Ann Dorn says although her late husband retired from the police force, “he never retired from serving his community.”
Retired St. Louis Police Capt. David Dorn was shot to death by Stephan Cannon in June 2020. Cannon was convicted last month on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and three counts of armed criminal action.
At the time of his death, Dorn had been the point of contact for a pawn shop’s alarm system for the last 30 years. When the alarm was tripped on June 2, 2020, he arrived on the scene to see Cannon and others attempting to rob the store.
“David told them it wasn’t worth it, that there was little of value in the shop that wasn’t tightly locked up,” Ann Dorn wrote in an op-ed for Fox News. “Moments later Cannon shot David in the chest. He bled out on the sidewalk.”
Ann, a retired St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department sergeant, wrote that her husband became a police officer because he wanted to be a superhero as a little boy.
“And he was a superhero,” she wrote. “But if real life superheroes exist, so do supervillains.”
She wrote that individuals such as billionaire philanthropist George Soros and Vice President Kamala Harris “fan the flames of division” with their support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
David did not believe in Black Lives Matter, she wrote, because he believed it did nothing to make a difference in black lives.
“My husband was a Black man who selflessly served his community for over 40 years,” she wrote. “His life mattered.”
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Ann wrote that it was clear to her that anti-law enforcement rhetoric is dangerous and prevents active-duty police officers from doing their jobs.
“Yes, there are bad cops out there, but addressing bad policing by ordering no policing at all is not a solution,” she wrote. “It is extremist, it is dangerous, and it cost my husband his life.”
