Cops hold courthouse rally for state trooper arraigned in killing of alleged teen carjacker

A white Connecticut state trooper made his first court appearance Monday after being charged with manslaughter in the 2020 killing of an alleged carjacker.

Dozens of police officers from multiple states held a rally outside a Connecticut courthouse Tuesday as a white state trooper they contend was charged with manslaughter for doing his job was arraigned in the 2020 killing of a Black 19-year-old alleged carjacker.

Connecticut State Trooper Brian North, 31, appeared at a brief hearing in Superior Court in Milford, but did not enter a plea to a felony manslaughter charge stemming from the fatal shooting of Mubarak Soulemane.

North, who is free on $50,000 bail, did not speak at the hearing and a judge scheduled his next court date for June 2.

Soulemane's mother, Omo Klusum Mohammed, attended the hearing and later said she and her family would not be intimidated from pursuing justice.