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>> hi everyone, this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. >> broad day light race in america, preparing black children to face police. why black families say the talk is a matter of life or death. therapy dogs. helping inmates transition pack to life outside. and white earth the oscar nominated documentary. children uprooted by america's

oil boom. an investigation has been launched into the police shooting of a man in front of a dozen witnesses in washington state. the man's death on tuesday has been ruled a homicide. allen schauffler is in pasco washington at the scene of this shooting. allen. >> john, an attorney for the victim's family has notified the city of pasco that a $25 million lawsuit is likely in this case. the attorney general has notified the state that he will likely call for an inquest. first you hear what sounds like fun shots in this cell phone video. then you see antonio montes running from police, turning and being shot down. investigators watched at least

two different videos from the crowded scene and they say they expect to see more. at least 40 witness he are being questioned. a special multidisciplinary task force that does not include pasco police. >> how confident are you that you can conduct an investigation that is unbiased? >> i hope we build trust and put those credits in there in the past. we are the best at investigating deaths. homicides. >> reporter: candles have been lit every night where the victim fell and a major rally is planned for midday saturday. according to police he kept throwing rocks. some as big as soft balls hitting two officers. they say stun guns failed to bring him down then he ran. apart from the rocks police say he was unarmed. felix vargas chairs a community

business group and is working with the victim's family. >> the family is struggling, to say the least. they need the help, they need the collective help of the hispanic community. >> zambarno montes was known to police convicted of assaulting an officer last year. four were convictof assaulting officers three were white. >> it is a stressful time for anybody that wears a badge and it was a stressful time based on the national events that have been occurring over the last year. it brings it closer to home for us. >> the police and the victim's family say they don't want to see a ferguson like explosion here. both are asking for calm.

the coroner has ruled this death a homicide and if an inquest happens it would happen after this special investigation unit has taken their evidence. >> allen schauffler, pasco washington, thank you. retired lieutenant darren porcher. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> give me the sense of what you saw go on in the video and can you draw any conclusions? >> from what i see the video hasn't been fully assessed in terms of its authenticityity. authenticity. it is troubling. this individual in no way shay ship or form proved himself to be a threat in terms of the public or officers in which they need to take a shot.

>> how similar to this? >> in my years working in the nypd i was always trained to maintain a zone of safety, maintained that zone of safety and try to talk to this individual as much as possible. >> keep your distance. what about using deadly force? >> as a last resort. as a last resort. i believe initially a taser was used however it was unsuccessful. however once again we want to maintain a zone of safety. if you look here, the individuals chased this individual and shot him. >> you got anumber of police officers on the scene. >> right. >> what about communication between each other? >> communication is imperative in situations like this. the officers, i saw a breakdown in communication, more than anything else. the officers should have taken a step back regressed and contained the individual in the particular location by voice command, sir we need you to stop moving, et cetera. if he continues moving fine, it's okay but the officers

should continue to move and maintain that perimeter. >> i.t. seems nowadays -- it seems nowadays that we see videos like this every week almost. police are videotaping or a bystander is videotaping. is that a good thing? does that help police? does that help everyone in this process be safer be better or what? >> with the wave of innovation with new technology everyone has a camera phone. these camera phones these videos are here to stay. i think the only help believe it or not they help police because these can be used as -- these videos can be used as valuable training tools to assist officers in bettering the training and capabilities in the street. >> in future police will wear these videos in other places. dr. porcher thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me.

now facing assault charges shareshibai patel did not speak english was visiting his son. the confrontation left him partially paralyzed. police tried to cover up the incident. >> he did not pull his hands in his pockets. he did not pull away. the videos show those claims made by police on monday were false. they released -- they put out a press release that was intended to cover up this incident. >> the police chief in madison alabama says officer eric parker will be fired. patel is said to be improving. the fbi is investigating. president obama today called the killing of three muslim students in north carolina brutal and

outrageous murders. chapel hill police say a neighbor craig hicks killed the victim in a dispute ore parking spaces. the fbi is looking into whether it was a hate crime. no one in the united states circulate ever be targeted because of who they are what they look like or how they worship. according to court documents the accused killer had at least 12 firearms in his home and olarge cachea largecache of weapons. an attack on a mosque occurred just before friday prearlings investigatorsprayers, investigators are looking into whether it is arson. in special report, race, the talk. parents teaching their kids how to interact with law enforcement. as lisa stark reports the aclu

is offering advice to teen agesser in washington d.c. >> i want to you repeat after me. officer am i free to go? one more time, officer. >> officer. >> am i free to go? >> am i free to go? >> this is not your typical lesson but a critical life lesson. aclu educates teens on what to do if stopped by police. >> you want to sort of let the situation play out. that's the first rule, don't run. if you run or flee from the police what are they going to do? erring this going to be just like okay? they're going to come after you right? >> reporter: in the wake of the deaths of michael brown and eric garner both at the hands of police a conversation that's been under way for years in african mairch american families have

taken off added urgency. >> everyone seems like they're cascade of the police. you don't have a good thought like he's here to make sure i'm okay. >> worry about his 16-year-old son. 16 years ago father and son had the talk what to do if ashaun was stopped by police. >> keep my hands in plain sight. and -- >> and don't make sudden movements. >> don't make sudden movements. >> he has told his son who looks older than 16 who has been stopped, to stay calm, look the officer in the eye don't give him a hard time. >> i don't want my son to get hurt or shot or injured by the police. i should be concerned. >> my father he can't hold my hand. i got to grow up like every other teenager. he can't hold my hand. i still got to know how to carry

myself when i'm out there too. >> back in the classroom ashaun shared some of his father's advice. when neighborhood police officers questioned him on the street. >> i remember my father telling me that they don't have the right to search us so i told them no. >> that's your constitutional right according to sanan nundon. without probable cause police can't search you. >> this is a hard one a very difficult one. repeat after me, officer do i not consent to any searches -- i do not consent to any searches. >> asked the officers, why am i being stopped? i want to remain silent, am i under arrest? some students protest not arguing with the police isn't always easy. >> they think it's just a black kid. >> in washington d.c the population is about 50% black.

but according to the washington lawyers committee african americans make up 80% of those arrested. and most of these arrests are for nonviolent offenses. the d.c. police department declined our request to talk about police stops. but in a statement they told us they believe the aclu lessons are valuable, because quote very little education is provided on how the public should interact with police officers. so we went to thomas carr a former maryland state trooper who now runs an anti-drug program to try out the aclu's advice. >> if you're stopping me and i say officer do i have the right to go? >> what would i say yes you do but wait a minute, let me just ask you a few questions. >> sir i don't want to answer anything. >> all right, wait a minute legality me find out what's wrong, can you help me with that. >> officer do i have the right to go?

>> yes you do. >> the most important when stopped by police, be respectful. >> we give them concrete ideas to focus on that they're going to get in and out of these situations as safely and quickly as possible. >> the hope is that with this simple advice, teens can protect their safety. and hopefully their lives. >> solomon jones junior had this very same talk with his son solomon jones iii. they join us tonight gentlemen welcome. >> thank you. >> hi. >> what did you tell your ten-year-old? >> i told him very simply that he is to make sure of his tone and make sure that he gets home, that he does -- that he acts in a way that we've always told him to act in a way that's

respectful, in a way that's mannerrable and in a way that i think deescalates what the situation happens to be. >> at ten years old why did you think it's important that you have this conversation? >> well you know, as you alluded to i'm a journalist and i'm a talk show host. my son hears my show. he hears me talk about what happened in ferguson, what happened with michael brown what happened with akai girly. these are young black men and young black men are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than young white men. i don't think he's too young to understand that there is danger looming as he gets older. there's opportunity too. but i want to talk with him and let him know and contextualize that for him even now so that thought is within him now. >> young solomon when your dad

told you this what was your reaction? >> i didn't have a reaction. i knew it was going to happen so i just listened to him. >> so dad how does this compare, how do you think this time compares to when you were growing up and conversations you might have had with your parents? >> i didn't -- you know, i never really had a talk with my parents about the police. but then again, you know, their was no urgency to that at the time when i was growing up. you know you didn't have people shot dead by police unarmed. you didn't have people, you know, constantly you didn't hear this constantly in the news. this is not to say that it wasn't happening but it wasn't something that we were constantly hearing about. and at this point because there is social media and because we can constantly hear about these things on television and the news i knew that my son was hearing these things and i felt

it was important for me to talk to him about it. so the difference is, not that it's not happening or wasn't happening before. the difference is that now we know about it. >> and you've got two daughters too. did you talk to them about this? >> no i didn't. i talked to my children about all kinds of things. my oldest is 22. she lives in florida now. we're still in philadelphia. but i -- i never felt like they were in the kind of danger that we are in as black men. >> these conversations are obviously conversations that white americans don't have to have with their children. when do you have these conversations about race, about the color -- about the color of your skin and how it might affect you when you go out down the street to the store in your dealings with people every day and how do you broach that?

>> you know, i think sometimes you know, in the privacy of our homes, i think african americans talk very frankly about race. and we talk with each other about that. i talk around my children about it. i try to teach them that you treat everybody as an individual. but i think they also know that there are going to be people who don't like them because they are black. and so you know, that's their problem. but i don't want them to be shocked by that. it's something that's not real and something that's not still happening. >> solomon jones junior and solomon jones iii. it's a pleasure to have you on the program. you have a beautiful son. we wish you the best. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> black in a white city. seattle is the country's fifth whitest major city and the african american population

there is shrinking. angelique and benjamin okiki recently moved there with their family. >> when you go to a place and you see no one who looks like you and you actually have to do research to figure out where folks like you are realize they're scattered around, what's kind of a unifying event? >> can you see that story tomorrow night in our special report on race in america. it against at 7:30 eastern time. former running back ray rice is asking baltimore for foregiveness. the former ravens star asked fans for their support. video surfaced of him punching then fiancee in a hotel elevator. today rice wrote, there is no excuse for domestic violence and i apologize for the horrible mistake i made. i hope you can find it in your

heart to forgive me and making a difference in the lives of people by raising awareness of this issue. millions of americans are feeling the chill tonight. some of the coldest temperatures in two decades across the northeast. and more snow is on the way. you see the cold weather there and there it is in laguna beach california. warm beautiful sunshine, 75°. meteorologist niblg nicole mitchell is here in the studio. much better in new york. >> it definitely is. many of the temperatures made it past the single digits, 20 or 30 below with the wind chill that has abated as the winds have called down. now there is a reinforcing shot of cold air 20 or 30° below average, high winds as well. so tomorrow morning it's the wind chill day again and the

east coast another really chilly day on sunday. the system doesn't look like it has a lot of snow with it. maybe two to four inches. it's when it hits the coastline intensifying along the way cranking in those winds drawing in more of that cold air but also picking up the moisture that it starts to cause more problems. so for coastal areas especially massachusetts northward where we've gotten hammered system after system, wind, wind chills, winter weather especially that coastline area, blizzard warnings are in effect. some systems could get one to two feet of snow and 50 miles an hour gusting at times. the cold air is going to remain sunk in place. you're mentioning california, 20 degrees above average. back to you. >> a sluggish economy has

brought to the plains thanks to the north dakota oil boom. it's the subjects of the oscar nominated documentary white earth. we talked with the maker of that film in tonight's friday arts piece. >> white earth is about the oil boom in north dakota. but it's told from the perspective of several children and an immigrant mother through voices that you would not really expect to hear from when learning about an oil boom. >> he works for an oil rig. he doesn't come home every night like he used to. he stays there for 20 days and then only gets ten days off. >> first layered about the oil boom in north dakota through my father and hundreds of people were leaving. all going towards north dakota. in order to seek work in the oil fields. and so i thought that was really compelling and i wanted to know what was bringing these people there and what were their lives like. and so the film is really about

exploring the many costs of the american dream. >> my dad doesn't mind me being here by myself as long as i answer the phone. he calls me about six or seven maybe ten times a day. i love you son i'll talk to you later. i just wanted to check on you. >> the film is really about a loss of innocence. and that through the children i could actually get maybe even a more truthful look at what was happening there. i think one of the things that most surprised me was just how resilient they are. they were experiencing very tough, dramatic changes in their lives. but every single child in the film no matter how dire their situation seems, every one of those children has come out a good way. the film was definitely a challenge to shoot. i face the same challenges that most of the other workers in

north dakota were facing. i had incorporate to sleep. it was in the dead of winter. temperatures were well below zero. and pretty brutal. ultimately my film is about empathy. i always want through my work, the audience to feel a sense of empathy for someone who might be different from them. i would hope that the film would resonate from people at all ends of the political spectrum. the film is not an activist film. i'm not trying to convince anyone whether or not the oil boom is a good thing or a bad thing. i think it's a very complex issue and i would like people to see it as such. >> and you can see the film at whiteearthmovie.com. also our look at the film makers behind the oscar nominated series, you'll see my conversation with glen greenwald, the subjects of the

film citizen 4. plus. >> it was a lot deeper than what any of us expected. >> dogs, on the inside. how convicts and canines are rescuing each other. ach other.

>> stefdz is here with steches is here stephanie sy is here with a story next hour.

>> the fighting last taken its toll and now more than ever the syrian government is relying on the support of militias to defend the capital but these militias are not made up of syrian. recruited from iraq, afghanistan and lebanon and on the front lines right now trying to hold back the rebel attack on a city named duma. the critical battle for duma, coming up. >> our new program at 9 eastern time. stephanie, thank you so much. a second chance, now a program is giving one to stray dogs and convicts. the subject of the films dogs on the inside and we take a look at tonight's first person report. >> dogs on the inside is a documentary report that follows the loving relationships that form at a massachusetts prison.

don't throw us away and that program paired abandoned or abused stray dogs with minimum security inmates that were close to being released back into society. >> in some instances like me and sam i could relate to him because sam was left behind. you know, and i went through that as a kid myself. so i know. you know what i mean? >> it was first presented to us as training them, and getting them adopted. it was a lot deeper than what any of us expected. it made me realize that there's a lot more to life than first off than being in prison. but it also inspired me to want to change. we really saw a transformation in the inmates both individually

and as a group. the dogs, were sympathetic and empathized. the story to tell both abandoned dogs and prison inmates, this is a way to give them a voice. >> i went through depression and anxiety, and when the dog program finally came many it was exciting. i used to tell him what i went through, and he used to tell me just how he felt by his reaction. if they had this kind of program in every institution they would definitely see the change in people. >> but i'd like to see people say oh my gosh in the most unlikely place a prison, dogs are finding safe haven from men we typically stereotype and want to cast away. >> i would say you know i don't miss prison but i miss the dogs.

i miss them very much. >> you can find that film on itunes. that's our program. thanks for watching. i'm john siegenthaler. have a great weekend. weekend.

another twist in the political mystery playing out in argentina. a new prosecutor picks up where the last one left off. accusing president christina kirchner of a cover up to protect iran in the bombing attack on a jewish center. a key to ending the war the violence escalates and easing tensions the syrian president bashar al-assad needs to be part of the solution. a fragile campaign in ukraine in