Capt. David Dorn's widow: 'Democrat and left-wing activist rhetoric has gone too far'

David Dorn, a retired St. Louis police captain who went onto become police chief of Moline Acres, was gunned down on June 2, 2020, at the height of the BLM riots. The 77-year-old was checking on a friend's business when he discovered that looters had gutted Lee's Pawn and Jewelry. Dorn allegedly fired warning shots into the air in an effort to prompt the marauders to disperse.

Stephan Cannon responded by shooting at the 44-year police veteran ten times. Dorn bled out on the sidewalk.

That same night, four police officers were shot in St. Louis. The 2020 BLM riots claimed over 25 lives and caused over $2 billion in damages.

Cannon was convicted in July of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, stealing $750 or more, unlawful possession of a firearm, and with three counts of armed criminal action.

On August 23, Fox News published an opinion piece written by Capt. Dorn's widow Ann Marie Dorn. Mrs. Dorn noted she and Capt. Dorn had lived happily together for 30 years, which was cut short when her city "erupted in violence as [BLM] descended on St. Louis."

Mrs. Dorn noted that her husband was a "superhero," but that if "real life superheroes exist, so do supervillains." She identified two affluential people she regards today as supervillains.

The first, wrote Dorn, is billionaire George Soros — the kind of supervillain "who use[s] their power and influence to promote extremist politics and fan the flames of division."

In addition to backing "reform-minded" prosecutors overseeing major upticks in crime, Soros allegedly poured millions of dollars into BLM initiatives via his Open Society Foundations.

The second variety of supervillain, according to Mrs. Dorn, is personified by Vice President Kamala Harris, "who raised money for the rioters' bail funds," and by the "CEOs of prominent companies who blindly gave their support and money to this. If a foreign organization were tied to nationwide rioting in the US, we'd probably call it a terrorist organization."

Four months after the BLM riots in St. Louis, Kamala Harris spoke at the NAACP's national convention, saying: "Nothing that we have achieved that has been about progress, in particular around civil rights, has come without a fight, and so I always am going to interpret these protests as an essential component of evolution in our country." She claimed further that "[BLM] has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system."

Dorn wrote that her husband neither agreed with nor supported BLM, "because it never actually did anything to help Black lives."

Although Mrs. Dorn acknowledged that Capt. Dorn "was Black ... [h]is life mattered," she suggested that BLM refused to, just as they allegedly exhibited indifference to the shooting of a dozen children in St. Louis during 2020. "Never once did [BLM] 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."

Dorn concluded by attributing her husband's murder, in part, to the fact that police and first responders were "ordered not to do their jobs." The order to stand down was resultant of an "anti-law enforcement sentiment that has been fueled in this country by Democrat and left-wing activist rhetoric [that] has gone too far."

Although ahead of the midterm elections and in light of rising crime rates, Democrats are now trying to distance themselves from defund the police rhetoric, their past support for the sentiment is well documented.

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