here's abc's lindsey davis. >> reporter: take a look at what some now say is an offensive costume. >> tonight, megyn kelly's fate hangs in the balance just days after the journalist defended wearing blackface on her morning show. >> what is racist? because truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on halloween r a black person who puts on why is face. back when i was a kid, that was okay as long as you were dressing up as a character. >> reporter: kelly and her panel were discussing costumes like this one, worn by real housewife dressed as diana ross. >> people said that was racist. and i don't know. i felt, like, who doesn't love diana ross? >> reporter: the comment sparked fierce backlash, even inside nbc, with kelly taken to task on air by members of her own network. >> she owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country. because this is a history going back to the 1830s, minstrel shows, to demean and denigrate a race. >> reporter: and according to "variety," nbc news chairman andrew lack condemned those remarks during a staff town hall

here's abc's lindsey davis. >> reporter: when it comes to people accused of everyday racism, the internet no mercy. >> i'm being followed and harassed. that's what's up. two white kids being with one black male. it's suspicious. >> reporter: doling out viral nicknames. >> you can film all you want. >> reporter: intended to brand any perpetrator forever. >> you want to call the police on them for having a barbecue. >> reporter: stephanie arrested for assaulting a black teen at a community pool became pool patrol paula, her attorney later saying there are two sides to every story. and allison eddal who called the police on an 8-year-old girl selling water now known as permit patty. she later said she regrets the way she handled it. and now, just this past tere teresa kline became corner store carolyn. when she accused a 9-year-old boy of groping her at this brooklyn corner store, surveillance video would proven her wrong, clearly showing it was the boy's backpack that accidentally grazed her. but outside the store, she confronted the boy and his family, saying she was calling the police. th

abc's lindsey davis takes us through this st.is showdown. >> this morning a mother is suing over troubling footage showing pre-schoolers taking part in what she calls a toddler fight club. >> reporter: in the 2016 video teachers are seen cheering the young children on. one jumps enthusiastically while the other helps students put on toy fists. one little boy caught on camera tries to break up the fight. >> get out of the way! >> the incident came to light after a 10-year-old boy captured this video on his ipad showing his 4-year-old brother allegedly being forced to fight with another student. >> they are fighting. >> he wouldn't have had his ipad on him that day who knows if we even would have found out about this. >> reporter: the mother's mother immediately reported the incident to the school and to authorities, but while the two teachers seen in the video were fired, the state did not file any criminal charges. >> no one is being held accountable, and if i'm not a voice for my children who will be? now she is suing the day ca