Justice Not Served

We haven’t heard much about 77-year-old David Dorn on the national news. That’s because it doesn’t fit the narrative.

Dorn was a retired police captain on the St. Louis Police Department. He was asked to help protect a friend’s pawn shop in the city. On the evening of June 2^nd, with looting and rioting in that neighborhood, Captain Dorn appeared at the shop.

Surveillance cameras and Facebook tell the rest of the story. Dorn confronts looters, is shot and killed. The video gets live streamed on Facebook for 94,000 people to watch Dorn die.

That night, four St. Louis officers were shot, 55 businesses were burglarized.

But there’s more….Yesterday it was revealed that the man charged in the murder, 24-year-old Stephan Cannon, is no stranger to violence or crime. Six years ago….when he was 18…Cannon got a seven year felony conviction for robbery. He should still be in prison.

But he got a break. Instead of serving, Cannon got probation. Court records then show he has twice violated probation….and got two more breaks. He never went to prison.

Why would anyone want to be a police officer? In this case, it was the criminal justice system that failed….not police. In our own state, the Governor has released hundreds of felons….including murderers back into the population just in the last few months. Justice not served…

Not a story of broken cops….rather a story of a broken system.