{"id":15693,"date":"2020-06-02T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=15693"},"modified":"2020-06-02T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T21:18:19","slug":"retired-st-louis-police-captain-fatally-shot-on-facebook-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=15693","title":{"rendered":"Retired St. Louis Police Captain Fatally Shot on Facebook Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Looters fatally shoot retired St. Louis police captain on Facebook Live video<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15722\" style=\"width: 918px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15722\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15722\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-5.14.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"908\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-5.14.04-PM.png 908w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-5.14.04-PM-300x209.png 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-5.14.04-PM-768x535.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired St. Louis police Capt. David Dorn was shot and killed outside a pawnshop in St. Louis, Mo.KTVI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Kate Sheehy<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p>A retired police captain was fatally shot by looters in St. Louis on Tuesday \u2014 in a chilling incident apparently aired on Facebook Live.<\/p>\n<p>David Dorn, a 77-year-old former cop who had spent half his life on the Missouri force, was shot dead on the sidewalk in front of a pawnshop early Tuesday amid violent protests after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/01\/george-floyd-died-of-asphyxia-to-neck-family-mes-report\/\">the Minnesota police-brutality killing<\/a>\u00a0of George Floyd \u2014 and several people, including a state pol, said they watched Dorn\u2019s murder unfold in a clip on the social media platform,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/retired-police-captain-shot-to-death-at-st-louis-pawn-shop-in-slaying-caught-on\/article_d482138c-0224-5393-bd87-9898bebb3fd1.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook_St._Louis_Post-Dispatch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just seen a man die on live man! Smh,\u201d state Rep. Rasheen Aldridge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RasheenAldridgeJr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marquaello.futrell\/posts\/1676399589203153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another person suggested<\/a>\u00a0that as Dorn lay dying, no one helped him, instead choosing to record his death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I just witnessed on several lives has me sickened to my stomach. The man just was shot and killed outside of Lee\u2019s Pawn and Jewelry,\u201d wrote Marquaello Futrell, whose profile says he is a former city cop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to be a victim of a robbery\/assault but to lie in you own blood pleading for help and no help comes other than people standing around on FB Live recording his death. All over social media. I\u2019m upset and can\u2019t sleep!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The video has since been taken down, and Facebook told the Post-Dispatch that it was trying to gather information about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Dorn\u2019s wife told the paper that her husband was a friend of the pawnshop\u2019s owner and would check on the property, including when its burglar alarm went off. There were widespread violent protests in St. Louis overnight.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made in the killing.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/02\/looters-kill-retired-st-louis-police-capt-on-facebook-live\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/02\/looters-kill-retired-st-louis-police-capt-on-facebook-live\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looters fatally shoot retired St. Louis police captain on Facebook Live video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}