Connecticut trooper who shot Black man after police chase is acquitted of manslaughter
A white Connecticut state police trooper was acquitted of manslaughter Friday in the death of Mubarak Soulemane, a Black community college student with mental illness who was shot as he sat behind the wheel of a stolen car holding a kitchen knife.
Trooper Brian North, 33, could have faced up to 40 years in prison if he had been convicted in the 2020 shooting, which the state's inspector general said should not have happened because officers were not in imminent danger. But the six-person jury acquitted him on that charge and two lesser counts: second-degree manslaughter with a firearm and negligent homicide.
After the verdict was read,
