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June 3, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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HIS NAME WAS DAVID DORN
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His name was Police Captain David Dorn.
He's from St.
Louis. 77-year-old retired police captain.
He was murdered by looters when he tried to protect a local shop.
People who encouraged these riots, was it worth it?
Did you get what you want? Sickening.
And, you know, I... So this guy became a cop in the 1960s.
Of course, he faced, obviously, a fair amount of racism, I would imagine, back in the day.
And he was just gunned down.
He was retired.
And he was helping out somebody whose porn shop, a friend of his whose porn shop was being attacked by looters.
And he just got...
I mean, he just got gunned down.
77-year-old guy tries to save a city, suits up, so to speak, and goes down to try and stop the bad guys.
As men do, right?
As men do. As men generally do.
And what happened?
Well, of course, we can see what happened.
What happened was...
And you know what happened with his wife, right?
I mean, you know this kind of stuff, right?
What happened was his wife probably said to him, Dave, you're 77 years old.
You've done your time. This is not your fight.
These are young punks full of bravado and bullets.
So this is not your time.
Don't go down there. And he's like, he's got a sense of obligation.
He's got a sense of duty, this guy.
And he wanted to help his city.
He wanted to help his friend.
He wanted to help push back against the violence he had dedicated his whole life to attempting to control.
I don't know much about this guy's career, but I do know that he strikes me as an old-school kind of hero, somebody who stood up against the mob.
And what happened?
He didn't listen to his wife, as we often don't, right, we men?
We often don't listen to our wives, right?
We do things that are courageous to the point of foolhardiness, right?
So courage is a very, very difficult thing.
Too little you're a coward, too much you're foolhardy and reckless.
And you're like that, you know, that apple-cheeked young kid in every World War I movie who's so enthusiastic and so patriotic and then just goes over the barbed wire and gets completely ripped apart by Hun bullets.
So, you know, this is a guy...
I want you to think of just...
You live on a street, right? You live on a street.
And David Dorn moves in next door.
On one side. On your left is David Dorn.
And on your right, George Floyd moves in.
The drug addict.
The violent felon.
Who are you going to want to lean over...
Your backyard fans to have a chit-chat with, who you were going to enjoy when they knock on the door and say, eh, I'm a little bored, let's have a chat.
I got nothing to do.
What's on your mind, right? Sit down, have a great conversation.
These absolute bastards.
It's the first time I've sworn on Twitter.
It's the first time I've sworn on Twitter.
I don't mind a bit of salty language.
I don't mind. But they just fucking killed him.
They just killed him. They just straight up.
Looters just ran past him. I don't know about that race.
The looters just straight up ran past him, dropped a bullet in his skull.
And kept going. And of course, the mainstream media, at least as far as I saw when I had started recording this, the mainstream media, they hadn't reported on this.
It was David Dorn.
No reports. Because he doesn't fit the narrative, right?
And he was...
Like, he strikes me as sort of an old-school Thomas Sowell and all of this kind of stuff that...
He just seemed like a good guy.
And I could be over-sentimentalizing.
I don't know the man, obviously.
But I just...
This one really, really hit me.
This one really hit me. I don't know how you guys are feeling.
Let me know. But this one did...
Really hit me. Really hard.
And we're going to have to see how this plays out.
Just terrible stuff.
So This is the story. During a night of violent protests and looting in St.
Louis, David Dorn was shot and killed by looters at a porn shop in an incident that was captured on Facebook Live.
It was streamed on Facebook Live.
And this guy's got a wife.
He's got kids.
He's got grandkids, I'm sure.
And this is what they have to look at.
They have to look at this guy dropped dead like a carcass on the floor.
Bleeding. So, Dawn, a retired police captain, was shot in the chest at around 2.30 a.m.
and died in front of the shop, least born in jewelry.
A 77-year-old was identified on Tuesday morning during a press conference by the mayor and police chief.
Hayden said Dawn was killed, quote, during a looting process.
David Dawn was exercising law enforcement training that he learned here.
Police are investigating the shooting, and there have been no arrests yet in connection with Dawn's death.
Former St. Louis Police Chief Tim Fitch said on Twitter that Dawn was, quote, a true public servant protecting and serving all the way to the end.
None of us who knew you are surprised you went out fighting at least porn this morning.
Godspeed, my friend. The incident was captured on Facebook.
Live, Dawn's wife Anne, Marie Dawn, told St.
Louis Post-Dispatch that he was friends with the owner of the porn shop.
She said he worked with him and would go check on the property when the burglar alarms went off to make sure everything was okay.
The outlet said she was too distraught to talk more about her husband.
The incident was captured on Facebook Live since been removed.
The person taking the video is in a car which pulls up to the sidewalk by the porn shop after the shooting takes place.
The person then gets out of the vehicle and walks up to the victim saying, stay with me, stay with me.
He then says, all for some TVs, man.
For real? It's somebody's granddaddy.
The Ethical Society of Police, who posted about Doran's death, told the Post-Dispatch that they were aware of the video.
The state representative wrote on Facebook, I just seen a man die on Liveman, SMH. He also told the outlet he was very traumatized right now.
Dawn worked as a St.
Louis police officer for 38 years before retiring in 2007.
A tweet from the Ethical Society of the Police said, One of the people murdered last night was a retired St.
Louis city captain. He was murdered by looters at a porn shop.
He was the type of brother that would have given his life to save them if he had to.
Violence is not the answer.
Whether it's a citizen or officer, R.I.P. captain.
He started in the 60s as a rookie patrol officer before rising up the ranks and becoming a captain.
Dawn also served as the deputy commander of the Bureau of Patrol Support, overseeing patrols, a tactical unit, and commercial vehicles.
Dawn's wife still works for the police department here.
He said Dawn was a fine captain, and many of us, the other officers, looked up to him.
Dawn was well liked, very pleasant, and his wife still works there, so a very sad time for our agency.
We will honor him. Now, I just wanted to mention, and I hope you guys are not ever in this situation.
I really do. I really hope that you're not ever in this situation.
But if you are, please, my friends, do me a favor.
If you come up to somebody who's been shot...
And he's lying, gasping and choking in a pool of his own blood.
Please stop filming.
Please stop filming. Kneel down beside that person.
Take his hand and tell him he's going to be alright.
Tell him it's not so bad.
Lie to him, if you have to.
Hold his hand and have a human-to-human contact as he slips into the great beyond.
Okay? Don't fucking stream his death to Facebook Live.
Kneel down and hold his hand and be with him in this moment of death, as we would all want someone to kneel with us and hold our hand as we slip into that, whatever that is.
That's not streaming stuff, man.
That's human-to-human contact that people who are dying desperately need.
Have you people never seen any fucking war movies?
You don't GoPro that, people.
You just don't. You just don't.
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