'You killed a man over some TVs,' yelled a man who recorded the death on Facebook Live. “That’s somebody’s granddaddy.”
Dorn's death quickly attracted the attention of conservatives and others arguing for law and order, including President Donald Trump, who tweeted, “Our highest respect to the family of David Dorn, a Great Police Captain from St. Louis, who was viciously shot and killed by despicable looters last night. We honor our police officers, perhaps more than ever before.”
As protests roiled the nation again on Tuesday night, St. Louis was the site of some of the worst violence. Four police officers were shot in a separate incident and more than 45 businesses were robbed. In January, St. Louis’s first black elected district attorney, Kim Gardner, filed a lawsuit against the city and its biggest police union, alleging that the union “has gone out of its way to support white officers accused of perpetrating acts of violence and excessive force against African American citizens.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers fatally shot eight people in 2019 — all but one were black, though less than half of the city’s population is black.
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