The Black Lives Matter riots can feel like a million years ago. But they weren't—they were just two years ago, and justice is still being meted out for the terrible things that occurred during the chaos:
City jurors on Wednesday found Stephen Cannon guilty of first-degree murder and several other charges in the 2020 killing of retired St. Louis police Capt. David Dorn.
After three hours of deliberation on the third day of evidence and testimony, Cannon, 26, of Glasgow Village, was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery, burglary and three counts of armed criminal action in Dorn's June 2, 2020, killing.
Dorn, 77, was shot outside Lee's Jewelry & Pawn shop at 4123 Martin Luther King Drive when he showed up to stop looters who had descended on the business during violence and destruction that followed protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
It's hard to celebrate this sort of verdict, so to speak—justice isn't always a happy thing, and sometimes there are layers of sadness to a verdict like this.
Indeed, Dorn's wife is a paragon of grace as she extends her sympathies to the family of the young man who killed her beloved husband:
"I lost David, and now they're losing a brother and a son," she said. "I feel sorry for them, and my heart goes out to them as well because they lost, too."
You just gotta...
Let's pray everyone involved in this terrible ordeal finds peace and healing, one way or another.
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