hardee has to deal with that. he leaves the plantation and this young man has been born and raised, and that's the only thing he knows. life on that plantation. his father is there, his father has lost part of his legs to one of the dogs. that is a whole story in itself. the father is terrified of leaving because the father thinks, once the army has gone all the people will come back. we better go back to work in the field. franklin says no. he has seen one is happening, he walks off, lisa's father, and follows the army. -- he walks off, leaves his father, and follows the army. franklin is an interesting character because he is ultimately ignorant. he can barely read. think about what they taught slaves, they taught them how to read the bible. they wanted them to be good christians. the preachers would, and teach them how to read the bible. that's how he learned how to read. he can count to 100, he can add, he can do subtraction. now he is out in the street, in the road, surrounded by a sea of black faces and he r

hardee is sitting up in charleston. look at a map, you go out of savannah, what is the logical place to hit next? it's charleston. sherman fakes them out again. if you know your geography, what is in the middle of south carolina? columbia, the state capital. that is the most controversial thing that sherman is involved with. not that sherman did, what sherman is involved with. columbia burned. way worse than atlanta. it is a mess. columbia burned because of cotton. i am going to get grief from this, i know. actually on this tour, i am not going to columbia, south carolina. that was not a conscious decision. it's just that the publisher arranges my tours, i wanted to go to columbia but -- [laughter] in colombia, there are people who are still angry because sherman burned colombia. no, he really didn't. the fire was actually started by confederate cavalry under wade hampton because they did not want the cotton to fall into the hands of the union soldiers. as sherman rising, there is a storm brewing. the winds are whipping

. >> reporter: paul and angie hammond's 19-year-old son zachary was shot to death in his car in a hardees parking lot in south carolina where police were running a drug sting. >> our kids are getting killed. sure, you know, they make mistakes, but you can't just kill them for it. >> reporter: tonight the u.s. department of justice is investigating. >> i would like to see the officer charged with murder. >> reporter: lawyers for officer mark tiller say he felt threatened when they claim that hammond tried to crash into the officer with his car. if not for his quick reflexes and his ability to push off the car, they write, lieutenant tiller would have easily been run over by mr. hammond. but an autopsy commissioned by the family shows that the 19-year-old's gunshot wounds entered the back of his shoulder and his side, and they ask police to explain that. they said us they break down when they see news reports of young people killed by police like christian taylor in texas. >> we cried when we saw it on the news. our trust is shaken right now. >> these shootings have got to stop. >> reporter

when they pull into a hardee's parking lot, police are waiting. according to the police report, hammond, who was driving, attempted to strike an officer with his vehicle during the attempted arrest. he was shot twice and dies at the scene. >> it is a horrible situation. you get put in a predicament that when you sign up to be a police officer there is that potential that you might have to use deadly force. >> the seneca police chief says his officer is a victim too. >> a victim of attempted murder. >> i have a hard time believing it when my son is no longer here, that he is the victim. >> the hammonds say police have not given them answers. they went looking for their own. an independent autopsy they conducted shows their son was shot from behind and at close range. the family attorney says the results are that the car was stopped at the time of the shooting. >> it has been very hard. not only are we grieving that our son is gone. we don't know why it happened. we don't know why or what happened. we are just trying to find answers. >> lieutenant m

when they pull into a hardee's parking lot, police are waiting.ice report hammond attempted to strike the officer during an attempted arrest. he shot twice and dies at the scene. >> it's a horrible situation. you get put into something that you know when you sign up to be a police officer, that the potential is there to during the career that you may have use deadly force. >> his officer is a victim too. >> a victim of attempted murder. that's what the police chief says. >> i have a hard time believing it when my son is no longer here. >> that he is the victim. >> police have not given them answers, so they went looking for their own. an autopsy conducted that their son was shot from behind and at close range. the family attorney say that is the car was stopped at the time of the shooting. >> it's been very hard. not only are we grieve thag the son is gone we don't know why it happened or what happened. we're just trying to find answers. >> lieutenant mark till lardard is a ten year veteran. in order to stop the continuing threat to himself and th

when they pull into a hardee's restaurant, police are there. strike an officer with his vehicle. he shot twice. he dies at the scene. >> it's a horrible situation. you get put into a predictment, you know the potential is there. >> his officer is a victim too. >> a victim of attempted murder. that's what the police chief said. >> i have a hard time believing it when my son is no longer here. >> that he's the victim. >> the hammonds say police have not given them answers so they went looking for their own. an independent autopsy shows their son was shot from behind and at close range. the family attorneys adds the results show the car was stopped at the time of the shooting. >> it's been very hard. not only are we grieving that our son is gone, we don't know why it happened or what happened. and we're just trying to find answers. >> lieutenant mark tiller, the officer involved in the shooting it a ten-year veteran and has no trouble of getting in trouble. in a staple, tiller's attorney put the blame on hammond. two shots were fired by lieutenant

when they pull into a hardee's parking lot, police are waiting.ding to police report, hammond, who was driving, attempt today strike an officer with his vehicle during the attempted arrest. he shot twice. he dies at the scene. >> it's a hooshl situation. i mean, you get put in a predicament. you know sometimes when you sign up to be a police officer you know in your career you might have to use deadly force. >> reporter: the seneca police chief says his officer is a victim, too. >> a victim of attempted murder. >> i have a hard time believing it when my son is no longer here. >> that he's the victim. is there the hammonds say police have fought given them answers. so they went looking for their own, an independent autopsy they conducted shows their son was shot from behind and at close range. the family attorney adds the results show the car was stopped at the time of the shooting. >> it's been very hard. not only are we grieving that our son is gone, we don't know why it happened or what happened. we're just trying to fine answers. >> leiutenant

. >> we have crews from the scene in hardee, virginia, to the chase on i-66 to the hospital at innova begin with northern virginia reporter david culver live on the scene. david? >> reporter: jim and wendy, as we were making our drive down here, i started reaching out to some of the reporters, given that we all work closely together. so i reached out to some of the others who work in this community. as soon as we got here, you could tell there was this true sense of loss, this unsettled feeling amongst everybody who was standing by for a press conference, rather silent and solemn. and you could see several hours after this tragedy unfolded behind me, this is the scene where it happened and it's still very active. deputies down here, they have it all blocked off. it started out, was supposed to be a light-hearted feature story and it quickly became a deadly tragedy that played out on live tv. gathered from around the nation, franklin county sheriff bill overtop said he was one of those watching wdvj 7's live broadcast this morning. >> it has really stopped me in my tracks this morning.

. >> reporter: paul and angie hammond's 19-year-old son zachary was shot to death in his car in a hardeesice were running a drug sting. >> our kids are getting killed. sure, you know, they make mistakes, but you can't just kill them for it. >> reporter: the u.s. department of justice is investigating. >> i would like to see the officer charged with murder. >> reporter: lawyers for officer mark tiller say he felt threatened when they claim that hammond tried to crash into the officer with his car. if not for his quick reflexes and his ability to push off the car, they write, lieutenant tiller would have easily been run over by mr. hammond. but an autopsy commissioned by the family shows that the 19-year-old's gunshot wounds entered the back of his shoulder and his side, and they ask police to explain that. they tell us they break down when they see news reports of young people killed by police like christian taylor in texas. >> we cried when we saw it on the news. our trust is shaken right now. >> these shootings have got to stop. >> reporter: in south carolina authorities report they're u

. >> reporter: he was shot to death during a drug sting in a hardee's parking lot. >> we set off a perimeter. >> reporter: police are blaming the unarmed young man saying he tried to run the police officer over with his car. attorneys for the police officer saying in a statement, if not for his quick reflexes and his ability to push off of the car, the officer would have been run over by mr. hammond. an autopsy said that the 19-year-old's wounds entered the back not the front. >> he murdered his son. >> i don't understand. it doesn't matter whether he was doing something just really bad. you don't shoot people the way he shot my son. >> reporter: if there's dash cam video they would like it released. police aren't commenting. . family tells us that we in this country take a close look at the use of police force against young people. robin. >> all right, steve, thank you. >>> now to a death at a popular ohio amusement park, a man hit and killed by a roller-coaster after he entered a restricted area to look for lost belongings. >> reporter: that was a decision that cost him a life. at one of a

. >> reporter: he was shot to death during a drug sting in a hardee's parking lot.he bullets missing his passenger. >> we set up a perimeter. one of our officers involved in a shooting. >> reporter: police are blaming the unarmed young man saying he tried to run the police officer over with his car. calling it attempted murder in this police report. attorneys for the police officer saying in a statement, if not for his quick reflexes and his ability to push off of the car, the officer would have been run over by mr. hammond. but an autopsy commissioned by the family shows that the 19-year-old's gunshot wounds entered the back of his shoulder and his side, not the front of his body. >> he murdered our son. >> he murdered our son. i don't understand. it doesn't matter whether he was doing something just really bad. you don't shoot people the way he shot my son. >> reporter: they believe the police may have dash cam video and if so, they would like it released. police aren't commenting. family tells us that we in this country take a close look at the use of police forc

. >> where is there a hardee's in new york city? >> there isn't one.e, now that they are doing it, does this create another meal opportunity for them? does it create a late night demographic that could boost sales as opposed to something that shifts the cost around? >> that's the hope. >> a lot of analysts are optimistic on the move. the other thing is mpd, a data firm on consumer behavior put out a survey on the battle for lunch. some of these fast casual retailers are coming up on the fast food. battle for lunch is over the burger, not for breakfast. that will be interesting to see what happens to the price of your burger as these categories merge. >> the pizza category is beating everybody else on the technology side of things. when you look at the performance of the stocks, we talk about shake shack and other names. >> because delivery? >> yes. part is delivery, but makes it easier to go online. there are tablets at the table. you can punch in things and order. millennials who don't like to talk to anybody, it's much easier to type into a computer.

according to his family, he was in his car on a first date at a hardee's restaurant and fatally shot marijuana of the woman he was with was an undercover police officer. they said he drove his car toward an officer also on the scene and who police say fired his gun in self defense. the county coroner in a statement to our local affiliate said he was struck twice with wounds to the chest and co collarbone. they say it suggests it was shot from the front of the family. the family said the autopsy says it was from the side proving that the officer was never in any danger because the car was not aimed at the officer. the county prosecutor has pushed back at the significance of the independent autopsy telling the local nbc affiliate it is consistent with the assessment this hammond shot twice in the upper torso. nbc news reached out to the police for comment. they have just released a batch of documents including a police report that does not mention a shooting. now, the police also say there will be another document batch to be released next week including the name of the officer involve