allen schauffler went to vancouver to see the programme and joins us from seattle. alan, this is the first time this has been tried in north america, how is it working? >> well how is it working depend as it does in so many cases on who you ask the the people involved in the programme at the clinic we visited, people prescribing and doing the heroin is say it's fine. canada's health minister called it feeding addiction under the guise of treatment. this is about a programme this specifically targets a small personnel of the most severely addicted intravenous drug users. >> reporter: this is hasting street downtown eastside vancouver, notorious for street drugs and violence. >> 4 in the morning a guy hit me over the head. >> reporter: our tour guide that nose the back allies is given thompson, an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 intravenous drug user. kevin nose where he's getting his nest fit - not on the street but here at a government-funded clinic. where he goes for free top-quality heroin prescribed by a doctor. we went with kevin for the son of three daily injections.

allen schauffler joins us from pasco, washington. llen. >> we are out in front of vinnie's cafe and bakery in pasco. where people have been coming every night to stage silent peaceful protests. we have seen people honk when they go by and some i am antonio tee shirts. this was a shooting seen by a lot of people, caught on video and widely share on social media. first you hear what appear to be gun shots in this cell phone video then you see antonio montes being shot down. they see at least two cell phone videos and they expect to see more. a special multiagency task force athat dot does not include pasco police. >> how confident are you to conduct an investigation that will be unbiased? >> we are the best at investigating deaths. homicides. >> candles have been lit every night where the victim fell and a major rally is planned for midday saturday. officers were drawn to the scene by reports of zambrano montes throwing rocks at cars. some hitting officers. they say stun guns failed to bring him down then he ran. apart from rocks he was

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

allen schauffler. thank you. back to the east coast - new england faced warnings cities across the north-east are trying to clear away snow before more arrives. forecasters predict more than a foot of fresh snow. 70 miles per hour and coastal flooding. officials are warning people about the possible dangers. >> i can't say this enough. unless you have good reason to be out tomorrow we urge you to stay off the road. so the police can do the work they have been doing. for us to plough the roads, remove and dispose of snow from previous storms. >> we are told temperatures may drop below zero. saturday night will be a bad time. we don't want people getting stuck. that's when bad things happen. >> it will be bad. the historic snow falls are expensive, costing state and local governments millions. >> coming up on al jazeera america - the shaky ceasefire in ukraine. we take a deeper look into how world leaders are seeking out a peaceful look into the violence. >> as cars become more computerized and connected to the int

i'm going to try my hardest not to make it go down that path. >> allen schauffler, al jazeera pasco. >> joining me, is it race is it training? >> we look at it as strange. we don't see this as a racial problem. we see this as a lack of proper police training. >> now, there have been other shootings as has been mentioned four in the past seven months and one of the fatalities was the son of a police officer. tell me about that one. >> yeah. well the police officer's son was shot by the police in a confrontation coming out of his house. the son was struggling with mental issues just like mr. zambrano montez and police were aware he was suffering some mental problems and that he was in a moment of crisis the night they shot him. we see the similarities there. the police are not trained to recognize someone who is in distress especially from a mental side. and so they don't know how to really deal with them. that goes back to the basic problem we really said. the police force in pasco is not being trained properly to recognize problems and deal with them in the proper manner. >> the poli

allen schauffler looks at the case sparking outrage. >> reporter: in seattle golf-club carrying protesters called for reform all because of this. last july 9th, a police officer confronts him, saying he threatened her with a golf club. >> can you put that down please? >> what? >> i thought she was looking for a shoplifter. that's what i thought. >> 22 sometimes the officer arrived win gait to drop the golf club. five times she accuses him of threatening her. . >> nowhere in the dash cam video released by police is winn gate shown swinging the club. the air force veteran and retired bus driver who said he never had a problem with police is hauled off to gaol to face harassment and obstruction charges. the putter locally defined as a weapon and confiscated. >> you have your hand behind your back. >> former washington state representative don mason heard about the arrest. >> if this had been a white man this age doing what mr winn gateways doing, the officer would never have stopped or noticed him. quietly, mason went to work on winn gate's behalf with a racially mixed team hoping to clear hi

allen schauffler caught up with a subject. >> you may recognise strangers, the faces before and after proof of the damage drugs can do. the pictures were printed in oregon and used in tv documentaries. this is one of the faces of meth. >> methamphetamine is ipp siddious. i watched it completely destroy lives. i mean entire families. >> i watched with legg rue under the bridge an area he haunted for decades. years lost to drugs and crime. >> i'll always be an addict you know but i don't have to be an active addict. >> he is clean now, not in gaol not on parole and not on meth more the first time in his adult life. recovery taught me to be a different person how to live a different life. >> what did you think the first time you saw your face in the paper? >> i was ashamed. i was ashamed. i was mad. >> reporter: he says he was turned down for jobs thrown out of bars because the pictures and believes of the faces of meth used in local high school drug awareness classes helped to deepen his addiction. >> i gave up. >> most life people that grew up too soon. >> a look back at the newspapers

allen schauffler reports. >> reporter: they are the admitted concerned, faithful. c.p.a.c. the conservative political action committee is one of the important vest. >> men and women will play a role. >> reporter: it's an important stop for those wanting to nominate. >> it's an important voice for republicans, not the majority, but a substantial segment of the republican party and the most passionate segment of the republican party. it's important to appeal to c.p.a.c. to furnish republican credentials. >> the republican presidential hopefuls, this means you can lose nom nation - a for speech a failure to connect to the audience. it could derail a campaign. this is a predominantly white middle class gathering. a gay republican group was turned away. they need to connect with african american hispanics and women, leaving a lot of work to do to attract new voters. >> they said that they'd go with the values letting people know what the message is and the conservative fiscal message, and social message. >> jed bush is one of the biggest names. he doesn't always appeal to the co

what are police saying allen schauffler? >> police are saying for one thing, that they will not say much more. they said the press briefing they gave today is the last to be given by the socialist investigation unit looking into the shooting. they kontdon't want to take the jury pool for the briefing. they did say that antonio was hit five or six times, that he was not shot in the back. 17 were shot by three officers and all three involved and pictured in the video did fire their weapons. as the city tries to handle all the process, everything that happened there's another state on the minds of many people, and that is ferguson missouri. >> reporter: they have been here every day for two weeks. a small stubborn protest group. eddy and his wife cancelled vacation plans to join the voices outside city hall. >> they did not just kill him, they killed a little bit of everyone. two weeks ago police found a distraught antonio. he ran, was shot at and ran again. when he turned three officers fired. the killing sparked outrage and a

allen shawferl traveled schauffler reports from british columbia. >> kevin thompson one of the city's five to 8,000 intravenous drug users. he also knows where he's getting his next fix. not on the streets but from this clinic where he does a high quality heroin injection. methadone never worked for him and repeated rehab tries failed. >> i'm looking for a vein. when you do it, it's a big warm hug, out of bed your mortgage hugs you squeezes you and really tight. >> reporter: the patients here are considered so severely addicted giving them the drug they crave is the best and cheapest way to protect them and those around them. >> getting the free heroin, you know, it's even better. want me smashing your car or robbing, hurting you or something glrm similar programs have been run in europe for years and many studies show keeping people like kevin on an even keel not chasing discreet drugschasing streetdrugs may pay off. not everybody sees the benefit. jim o'roarke runs vision society, abstinence based rehab for severely addicted criminals. >> is that a way to deal with them? >> bye-bye,

allen schauffler joins us live now. allen?> reporter: well, tony this is the first trip ever for his mother to the united states and sadly, it is a trip to receive the body of her son -- or retrieve the body of her son, rather. she tells us she hadn't seen antonio in about ten years, and she says she was stunned, believing when she first watched the video of the shooting. the funeral was held here yesterday. his mother in attendance making the long trip from the small town in mexico. she says she does want justice, and wants to see punishment for the three police officers involved. >> translator: they need to pay with jail time. i don't wish for them to be killed, because they have mothers too. i don't want them to suffer the way i'm suffering now. because only mothers know how much this hurts. they need to pay with jail time. >> reporter: we'll have more of our conversation with his mother in the next news hour. one of the family's lawyers is releasing partial results of a second autopsy. they are results that he claims contr

allen schauffler explains. >> reporter: they are the committed, the concerns the faithful, cpac is onemost important republican gatherings of the year. >> the men and women gathered here today will play a critical role. >> cpac is a very important voice for republicans. it may not be a majority of republicans. but it is a very substantial segment of the republican party, and it is the most passionate segment of the republican party, so it's important to appeal to cpac to burnish your republican conservative credentials. >> for presidential hopefuls this meeting won't mean your secure of the no, ma'am makes, but it can mean you could lose it. a poor speech failure to connect with the audience here could derail a campaign. what this is a predominantly white middle class republican gathering. a party that needs to connect with african-americans, hispanic, and women, it leaves them a lot of work to do. >> they were saying they were going to go with the values and, you know, letting people know what their message is and their conservative fiscal message, and social message as well. >> repor