Pushback? BLM murderer of retired black St. Louis police captain found guilty
David Dorn: Some justice at last
Two years after the BLM riots of 2020, the murderer of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn has been found guilty.
A jury has convicted Stephan Cannon in the death of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn in June 2020.
Cannon was found guilty Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, and three counts of armed criminal action. He is scheduled to be sentenced in the case on the morning of September 13.
Dorn had been killed by Cannon because Dorn had responded to a burglary alarm during those BLM riots and was trying to prevent the looting of a friend’s pawn shop. He was the ultimate blacklisted American, murdered because he stood for law, justice, and civilized behavior.
Dorn’s widow, Ann Dorn, also a retired St. Louis police officer, made it very clear in an op-ed shortly thereafter who she really blames for her husband’s death.
David didn’t agree with or support Black Lives Matter. He never understood Black Lives Matter, because it never actually did anything to help Black lives. The same year David was killed, over a dozen children were shot in St. Louis, and never once did Black Lives Matter show up. Their lives mattered. Fifty-five businesses were looted or destroyed the night David was murdered, many of them Black-owned. Their livelihoods mattered. My husband was a Black man who selflessly served his community for over 40 years. His life mattered.
Ultimately, David was murdered because the people who are supposed to protect our streets — active-duty police officers — were ordered not to do their jobs. It is clear that the anti-law enforcement sentiment that has been fueled in this country by Democrat and left-wing activist rhetoric has gone too far. Yes, there are bad cops out there, but addressing bad policing by ordering no policing at all is not a solution. It is extremist, it is dangerous, and it cost my husband his life. [emphasis mine]
This conviction gives the widow a little closure, as well as the rest of us. We watched as rioters and looters in 2020 routinely committed violence and destruction and murder, all in the name of “Black Lives Matter,” and routinely walked away without punishment or even arrest. Cannon’s conviction proves that there is still a little justice in America.
But only a little, and even that is hardly sufficient. As Mrs. Dorn notes, those rioters were not only given free rein by Democrat politicians and their supporters in the press and general public, those same politicians and supporters egged them on, eagerly encouraging and endorsing the violence and rioting. Most of those Democrats are still in office, where they continue their hateful rhetoric and thuggish bigoted behavior. Until these individuals are removed from power, David Dorn’s death will still hang over us like a ghost, condemning us all for allowing the evil that caused it to go unpunished, and possibly even get rewarded.
We cannot bring David Dorn back to life, but we can at least show we really honor his death by never again voting for the people who were glad to see him killed. And if you don’t believe such people are legion in our country, just consider this tiny factoid from Cannon’s trial:
As the jury began to leave the courtroom at the conclusion of the trial, another one of Cannon’s supporters stood up, used an expletive to describe people in court, and stormed out.
Nor is this support for the BLM riots limited to leftist grassroots thugs. The Democratic Party endorsed those riots in 2020. Watch how in June 2020 — at the height of the worst rioting — Kamala Harris enthusiastically encouraged the riots to continue, right up until the November 2020 election:
Nor was Kamala Harris alone. David Dorn died because Democrats nationwide wanted the riots and looting, and did not care if any innocent people were harmed or killed along the way. As a result, good people like David Dorn died.
Thus, the conviction of Stephan Cannon will only be a Pyrrhic victory if these same politicians continue to remain in power. The November election is only ten weeks away. What will you be doing that day? Your laundry? Watching television? Or will you vote against this thuggish Democratic Party, so its behavior will be removed, at least for awhile, from the political world?
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The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
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David Dorn: Some justice at last
Two years after the BLM riots of 2020, the murderer of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn has been found guilty.
A jury has convicted Stephan Cannon in the death of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn in June 2020.
Cannon was found guilty Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, and three counts of armed criminal action. He is scheduled to be sentenced in the case on the morning of September 13.
Dorn had been killed by Cannon because Dorn had responded to a burglary alarm during those BLM riots and was trying to prevent the looting of a friend’s pawn shop. He was the ultimate blacklisted American, murdered because he stood for law, justice, and civilized behavior.
Dorn’s widow, Ann Dorn, also a retired St. Louis police officer, made it very clear in an op-ed shortly thereafter who she really blames for her husband’s death.
David didn’t agree with or support Black Lives Matter. He never understood Black Lives Matter, because it never actually did anything to help Black lives. The same year David was killed, over a dozen children were shot in St. Louis, and never once did Black Lives Matter show up. Their lives mattered. Fifty-five businesses were looted or destroyed the night David was murdered, many of them Black-owned. Their livelihoods mattered. My husband was a Black man who selflessly served his community for over 40 years. His life mattered.
Ultimately, David was murdered because the people who are supposed to protect our streets — active-duty police officers — were ordered not to do their jobs. It is clear that the anti-law enforcement sentiment that has been fueled in this country by Democrat and left-wing activist rhetoric has gone too far. Yes, there are bad cops out there, but addressing bad policing by ordering no policing at all is not a solution. It is extremist, it is dangerous, and it cost my husband his life. [emphasis mine]
This conviction gives the widow a little closure, as well as the rest of us. We watched as rioters and looters in 2020 routinely committed violence and destruction and murder, all in the name of “Black Lives Matter,” and routinely walked away without punishment or even arrest. Cannon’s conviction proves that there is still a little justice in America.
But only a little, and even that is hardly sufficient. As Mrs. Dorn notes, those rioters were not only given free rein by Democrat politicians and their supporters in the press and general public, those same politicians and supporters egged them on, eagerly encouraging and endorsing the violence and rioting. Most of those Democrats are still in office, where they continue their hateful rhetoric and thuggish bigoted behavior. Until these individuals are removed from power, David Dorn’s death will still hang over us like a ghost, condemning us all for allowing the evil that caused it to go unpunished, and possibly even get rewarded.
We cannot bring David Dorn back to life, but we can at least show we really honor his death by never again voting for the people who were glad to see him killed. And if you don’t believe such people are legion in our country, just consider this tiny factoid from Cannon’s trial:
As the jury began to leave the courtroom at the conclusion of the trial, another one of Cannon’s supporters stood up, used an expletive to describe people in court, and stormed out.
Nor is this support for the BLM riots limited to leftist grassroots thugs. The Democratic Party endorsed those riots in 2020. Watch how in June 2020 — at the height of the worst rioting — Kamala Harris enthusiastically encouraged the riots to continue, right up until the November 2020 election:
Nor was Kamala Harris alone. David Dorn died because Democrats nationwide wanted the riots and looting, and did not care if any innocent people were harmed or killed along the way. As a result, good people like David Dorn died.
Thus, the conviction of Stephan Cannon will only be a Pyrrhic victory if these same politicians continue to remain in power. The November election is only ten weeks away. What will you be doing that day? Your laundry? Watching television? Or will you vote against this thuggish Democratic Party, so its behavior will be removed, at least for awhile, from the political world?
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Veep Harris encouraging this kind of behavior… then they turn around and jam on Trump for inciting that bizarre thing on January 6th.
What was that CHAZ/CHOP thing in Seattle? Openly encouraged by the then mayor of Seattle. Now Starbucks is closing a half dozen stores in the area for reasons barely hinted at: junkies and criminals making it unsafe for the employees.
And We the People continue to re-elect the masters of this wreckage. That part I don’t get.
Actually, David, in many of these Democrat run areas “We the People” may have no say in who gets into these offices because the vote is already fixed. Democrats will do anything and everything necessary to stay in power.
Good.
A minor comfort for his widow, no doubt.
A small win for actual justice.