The United States has dealt with numerous cases that have involved racial discrimination. From smaller, local cases to ones that defined America with the simple fitting of a glove, the court system is constantly placed in situations in which racial identities play a major factor.

Questions such as what public schools can a person attend, who can someone marry, who has the right to use the courts and how can education be equal for everybody, among plenty of others, have been placed under the law of the court.

For instance, the Dred Scott v. Sandford case in 1857, in which the Court ruled that slaves were not entitled to their freedom even if they had resided in a free state; and that African-Americans, either free or slaved, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court citizenship for black people.

Or the Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case in 1971, that established the busing of students as a remedial technique to promote integration and balance race in public schools.

The same things that are happening across the country are occurring right in our own state— it is no different.

On Jan. 15, Mubarak Soulemane, 19, was shot seven times by State Trooper Brian North for carjacking white Hyundai in Norwalk, according to the police report.

It is stated Soulemane was armed with a knife when he was surrounded in New Haven after a high-speed car chase; shots were later fired after the vehicle crashed. Reports show North was the only officer to fire his gun during the incident.

It was later reported, Soulemane died at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

North is currently on administrative assignment as the conclusion of the investigation is pending, according to the New Haven Register.

Based on the body camera footage, Soulemane was in no shape or form a threat to the handful of officers that were surrounding him in his car. Even if Soulemane was a potential threat, the number of shots fired by the state trooper were simply unnecessary.

Along with that, with the officer under investigation is still employed after this incident and the fact that the media is covering this as just another case are both problems for Connecticut, the country and even the whole world.

America has dealt with race problems since the first time someone stepped on its land and has never gotten over it. The question now is, for everybody’s sake, will we ever see this end?