they don't call it bullying or cyberbullying. they call it drama? >> that is correct.llying has such a negative connotation. they don't want to be labeled as cyber bully. they don't want to be bully. so they refer to it as drama, the drama that is going on with someone, it's all bullying. >> they are trying to minimize that behavior. >> cheryl: i wanted to get specifics. i want to start with three things that parents can do to try to prevent bullying or try to prevent their child of being bullied. i'll start with you? >> i think parents need that ongoing conversation with their kids. it's not a one time talk. its continuation of what is going in their life. i think they need to monitor their passwords and associate sites and smart phone do they need a data plan. what are they using their phone for. check in with the phone at night. not let them have it in their bedrooms. get that phone with and keep up the discussion. >> cheryl: how about the kids? >> it's an open discussion. one of the things where the kids have to know. parents the guardians and adults in their life

how can somebody cyberbully you to the point of suicide. the way that happens, after i thought about it, is the humiliation and anything -- even if it's not true. there's no way to take that back. and now enstead of being humiliated to yourself and to your fantasy about who else knows about this or who else has heard this, you don't have to fantsoys, you know thousands of people out there have seen this. and that is one of the tox exthings i see in the social media the way it's organized now and the tox exthing about being able to speak your piece on mail and on that media, immediately before you've even had a chance to think about it and the destruction possibilities are very real. >> thank you. >> i have a followup on that same point, google is coming out with- fwoogle is coming out with their new google tpwhrass, life with subtitelts as they imagine it, with your camera and recorder on and we already have the memory capability now that not only a goog -- not only google takes a picture but google records my every weaking moment and every

. >> well, at school and some people try to cyberbully me. they try to get to me with words. but that doesn't really work. >> do you think they're jealous? >> maybe, i don't know. >> it's understandable this vulnerable 15-year-old girl could suffer from depression. >> but i think it's very, very important to look out for her, to understand what the warning signs are, especially because there's so much excellent treatment that's available for children. and we really want them all to have happy and productive lives. paris jackson included. >> the tabloids have noticed another troubling sign. wounds on her wrists that could be explained as self-arming, cutting. although no one can say for sure. >> as upsetting and tragic as these types of incidents are, we would like to use them as an opportunity to educate parents, teens, teachers, counselors about the signs and symptoms of depression. >> paris jackson has had to ensure trials that most teenagers never have to face. >> conrad robert murray guilty. >> including multiple trials over who is to blame for michael jackson's premature

and they also can go to the school because cyberbullying is a huge issue in the high schools. >> it surerlie evers on this historic anniversary. t after this. >>> it has been 50 years since civil rights leader medgar evers was gunned down in front of his mississippi home in jackson. we're marking this historic anniversary with a look at his legacy. we're honored to have his widow, and the former chair of the naacp, the great myrlie evers with us. first, a look back. >> we have a -- on every store on capital street. >> reporter: a native son of mississippi and war veteran, medgar evers was the first naacp field secretary for his home state. a leader in the civil rights movement. evers organized voter demonstration drives. boycotts against businesses. in 1954, his application to the ole miss school of law was denied. but helped pave the way to the school's integration years later. on june 11th, 1963, he was gunned down in front of his home by a white supremacist. believing behind his wife and his three young children. for 30 the years, his death went unpunished, until 1994, when byron dale

. >> reporter: the high school attended by a teenager who committed suicide because of alleged cyberbullying may adopt a new anti-bullying tool that encourages kids to use their smartphones. we'll explain. "mornings on 2" starts right now. >>> good morning. welcome to "mornings on 2." it's wednesday, june 5th. i'm tori campbell. >> good morning, everybody. i'm brian flores. dave clark is off today. >>> breaking news in san francisco, where a leaning tree is causing problems for muni. sal? >> that's right, brian and tori. this tree came down sometime overnight and is precarious hanging on one of the power lines on garfield street in the city's merced heights neighborhood. i want to mention that will the 21 sunset goes -- that the 21 sunset goes right by there. pg&e crews are there with their heavy equipment working on live power lines. they don't want any vehicles to be underneath when when they are doing this. this is the outbound line. if you are going outbound, it will affect you. the outbound is there. you will have to go one more stop to get to the 29. back to you. >> thank you, sal. >>>

how can somebody cyberbully you to the poi of suicide. the way that happens, after i thought about it, is the humiliation and anything -- even if it's not true. there's no way to take that back. and now enstead of being humiliated to yourself and to your fantasy about who else knows about this or who else has heard this, you don't have to fantsoys, you know thousands of people out there have seen this. and that is one of the tox exthings i see in the social media the way it's organized now and the tox exthing about being able to speak your piece on mail and on that media, immediately before you've even had a chance to think about it and the destruction possibilities are very real. >> thank you. >> i have a followup on that same point, google is coming out with -- fwoogle is coming out with their new google tpwhrass, life with subtitelts as they imagine it, with your camera and recorder on and we already have the memory capability now that not only a goog -- not only google takes a picture but google records my every weaking moment and eve

"cyberbullying and harassment are a violation of myspace's terms of use.orce our terms, myspace reviews every image and video that is hosted on the site. to our knowledge, the mentioned video was never hosted on myspace, however, since the alleged assailant had myspace profiles, we are working with the polk county sheriff's department to assist their investigation." perry aftab, executive director of wiredsafety.com, an internet safety group, understands the lure of these sites for some teenagers. >> they live a public life where virtuality is reality, and a lot of them are trying to star on their own reality shows picking up their 15 megabytes of fame. >> she says they sometimes think posting video on the internet makes them popular. >> now the kids rank their popularity based on how many people visited their page. it's page views. it's ratings where people can rate your video. >> but this video won't win these teens any popularity contests. instead they face serious criminal charges. >> they're all charged with felony battery, and they're all charged wit

tell that to the cyberbullied kids who stay home from school because they're traumatized by the taunts they receive anonymous low online, and tell that to tyler clemente, he rutgers student who committed'm suicide because of a tweet that ridiculed him for being gay. that old sticks and stones saying is simply not true. in the world of web sites, twitter, youtube, and facebook. in fact, in the online world, words and pictures and videos and online games are infecting the globe with a virus of hate that is a threat to people, and to society. abe and i wrote "viral hate" because hate-filled, demeaning, degrade, and potentially violence inspying content are not the necessary byproduct of freedom of expression. we believe freedom of expression as important as it is, does not trump human dignity. we wrote our book because we believe people should not sit idly by when we sigh online attacks on people because they're different. the antidefamation league where abe is narl director and i chair the national civility rights committee has a mission to promote justice and fair treatment for all. as

>> well, right now, with this ordinance, we're going after bullying, cyberbullying.e also go after those who retaliate toward those that report these violations. >> and how did you -- how did you come up with this? how long did that take? >> i started working on it, mainly researching it, that took probably about a year and with the help of my police chief, walter estrenga and city attorney william cole, we had to work through this with our city and that lasted about another year, we had special committees on it, and eventually in may, we were able to get this passed. >> what's been the reaction so far there in the town? >> u.s. been really, really good. constantly getting e-mails and phone calls from parent, from people that were wishing they had this when they grew up. in their various cities, and phone calls are not only from around the nation, they are calls from other country as well. wie gotten a lot of support on it. this is a -- a hot-button type ordinance, because of the fact that we're going after the bullies. not just in the school, but city wide. and we a

>> well, at school and some people tried to cyberbully me. >> do you sense people trying to use you?nd my back and they don't think that i can hear them. a lot of times i can hear them and a lot of times my friends tell me what they say. >> reporter: also at home with all that family in-fighting. there were possible signs that something was amiss. a radical change in her hairstyle of late, tabloid speculation about whether she was cutting herself and this strange video posted just days ago. >> i need serious help. i'm crazy. i am crazy. anyways -- >> what happened to paris, boom, it happened overnight. she went from one household and being secluded to a completely different household. >> reporter: being a teenager is tough under any circumstances. we can only imagine, though, how difficult it must be for this girl dealing with a complicated cocktail of grief, fame and family turmoil. for "good morning america," dan harris, abc news, new york. >> i remember meeting paris a couple of years ago when i was in los angeles. she was there with her grandmother and her brothers. they were vol