bleep ]! oh [ bleep ]! coming up, a coach steps out of line. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> what he did is uncalled for. and it's horrible. >> and chaos erupts in the outfield. >> within that moment, they went at each other. >> stop it, guys! >> when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues.
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this pee wee hockey coach goes way too far when he takes down two young players on the ice. >> a full grown man picking on minors? it's ridiculous. what he did is uncalled for and it's horrible. >> the canadian culture has long been defined by its love of hockey. even the $5 bill celebrates the nation's pride with children playing the sport. but in 2012 at a rink in vancouver, british columbia, one coach brings shame to the game. like many young players, elizabeth papasis' son was introduced to the sport at a very young age. >> he has played since the age of 4. >> at age 10, he was playing for
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richmond steel, in a championship game against the uvc hornets in yellow. >> we were all hyped up, like all the parents. my family members were there, too. we were all rooting for them. >> team manager tammy holeg is also at the arena, cheering for her 13 and 11-year-old sons, who were also in blue. >> this particular league, everybody wants to win. it's good hockey. >> at the sound of the closing buzzer, the hornets prevail, winning 5-4. the final game of the season may be over, but the action on the ice is just about to heat up. >> at the end of every game, you have your handshake, which is a sportsmanship thing. nhl does it when they lose a stanley cup. everybody does it. and that's where everything changed.
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>> coach martin trumblet of the hornets doesn't look like a man who just took the gold. instead, he seems to rush through the line of the children, barely shaking any hands. >> seems like he was on a mission trying to get at a certain boy. so when we saw that he sticks his foot out and trips my son and the other boy, they both fall down. >> outrage erupts. it appears the coach intentionally trips two players. elizabeth's son is one of them. >> i was so angry that he did that. my son, he was pretty shocked. he's a very sensitive boy. why would he do that? i don't understand why an adult would do that. >> the other boy, whose family requested he not be identified, breaks his wrist in the fall. according to witnesses, this boy was the target of the coach's rage the entire game.
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>> it's horrifying, because it doesn't matter what the kid did, if he did anything, that an adult had to do that. it's awful. >> the hornets coach denies the trip was on purpose and says he merely slipped on the ice. but parents on the richmond steel disagree. they call the paramedics for the injured minor and the police for martin trumblet. >> we were all angry, the parents got up and were screaming. the coach gave the bird to us. so it wasn't a pleasure to watch. >> and then the icing on the cake? a hornets player follows his coach's lead and throws a water bottle at the crowd. >> a coach is not just a coach. they're also your mentor. you have to lead by example. if you do it, it's okay for them to do it. >> in an ugly scene, the hornets players support their coach's bad behavior and skate off the
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ice, taunting the angry crowd. >> the coach tripping really, really took away from the kids. >> martin tremblet pleads guilt toy assault. he is sentenced to 15 days in jail and 12 months probation. he is banned from coaching in the hockey league. and since the video hit the internet, the court of public opinion has already convicted him of being a sore winner. >> i think it's disgusting. i mean, they won the game. that's it. you should be happy. shake hands and go home. >> i think that's why it went so viral and went so big, because it's -- it's embarrassing for him. >> can you imagine if he did lose what would happen? parents at a little league baseball game strike out as role models when a fight breaks out on the sidelines. >> you just hear people screaming from the center field. within that moment, they went at
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each other. >> stop it, guys! >> july 6, 2012. in columbus, georgia, little league is a big deal. home to the 1996 olympic softball games, the town has dozens of diamonds. >> there's a major little league pride here. we have a number of kids playing in the majors now from columbus. in our newspaper it says "locals in the majors." >> it's midway through summer. but for little leaguers, it's the end of the baseball season. joe paul, a reporter for the local paper, is covering the district championship game. >> it was the last night of a tournament. the kids are playing every night. i was shooting photos for a gallery for our website. >> family and fans surround the field as northern little league
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take on the harris county all-stars. this man runs the little league here. he knows how important the win is to the players but also to the parents. >> to the winner, it meant going to the state tournament. losers go home. the fans were, you know, they were all revved up on both sides, supporting their teams. >> the game is a shutout. northern defeats harris county 10-0. >> they were jumping up. they were high fiving each other. everyone was excited. [ cheers and applause ] >> to celebrate his son's win, a father on the sidelines, charles davidson blasts a not-so-subtle
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song "all i do is win." >> all i do is win, win, win no matter what. which kind of rubbed it in the faces of the losing team. >> probably was bragging. all we do is win. >> the harris county fans are not amused. >> one guy came over to tell him to turn the music down. he said i'm going to mess you up. and the other guy said here i am. and within that moment, they went at each other. and then you just hear people screaming from the center field. >> chaos erupts just over the fence with a fight between the family members of opposing teams. >> i see punching, and mostly pushing and shoving and wrestling. people jumping in, trying to break it up. >> what are you doing? >> so everyone's there to kind of break it up, but they're also taking sides at the same time. >> the one-on-one quickly escalates into a brawl. >> you know, we always get a bit of bickering between parents. but nothing to this magnitude. >> wives worry about their husbands. >> i'm not in it, honey.
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i'm way on this end of it. >> i'm back here. i'm on the fringe. >> and coaches bring the children together to shield them from the drama. >> that's stupid. >> we told them, you know, it's nothing you did. you're all out here playing ball. they got out of hand. >> soon parents on both sides call the police. they arrest the two men at the center of the argument on charges of disorderly conduct. charles davidson and iram king. >> he came over here and jumped on me! >> i know. i saw that. >> iram king pleads guilty while the charges are dropped against davidson. despite the fighting among the grownups, the kids show great camaraderie. >> kids showed remarkable sportsmanship. they had a group picture taken together and, normally, the winning team will take the banner that we give them that
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says district 8 champions to take a lap around the field. they invited the harris county team to go with them. >> in this instance, it's the kids who set the example for their parents. >> often said, the only reason we need an umpire is for the managers and coaches. kids get out there and have a good time. coming up, a crowd is stunned when an escape act turns to disaster. when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues. (mother vo) when i was pregnant... i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of me and my baby. luckily, unitedhealthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get the right care and guidance-before and after the baby is born. simple is good right now.
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staff. a train derailed spilling 6,500 gallons of crude oil. that cleanup is under way. most of the spill was contained. and now we're going to take you back to "caught on camera." a daring stunt goes awry when a magician dangling 50 feet in the air catches fire. >> oh, my god! >> i was really scared that he was getting burned badly. or even die. >> where are we supposed to go? >> the blue tarp. >> august 28, 1998, mt. clemmons, michigan, a suburb of detroit.
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every year the bat city festival draws thousands of people to the banks of the clinton river. >> jasen's the man! >> the closing act is a popular entertainer and magician, jasen magic. >> he had this grand idea. he really wanted to break through the local market into a national spotlight. >> jasen is performing an extraordinary feat, one that has taken four months to prepare. it's a well-known escape act created by harry houdini in the '20s. the stunt entails hanging upside down and escaping from a straight jacket. only he plans to take it up a notch. >> he was going to perform this stunt with the rope that was holding him up, upside down, on fire.
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>> jasen's best friend, joe chasny, works as his coordinator and emcee for the evening. he remembers the day clearly. >> we were out on site really, really early. we had to run through so many things with so many people. >> jasen's entire family is in attendance. >> how do you feel about your brother performing? >> very, very calm. >> they filmed the events of the day from a distance. >> so excited! >> the local news is there to cover jasen's story. as jasen gets ready to take the stage, the weather begins to turn. >> you maybe can't see, but there's a huge storm blowing in here. the wind is majorly picking up. and it's raining. >> night falls and the crowd is filled with anticipation. >> we were so concerned with putting on an entertaining show -- i'm telling you, it
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never occurred to us at any moment that the rain would be a factor. a hurricane could have come through michigan, wouldn't have stopped us. >> but as the rain began pouring down, they need to make adjustment. >> because of the rain, we wanted to put a bit of extra fuel on the platform and on the rope. i knew the fire would burn through the rain as long as we had more fuel than we had rain. >> minutes away from the performance, jasen appears relaxed, even jovial. >> and they set the magician on fire too. >> just after 9:00 p.m., joe makes the announcement. it's show time! >> ladies and gentlemen, the man of the hour! jasen magic! let's hear it. make some noise! >> a professional camera crew records the action as jasen gets strapped into the harness and joe lights the rope on fire.
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meanwhile, jasen's sister in the audience can barely watch. >> oh, god be with you, jasen. i've got the hugest lump in my throat. >> the crane lifts jasen upside down 50 feet above the river. >> so jasen's job was to get out of the straight jacket, detach himself from the harness. he'd be free and clear from the rope. and with any luck as he's being brought down, the rope burns through showing a dramatic finish to a successful stunt. >> but things don't go as planned. immediately, joe sees jasen struggling with the straight jacket. >> the canvas that these straight jackets are made from will shrink and tighten in the rain. it's just that much harder to get out of. >> jasen's sister is getting impatient. >> go, jasen. my god, go!
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>> with seconds counting down until the rope burns through, jasen begins to break free. >> he's got one arm. he's got his arms. come on! >> go, jasen! >> after three minutes in the air, jasen escapes from the straight jacket, and the crowd goes wild. >> he's not done yet. he's got the rope. he needs to make his way to the safety rope in time before the rope burns through. >> now i'm really relieved. all he's got to do is get the clip off of the harness and man, we're good to go. we're free. we're home free. and he starts pulling on the thing and tugging on it, you know, twisting it around. what's going on? why can't he get the clip free? >> panic begins to set in as it appears jasen is stuck to the burning rope. he cannot unclip from the harness and no one's able to reach him. >> bring it down, bring it down. >> oh, my god!
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>> in a terrible turn of events, the flaming platform falls directly on to jasen and it seems he is burning alive in front of thousands of people, including his own family. [ screaming ] >> i didn't hesitate a nanosecond and i told that crane operator bring him down. we needed to get him down and close to us. >> jasen's sister yells in desperation. >> i remember people yelling, go faster, bring him down. but he couldn't. he was literally going as fast as he could. >> the crane operator lowers jasen into the river as firefighters battle the flames. >> i saw him lifeless, hanging back. i was really, really scared. i didn't know what the situation was at that point. i knew it wasn't good.
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>> but then slowly joe chasny sees signs of life in his friend. it turns out the burning platform hung just centimeters away from jasen's body, causing only minor burns. >> the only bruise i got was to the ego of a perfectionist, who wanted to finish a stunt the way he wrote it on paper. >> ladies and gentlemen, let's give a big round of applause to jasen magic! >> i was so emotional. >> do you want to say anything to the fans? >> yeah. >> and now ladies and gentlemen, jasen magic. >> i put the microphone on, took a big swallow, thanked everybody for being there. apologized to everybody. >> whatever you do, don't hang
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upside down with a burning rope. you'd be an idiot to. thanks again. >> jasen may have failed to complete the stunt the way he imagined it, but he does get the attention he had hoped for. and the entertainer in him will never let one disappointment stop him from going even bigger the next time. in fact, he performs this stunt again a year later over a bed of fiery nails. >> i think everybody enjoys just a little more. just give it an extra little kick. i think that's what the audience wants. i believe the next stunt is just going to have just a little bit more than this last one. coming up, a horrifying look inside one new york school when a teacher is caught on camera beating a student. >> nobody have no right to do that to anybody's children. >> and later, a grandma becomes a target of relentless bullying.
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experian . live credit confident.™ caught on camera. a teacher goes too far when he disciplines a student with a beating. >> i thought when you send your kids to school, the school is supposed to be a safe haven, not a teacher pulling your kid and knocking him to the ground. >> june 2012. a reporter from "the new york daily news," ben chapman, obtains disturbing footage from a high school in brooklyn, new york. >> i received an e-mail from an anonymous source, identifying themselves only as angry administrator. >> the silent video is from three months earlier.
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and shows a 15-year-old student, christoph john, arriving in his high school. christoph's mom, diane. >> every child going to that school, they have a photo i.d. in the morning, when you enter the school, you have to scan the i.d. >> according to christoph, the school security dean and teacher stefan hudson asks him to step to the side when his i.d. doesn't work. christoph says when he tries to go through security again, the dean becomes enraged believing he is acting disrespectfully. >> immediately i could see it was in violation of the rules of the department of education and probably it looked like something that was illegal, possibly criminal to me. we went to diane john's house to show her the video of her son involved in this altercation with the dean. >> when i first saw the video, i got nervous.
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like my belly start hurting. i feel my stomach left where it was and went somewhere else. i see the dean grab on to him and throw him down. picks him up, throw him into a table violently. picks him up again and throw him to the ground. >> at 5'5," 120 pounds, the 15-year-old boy is no match for the dean, who is more than twice his size. >> they throw him around like a rag doll. so he was trying to get up. but he couldn't. the man had him in a lockdown there. >> for christoph's mom, the only thing worse than watching the brutality against her son is knowing that when he came home that day and told her what happened, she didn't believe him. she says the school told her it was christoph who was aggressive toward a teacher.
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>> the same dean who was beating on my child is the same dean that call me. when my son came home, i asked him. i said what happened at school today? and he start telling me, but i said to him the school gave me one story and now you give me a different one. so i don't know who to believe. you don't think the school is going to lie to you. >> according to diane, the principal calls a few days after the dean to discuss the problem. >> the principal call and she told me there was an incident that happened in the school with christoph. she is going to look into it and get back to me. she never call me back. >> it's not until the reporter shows diane the beating that she realizes what happened. >> i was like, oh, my god. i can't believe this. i am pissed. that was my words. nobody have no right to do that to anybody's children. i don't care if my child was rude to you. you have no right putting your hand on him. >> christoph refuses to return to school for his sophomore year and moves to his mother's native country of grenada to live with family.
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>> i know my child. i saw the change in him. he was not interested in school anymore. my son never behave like that before. >> diane john sues the city of new york. when the video surfaces, the department of education immediately removes the dean from classrooms. following a hearing in march 2013, he is fined and ordered to attend an anger management course. in april 2013, the case against the city is settled for $50,000. hudson begins the school year n in. >> we should always believe our kids. because you know what? the truth came out in the light. coming up, another case of bullying. but this time it's the kids who cross the line. >> you're a troll. a troll. >> you're old. >> you're ugly.
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"caught on camera" vicious behavior on a school bus brings a bus monitor to her breaking point. >> are you sweating? are you sweating? why is there water on your face? >> i'm crying. >> i thought it was only kids that got bullied. i really didn't think too much about adults. >> unless you have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. >> how about you shut the [ bleep ] up? >> june 18, 2012. greece, new york. for students at athena middle school, it's the last week of classes before their summer break. 68-year-old karen kline is a bus monitor and has worked in the school system for more than 20 years.
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the bus driver asks karen to supervise the back of the bus on the ride home from school. >> it was always the same kids that went to the back of the bus. every once in awhile, they'd make a snide remark. i told my driver i didn't want to go back there this day. >> oh, my god. you're so fat. >> out of earshot of the bus driver, the group of four rowdy boys starts taunting karen, recording the whole thing on a camera phone. >> you're so fat. you take up the entire seat. >> when kids bully, what they're looking for is a vulnerable target and a big reaction from that target. that's what makes bullying fun. >> triple sag? >> triple sag. >> look at her [ bleep ] stomach. >> but karen keeps her composure for the time being. >> i was trying to ignore them. i really was. >> you're a troll. you're a troll. you old troll.
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>> the bullies seem thrilled by the notion that the video will later be seen online. >> so you're putting this up on facebook? >> they thought this was a cool thing. they thought they'd get a ton of likes on facebook and get a lot of laughs. they thought they'd be heroes. they weren't thinking about the consequences. they're not connecting real things to those words. >> i'm going to [ bleep ] take a crap in your mouth. >> i'm going to break into your house and then steal everything. >> wait. there's nothing to steal. >> they were increasing their taunts and their harassment. even their physical touching of her. they were doing anything in their power to get her to react. that, for them, would have been the prize. but she was not going to take the bait. >> karen. he touched you. >> he freaking just touched your arm flab. >> the barrage of insults and profanity continues on the bus. no one appears to stop it. >> you old ass. you're going to die of [ bleep ] diabetes because you're so fat. >> i tried to make it go away so
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it couldn't hurt me. >> she's going to get her freaking sweat all over it. she's going to pick out which kid she's going to rape next. >> but i gave up. >> and then one particular dig that karen will never forget. >> but you don't have a family because they all killed themselves because they didn't want to be near you. >> tragically, karen kline's son did commit suicide years earlier. whether the students were aware of that fact is unclear. >> i was trying to think if i had told them about rusty. i don't know. >> the ten-minute video of karen's devastating bus ride home quickly goes viral. people worldwide are upset and outraged, including one man 170 miles away in toronto, canada. >> i couldn't watch it until the end. i was so shocked.
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i was so appalled, i almost started crying when i saw her getting abused like that. >> immediately max decides to take action. he starts an online fund raiser to give karen the vacation of a lifetime. the goal, raise $5,000 in 30 days. >> i don't think anyone could have expected what happened. i could never have expected what happened. >> within three hours, the site reaches the goal. within three days, people donate more than $200,000. >> this whole internet community, 86 countries, they all came together to help this woman out. >> after 30 days of fund raising, the grand told is more than max ever expected. karen kline receives more than $700,000. >> i was blown away. i really was. i still am. >> karen retires from the school
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system and intends on taking that dream vacation. she also plans on donating to charities that are close to her heart. but karen's greatest treasure from this experience is the outpouring of love she receives from around the world. >> wonderful, wonderful messages. letters, i mean, books. can't even begin to mention all the wonderful people. it's great. >> karen's middle school tormenters and their parents issue an apology. the school takes action against the children. 50 hours of community service with senior citizens. completion of a bully prevention program, and suspension from school for one whole year. >> in this situation, they clearly took it too far. but you have to remember that most of these kids aren't really bad kids. 95% of kids who bully can be rehabilitated.
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that's really our goal. >> i really hope they've learned their lesson. i really do. no, stop! >> a school bus driver drunk on the job. >> get off the bus! you can get off the bus. an elderly man who robs banks at gunpoint. >> this is not a pathetic old man. this is a man who is using a gun. a priest on a belligerent tirade. >> i'm in jail! >> no you're not. you're in a holding cell. and an armed thief with impeccable manners. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. and i really am sorry. >> these are not the usual cases. >> that's the very first time we

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