. >> daisy coleman said she was raped last year when her and a friend snuck out of the coleman houseand met some boys. charges against the boys were dropped and while some have been outraged, others have turned their anger on the accuser. >> i feel like we haven't been on the same team. >> melinda coleman feels justice was denied for her daughter daisy. the 14-year-old was given alcohol, raped by a 17-year-old acquaintance, and left on her porch unconscious in freezing cold weather. they dropped the charges saying that the colemans refused to cooperate during their deposition. >> they understood that by invoking their fifth amendment right, by doing so it was going to force the dismissal of the case. >> rice announced wednesday that the publicity around the case prompted him to ask the judge to appoint a special prosecutor to look at the evidence. that could open the door to new charges being filed. >> i felt really weak, worn down, just like i wasn't worth anything, so it mean as lot to have support now. >> but melinda coleman feels investigators did not do initially in the beginnin

and they call the colemans in to testify. and she says that's ridiculous. i'm not going on torture my daughter by testifying in this thing. and he said well, take fifth then. this is according to what she said to me earlier. there is miscommunication and it is a set of faktss. and i think the prosecutor has a lot of questions. has to answer publicly about this case and not hide behind these phony secrecy. he gave a press conference. and he said she took fifth during her testimony. he has already revealed part of the testimony. how does he get off saying i can't talk about it. i'm not buying that. >> we'll continue to call him and hope he will give his side of the story. thank you very much. >>> now our sixth story, why was a mentally disabled man gunned down by dallas police? officers had said the man, his name is bobby gerald bennett. he is 53 years old. they said he advanced with a knife on his hand in the moments before they opened fire so it was essentially self-defense. the dallas police department is now dropped the aggravated charges against bennett

coleman says she was fired from her job.lemans picked up and moved away again, away from the small american town that was supposed to give them a new lease on life. >> well, daisy coleman and her mother are out front giving an exclusive interview. thank you, we know it is difficult to come on and tell your story, with such a difficult matter, in some ways, daisy, it will be a night you will never forget, and other ways, it is hard to remember. you were with that football player, what do you remember? >> i remember watching scary movies with my friend, just having a fun time. and after we snuck out we got into this car where matt picked us up. and he drove us to his house and we snuck in through his house through his basement window. and i went to sit on his couch and he gave me a big glass of clear liquid. and that is all i remember. >> and that is all you remember, and melinda, you woke up in the morning, and you found daisy scratching on the window and barely conscious, when did you recognize that something horrific had ha

that's the last daisy coleman remembers about that night.st morning, daisy was found outside her front door with no socks, shoes or coat dee dee -- despite freezing temperatures. her mother gave her a bath and noticed sexual signs. they had found his sister drunk at a party and brought her home and dropped her off. the goal was to keep anybody from finding out they had sex. the football player, from a prominent political family was arrested and charged with sexual assault. his friend was charged with recording the incident on an iphone. but about two months later, all the charges were dropped except for a misdemeanor, endangering the life of a child by leaving daisy out in the cold. the prosecuting attorney was ready to prosecute, but both the victim and her family refused to cooperate. >> the only people's stories that have been inconsistent throughout this whole thing are the colemans, the victims in this case. and i don't know why that is, but it is. >> reporter: those claims don't add up according to melinda coleman. there were threats m

did daisy coleman deserve justice?rrests but prosecuting attorney robert rice dropped all the charges citing insufficient evidence. in a statement he claims the victim would not agree to testify. >> that's a lie. >> why would he say that? >> i don't know. we thought we had done everything. he never said anything else. nobody ever asked us for anything else. >> reporter: the accused walked free while daisy said she was punished. at school and online daisy said people hurled hateful words. >> like the w word, the b word. the s word. just basically throwing out anything they could. >> reporter: the family felt their only option was to move. but then this happened. fire broke out at the home they were trying to sell. investigators never found the origin. but whether it was arson or just an accident, it was a sign the coleman family couldn't ignore. now social media is burning up with outrage over the coleman story. the group anonymous has taken up the family's cause. people around the country calling for justice for daisy,

nearly two years ago a fourteen year old cheerleader named daisy coleman was allegedly raped by seventeen year old matthew barnett and left to freeze to death outside of her house and married phil missouri it's a tale we've heard far too often star football player rapes young student in the town ends up blaming the victim resulting in no consequences for the perpetrator oh and did i mention that the alleged rapist is also the grandson of a missouri congressman but this story gets even more dark. after being ridiculed suspended from the chair of the squad and forced out of town daisy came home to her house suspiciously burned to the ground so why are we hearing about this tragedy now two years later well after prosecutors dropped the charges against barnett the hacktivist group anonymous revived the case and started online campaign to put pressure on marriage bills government and just today hundreds of residents gathered to show solidarity and demand justice for daisy so to talk more about anonymous is role in all of this i was joined earlier by our producer and your blake and i first aske

coleman case and as that information became more and more just all encompassing and just because able to just smother people it got people to talk so much so that the prosecutor in the case had to actually reopen it and that's the latest developments we've seen incredible i mean it's great that anonymous is filling the void where the prosecutors obviously dropped the ball for the last two years i mean completely no attention it's just one of those other stories of these star football players who just kind of get off scot free with really agree just crimes and you mentioned the twitter star might is one of the these house tags justice for daisy and daisy if people want to follow those let's talk about steubenville this is another rape case that anonymous got involved and actually we saw on a lead an on get attacked the f.b.i. raided his home whatever happened to perpetrators in that case and talk about derrick lawsuit or was that a chilling effect meant to send a kind of other and on this case i mean i don't think so personally to back up the two perpetrators were convicted and are ser

>> correct. >> reporter: belinda coleman said she never agreed to that.dell says "while his client admits the sexual encounter with daisy coleman the legal issue is whether a crime was committed. subsequent investigation and interviews raised substantial doubt about the felony charge, specifically including whether the young lady was incapacitated during the encounter." daisy coleman and her family moved out of maryville after this all happened. they left so quickly they never even sold their house. now they never will. because this what is happened to it. fire burned it down. the fire department says it has not determined a cause. but the family was and is suspicious. for now, daisy is in a new school and doing much better, she says. her mother and paige's mother are still hoping that someday they see justice. >> she is my hero. >> how does it feel to hear your mom say something like that? >> feels really good. >> gary tuchman joins me now from maryville, missouri. gary, now the lieutenant governor asked for the case to be reopened. could that actually h

>> correct. >> reporter: belinda coleman said she never agreed to that. says "while his client admits the sexual encounter with daisy coleman the legal issue is whether a crime was committed. subsequent investigation and interviews raised substantial doubt about the felony charge, specifically including whether the young lady was incapacitated during the encounter." daisy coleman and her family moved out of maryville after this all happened. they left so quickly they never even sold their house. now they never will. because this what is happened to it. fire burned it down. the fire department says it has not determined a cause. but the family was and is suspicious. for now, daisy is in a new school and doing much better, she says. her mother and paige's mother are still hoping that someday they see justice. >> she is my hero. >> how does it feel to hear your mom say something like that? >> feels really good. >> gary tuchman joins me now from maryville, missouri. gary, now the lieutenant governor asked for the case to be reopened. could that actually happe

prosecutor robert rice cited not enough evidence and the colemans' refusal to cooperate. melinda believes it was a favor since barnett's grandfather was a police officer and politician. this week the kansas city star published the seven-month investigation into daisy's story. after outcry online, rice defended himself but called for a special investigator to again review the facts. >> i stand by my choice based on the evidence that i had and what transpired during the investigation. and everything that happened after a ward. >> reporter: the past two years haven't been easy for the colemans. daisy was bullied online and at school and attempted suicide twice. melinda was fired. last august they moved to a town 45 minutes away. this spring the home they owned in maryville mysteriously burned down, the cause unclear. will you get justice? >> i don't know if we'll get everything that i feel we need or we want. but just the start is really good. >> reporter: do you think he should go to jail? >> i think he should. >> reporter: matthew barnett is now in college in missouri. in

colemans say that is a lie.they believe the real reason charges were dropped, one of the accused, matt barnett, his grandfather, is a former state representative. >> special prosecutor announced, what's your reaction to that? >> i think it's great. i think this actually may be the one thing that finally gets the truth out. >> reporter: after it does, this missouri town of 12,000 will begin the tough job of asking itself the tough questions. >> after this process is come to a conclusion, need to back down, [ inaudible ] to increase awareness in the community. >> neither coleman nor her mother attended that rally. >>> a washington state couple are in critical condition today, after the van they were in exploded. the thurston county sheriff's office in yelm, washington, said the man altered the van's fuel system and a 55-gallon drum of gas exploded. when firefighters arrived, they found the vehicles fully engulfed in flames. it's unclear how much gas was in that drum. >>> the fda is appealing to dog and cat owners

. >> these charred remains are all that is left of the house where daisy coleman and her family used to live in the small town of maryville, missouri. her ordeal started two years ago when she was a 14-year-old freshman cheerleader. she and a 13-year-old friend were having a sleepover at the house that is now a pile of ashes. >> i began texting this boy on the football team and he asked if i wanted to hang out with him. >> daisy says she went to the home of 17-year-old high school football player matthew barnett. a party was going on in the basement with other student athletes. >> i remember sitting on the couch in the basement living room and them handing me a tall clear glass and that's all i remember. >> daisy's mom found her the next morning laying in the front yard. she couldn't walk or talk and was dressed only in a t-shirt and sweat pants. no shoes or socks. the temperature outside was 22 degrees. daisy's hair was frozen to her head. barnett was charged with sexual assault but it was daisy who was ostracized when she returned to school. one student tweeted that's what you get

. >> reporter: daisy coleman and her mother say it's a small victory to have their case re-opened. >> court to appoint a special prosecuting attorney to conduct an independent review of the facts and determine whether to refile charges. >> reporter: for the first time the man at the zr of the controversial case is speaking out. prosecutor robert rice under fire after dropping charges in the alleged sexually assault of daisy coleman. now asking for a separate review of the case, he stands by his actions claiming daisy and her friend paige, another alleged victim, refused to testify. >> i can't go into their minds. i don't know. ma'am, i can tell you we were very careful and deliberty to make sure we were recording that there was no misunderstanding that when they at that time invoked their fifth amendment right was going to force the dismissal of the case. >> reporter: the coleman family believes they dropped the charges not due to lack of evidence, but because of barnett's deep-rooted ties to the communities. >> i think it was football player and had lots of power and connection and w

. >> reporter: melinda and daisy coleman spoke out.melinda found daisy passed out on the front lawn wearing only a t-shirt and sweat pants. >> i asked her if she was hurting and she started to cry. at that point i called 911 and we took her to the hospital. >> it was about when we got to the hospital that i started putting two and two together and that i really started remembering some of the things that happened the night before. >> reporter: daisy says she and a 13-year-old friend sneaked out of her house and went to the home of a 17-year-old member of the maryville high school football team. a typical teenage party took a turn for the worse. excessive alcohol consumption and then a sexual encounter, possibly even videotaped. he told police it was consensual. she says absolutely not. police quickly filed charges of sexual assault. >> i thought something would be done about it and that it wouldn't happen again. >> reporter: but then the charges were dropped. the prosecutor cited lack of evidence. melinda says she believes the family o

coleman says some boys gave her some alcohol at a party where later she said she was allegedly raped. the accused boy maintains the sex was consensual. >>> that story is trending right now. also trending, deal reached. congress agreed on a budget deal that avoided the debt ceiling deadline and default and reopened the federal government. bart strikes trains up and running as bart management and the unions continue their talks. miley cyrus always trending. her new album bangers debuted at number one on the billboard 200 and oreos. the new study suggests that america's favorite cookie is as addictive as cocaine remember, you can follow us on twitter #cbssf. >> are you a dunker? >> i'll eat it anyway but i like the filling first. >> as long as you get it. >>> how about, you liza? >> i'm a splitter. split it apart, check it out, then go for it. >>> good morning, everybody. we are going to talk about the thursday commute where as we have been reporting to you on kpix 5, bart trains are rolling no strike for now. and they are operating with no delays on the system. no problems for ferries,

i extended an invitation to minister coleman.l be the first new zealand navy ship has visited pearl harbor in 30 years. ship willg of the also strengthen the relationship and add to the rebalance to the pacific. i will ask for minister coleman for his comments. to begin by saying it is great to be here in washington. thank you for your hospitality. as you outlined, there is a long history between the u.s. and new zealand. it is a history built on common values. todaytheme of our talk was looking forward to future cooperation with the u.s., we are looking for common ground where we can extend cooperation. we are very keen to help build peacekeeping capacity amongst nations across the asia-pacific region. we have made great strides over the last two years on the back of the wellington decoration -- declaration and the washington declaration. we greatly appreciate the restriction of docking ships in u.s. ports. -- see these to risk resumption of military to military talks. we have not seen him for a number of decades. we are looking

. >> reporter: alleged sexual assault victim daisy coleman and her mother say it's a small victory toave their case reopened. >> i've asked the court to point a special prosecuting attorney to conduct an independent review of the facts and determine whether to refile charges. >> reporter: for the first time, the man at the center of a controversial case is speaking out. prosecutor robert rice under fire after dropping charges in the alleged sexual assault of 14-year-old daisy coleman. while now asking for a separate review of the case, he stands by his actions claiming daisy and her friend paige, another alleged victim, refused to testify. >> i can't go into their minds. i don't know. i can just tell you this, we were very careful, very deliberate to make sure that we recorded that there was no misunderstanding that they understood by when they, at that time, invoked their fifth amendment right that by doing so was going to force the dismissal of the case. >> reporter: the coleman family believes rice dropped the charges against 17-year-old m j matthew barnett not because of lack of e

eli coleman. i guess fr the time wavery young, couldn't understand why everyone kept telling me that i was a girl and i shld be doing thgs that girls do. that i was a girl because as far as i was concerned, i was a boy, and i didn't understand. there was a lot of confusion. didn't know how to relate to... anyone else. uh... it's just very uncomfortable. it makes you feel crazy. this is a female-to-male transsexual who always thought of herself as a boy. she had extreme discomfort with her body as it changed from a you girl to an adt woman. and with those changes, there was increasing anxiety and discomfort about her breasts, her genitalia, and also out their gender role. their role as a female felt very uncomfortable. oftentimes, they just feel that somehow they were just given the wrong body. in their mind, they felt themselves to be of the other sex. i know that when i started going through puberty, um... i decided that-- up until tt time, i d figured that everyone was wrong and eventually i wou

>> the only stories that have been consistent are the victims in this case. >> reporter: melinda coleman times became more challenging after the incident. she and her daughter moved away from maryville after it happened. but before they could sell their home they returned here to find it burned to the ground. to this day, fire officials are unsure of the cause. both families say their girls were taunted and ridiculed at school, daisy admitting she attempted suicide. >> there is one charge remaining, that is the misdemeanor child endangerment charge. they dropped everything else in two weeks and never told us anything. >> reporter: the sheriff's department says that the 15-year-old accused of sexually assaulting paige was dealt with by juvenile authorities but 17-year-old barnett and the teen who took video saw their charges dropped. daisy's mother believes that matthew got special treatment because of his last name. his grandfather, a former state respective. >> i knew because as long as i have been in politics and law enforcement i knew if it was drug in very long i would be pulled into

. >> well, this is a gentleman boy the name of william coleman, a young lawyer from philadelphia who is on the staft warren commission. >> schieffer: when who went on to become secretary of transportation in the ford administration. >> that's correct. he's in charge of the conspiracy team on the warren commission. and he actually knows fidel castro from his days in jazz clubs in harlem, and apparently during his visits to new york, castro would visit. and he, coleman, is sent out on a boat to the waters off ciewrk very secretly, to meet with fidel castro, to hear what castro has to say-- which is he insists he did not have any involvement in president kennedy's assassination. >> schieffer: you know, tom, lyndon johnson never accepted the warren commission report that there was no conspiracy. he told joe califano, one of his senior aides, others in the information, the kennedys were trying to get castro, and castro got him first. did he ever have any evidence of that or was that just a suspicion that he had? to the best of my knowledge, president johnson, former president johnson, nev

did daisy coleman deserve justice?olutely." >> reporter: the sheriff's office arrested the then 17- year-old high school senior, matthew barnett and two of his friends in january 2012. for allegedly sexually assaulting daisy and her friend, paige bourland. but prosecuting attorney robert rice dropped the charges against barnett. citing "insufficient evidence". in a statement, he says the victims "refused to cooperate" and wouldn't agree to testify. >> "that's a lie. why would he say that? >> "i don't know. we thought we had done everything, he never said anything else. nobody even asked us for anything else." >> reporter: daisy's mother says it was rice who wanted them to plead the fifth and leave town. >> "we did not refuse to testify with the felony case. we absolutely did not." >> reporter: daisy's family believes the prosecutor was pressured into dropping the charges. because of the suspect's political and social status. barnett's lawyer released a statement saying while his client admits the sexual encounter with

i voted for gary coleman. i lived in california. >> did you vote for gary coleman? >> i voted to get rid of, what was his name? the governor? >> gray davis. >> gray davis and then i voted for gary coleman. also this isn't about changing the law. kniss is this is in the constitution. i don't know how you file a suit. you can't say the constitution is unconstitutional. bts the constitutional. >> wow. sitting in bolling's chair and -- >> absolutely. >> where's your little constitution? >> on my o iphone in my pocket. >> did he say sin seriously or just go -- going to get the rules changes -- >> this was in page 6. so, yes, he said it. so it definitely happened. >> and in the gossip column. >> any idea how truthful page 6 is, not on page 6. it hasn't been for years. >> very good point. >> bill, one bright spot about schwarzenegger he's also trying to create a law making it mandatory for the skins of america to punch you in the face every three hours, chi i think is pretty much better than once every hour. >> i was going to defend him, but then -- it is better than once

hundreds are gathered in the streets of maryville, for daisy coleman.was raped by a 17-year-old high school senior who plied her with alcohol. the county prosecutor dropped the charges citing a lack of evidence. pfls nearly two years ago. now a special prosecutor is looking at the case. kyung lah in maryville. >> reporter: the national media dedescribing on maryville. first physical gathering for protesters after social media fervor driven by online activist group anonymous under the hash tag, justice for daisy. >> this is a grassroots effort. there have been people throughout the entire nation that have been working to try to final some kind of solution in some way to help. that makes a difference. >> reporter: protester are energized. now that the teen rape case is being reopened. national pressure, it promised local politics would play no part. >> our review of this case would be without fear and without favor. >> key words for daisy coleman. just 14 years old. when she and a 13-year-old friend say they were raped by two high school boys after a nigh

hacking me one of the only ways to protect online civil liberties and apologise a professor dr dave coleman is an expert on hacker culture and particularly the hacktivist group anonymous she joined rake in a separate earlier talk about the group and the changing face of activism in the online world you started by asking what types of people comprise anonymous. and that everything from you know lost students to wealthy engineers to those who are. very poor or to people who are immigrants in the countries that they live and she kind of white middle class american so so it's quite a diverse bunch and i think the pseudo anonymity of it where you have a stable nickname but you don't reveal who your who you are helps to create conditions for remarkable diversity yeah it is amazing that they represent so many different ideas and so many different points of view within society but you did mention something very interesting anonymous has become almost synonymous with the word hacker which you mention which still has a very negative connotation in mainstream culture how would you define that word hac

hacking me one of the only ways to protect online civil liberties and apologise a professor dr dave coleman is an expert on hacker culture and particularly the hacktivist group anonymous she joined rake in a separate earlier talk about the group and the changing face of activism in the online world he started by asking what types of people comprise anonymous. i meant everything from you know last students to wealthy engineers to those who are. very poor or to people who are immigrants in the countries that they live and she kind of white middle class american so so it's quite a diverse bunch and i think the pseudo anonymity of it where you have a stable nickname but you don't reveal who your true you are helps to create conditions for remarkable diversity yeah it is amazing that they represent so many different ideas and so many different points of view within society but you did mention something very interesting anonymous has become almost synonymous with the word hacker which you mention which still has a very negative connotation in mainstream culture how would you define that word hack

on tuesday, coleman supporters held daisies as they gather near the town square.e hacker group anonymous helped organize the rally after initially calling attention to coleman's case. in ohio, a man who challenged the state and on gay marriage while dealing with a life- threatening illness has died. john arthur, who had lou gehrig's disease, and his husband tied the knot in maryland clear this year in order to ensure they were legally wed before the end of arthur's life. a federal judge leader ruled arthur's death certificate must his has been as the surviving spouse, ensuring they can be area next to each other on arthur's family plot. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. president obama is scheduled to meet with his pakistani counterpart later today amidst rising tension around the restaurant strikes in pakistan. the meeting between obama and pakistani prime minister naw

>>"he drove us to his house and we snuck into his house through his basement >> reporter:daisy colemanyears old, a freshman cheerleader at maryville high school, when she says she was raped by a 17-year- old senior -- a football player from a prominent local family. >>"he gave me a big glass of a clear liquid and that's all i remember." >> reporter:another teen reportedly videotaped daisy's alleged assault on a cell-phone. witnesses told police daisy was crying as she was carried out of the boy's bedroom. >>"you believe a sexual assault occurred." >>"absolutely." >> reporter:nodaway county sheriff darren white is certain daisy is a victim. he says the suspects even confessed to what happened. >>"which is why that we were within 4 hours of receiving the call able to have people in jail." >> reporter:arrested and charged -- but then daisy's case was dropped. >>"the only reason the prosecutor didn't move forward with this case is because he didn't have any victims. the victims chose not to be involved in this case, they chose to not cooperate." >>"she told them everything. and i also talk

coleman says she believes the political family of the accused helped make the charges disappear n.ng for the special prosecutor on wednesday, the district attorney said he dropped the case because the colemans refused to speak on the record. >> if they were wanting to put out the light, to come back to me. >> reporter: the colemans insist they did cooperate. what exactly happened is unclear t. court file on the investigation is sealed for now. what is clear is that life got even harder for daisy after her accusations went public. in marysville, many attacked daisy online. feeling overwhelmed the family moved 40 miles away. eight months later the house they still owned in marysville burned down t. fire's cause is undrmd. >> i was almost relieve when they said it was electrical. i hate to think they're vindictive. a part of me is still afraid. >> the story sparked a national outcry t. accused man is now in college, his mother worries about her son's safety. >> he has to be walked to class and having be escorted because of their safety. that needs to stop. >> born et's lawyer had no c

has been reported that -- >> the way it's been portrayed i don't buy that for a second. >> daisy coleman the alleged rape and snuck out of the house. she texted him she had been drinking and arrived at the house and drank more. but she says she doesn't remember anything after that, was her testimony. how difficult will it be to prosecute this case? >> there are other facts. there were allegedly videos taken and there are other witnesses there. but unfortunately -- >> a rape kit. >> sunny brought this up -- that proves sex. missouri's law is a little bit unusual. this will not be a statutory rape case only a forcible rape case. and that's it. you're right. there is evidence of sex but they have to prove lack of consent. >> sunny? >> that's right. and i don't know if a girl is completely inebriated i don't think it's that difficult to prove lack of consent. i can tell you, don, i don't think this is the last we have heard about this case. what i like about this case is that social media has put this small down on full blast. and the message is you can't hide any more. these sex crimes have

but daisy coleman is not backing down. she'll talk to us about her latest quest for justice and what life has been like at the center of the media storm. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the national lead and breaking news out of nevada, where panicked parents rushed to the scene of another deadly school shooting, this time at a middle school in sparks near reno, nevada. details have been slow to come in but we do know a staff member at the school was killed and the suspected gunman who has been described as a student also turned the gun on himself. joining us by phone is lieutenant eric thomas with the sparks police department. lieutenant thomas, thanks for being with us. can you tell us any more about how this went down? >> about 7:16 a.m., our time here, our dispatch center started receiving phone calls about numerous shots being fired at the sparks middle school. our officers responded to the scene and requested assistance from other agencies also in the county, including