Killed Teen’s Supporters Call Trooper’s Arrest An Example For Nation

While the death of Mubarak Soulemane is a terrible tragedy, and he is legally innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, he is not innocent in terms of his actions during this terrible day in his life that led up up his unessessary death. This does not justify his murder, but to state that he was innocent is to ignore that his actions were illegal and to disregard that it was traumatic to others that he threatened with his actions.
I am glad that this arrest and soon to be trial of the officer will bring greater scrutiny of police tactics and hopefully changes in how policing is done in the future, and a retraining of police and a rethinking of how to best handle people struggling with altered mental states such as mental illness episodes or under the influence of substances.
We need to have deep and difficult conversations about policing tactics and training and mindset of the job of policing.
We also need to have deep and difficult conversations about mental health and the access to care and medications compliance and weigh patient’s civil rights versus patient and public health and safety, and how the closing of mental hospitals and lack of adequate treatment and support systems resulted in the increase of incarceration for mental health sufferers, for substance abusers, and the increase of the homelessness with persons with those issues, instead of compassionate treatment and professional care and supportive housing.
Society has a lot of work to do in reimagining how these concerns interact for the health and safety of everyone involved.

So you rob a woman at knifepoint and steal her car, lead police on a multi city chase putting the general public in jeapordy then don’t comply when you’re told to relinquish the knife and surrender liege fly make a threatening move toward police causing them to use force and it’s the police’s that’s at fault? Actions have consequences and this gentleman’s actions are the cause of his demise not the police. I find it hard to believe a jury will convict this cop without reasonable doubt.

For anyone who is happy that Trooper Brian North has been arrested, please take some time to read through the entire 133 page report from our state's Inspector General.

Reading all of it might seem a bit laborious, but if you do so, you might come to the same conclusion that I have. Mubarak Soulemane threatened the lives of others in several ways.

First, he brandished a knife inside a cell phone shop.

Then, he threatened a Lyft driver.

Then, he stole that Lyft driver's car.

Then, he endangered numerous people on the road by trying to evade a pursuit by police. (yes, he crashed into other cars)

And finally, when he was stopped, he pulled a knife on the cops.

It's easy to spend several hours, days, weeks, or even years retrospectively analyzing everything that happened, but when you're a cop, you have only seconds to make decisions.

Who's ready to own this false statistic from the article that is attributed to Attorney Rubenstein and Mr. Soulemane's family?:
"Since March 31, 2022, U.S law enforcement officers shot and killed 241 people."
This seems to originate from statista.com, which reports that:
"As of March 31, 2022, the U.S police officers shot 241 people to death in 2022."
Significant difference between SINCE and AS OF. Don't believe me, do the math.
So, did Attorney Rubenstein and Mr. Soulemane's family actually say that or has the Independent staff misquoted/misinterpreted what the attorney and family said?
This is not a commentary on shooting deaths by police, but rather a questioning of the statistical claim by the attorney and family that, if left unchallenged, could only inflame the public's perception of police conduct.