I don’t think Captain Dorn would have suffered the four horsemen of George Floyd’s apocalypse under his command. He seems like a really good guy. Police culture being what it is though, he might not have had a choice but to quit or put up with bad cops like that.
I didn't infer that at all. So I'm not sure where you're getting that. Unless it is a bait and switch tactic.
It was just an opinion. I was catching up, following your post, reading articles out of respect that his life And story seems genuinely important to at least one member of the community in the context of all that’s going on, and you sorta seem like a reasonable guy so I could learn something. I did the search to probe the saturation of the story, so I could see whether or not you had a point. In the reading what struck me was imagining coming up in Missouri, joining the force in the thick Nixony part of the twentieth century as a black guy and rising and rising through the department to make chief and to still be as connected and loved as he still is in his community at the end, hold that love all those years through everything.
Then in retirement, I don’t know much about it, but to see the steady push from Travon, to Michael, through so many to Breanna, to George and all the backlash, some directly to the units he led. He probably heard and thought more about Ferguson then almost anyone, and now this was all going down. What was on his mind as he went to see what was happening at the pawn shop?
His whole life was stepping between danger and the endangered, right to the end, I don’t see any of that or even the outcome being terribly unsettling to him. I believe his life ended in a way that he no way desired but entirely understood and likely came at least close to terms with a long time ago.
The evolution of policing and criminalization over the last 30 years and even more so over the last 3, him witnessing all of it in light of his unimaginable work, and feeling in the face of that evidence he’d accomplished what? That seems harder on the heart and more disquieting to the soul.
The CBS station you referenced is a local station. But the CBS National news was mute. As were the rest.
The Daily Beast is not a major mainstream outlet. In fact I've never heard of it. Doesn't make is invalid. But it is about as well known as its Conservative counterpart The Daily Caller is known to most liberals. But I suspect you know that already.
Once again none of the major players, CNN, MSNBC, ABC National, CBS National, NBC National, or a Major online AOL, mentioned it at all.
The non-fox tv affiliated stuff was local, regional, While the print stuff tended to be both of those things and fringy, no doubt.
I’d note that one or two things happened, or continued to unfold in the interim. Which may be an excuse or none at all.
As far as the big few, Fox, Foxnews, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC, I don’t find the useful as more than occasional sources of news. They are interesting for their takes, what they present and omit, as well as how they present what they do bring up. I don’t give the stormer or the caller or Breitbart clicks, but I get their echoes and that’s enough. The closest I come to that kind of crazy is the occasional look at zero hedge.
I used to graveyard manage a coffeehouse right next to a Scientology recruitment center. A lot of the people on Fox remind me of the people the Scientologists put on the night shift, which was their prime time. This makes me skeptical of guys like Baier and Wallace who otherwise I’d give a less jaundiced ear. It has gotten both better and worse since Roger went on to his reward.
How did I find out about the funeral? From FOX news which one would of course expect to see it as it fits their agenda. And once again I'm not picking sides in this. I'm trying to make the point of each side has their own agenda and dogma to attend to.
Given that point, which could still use a little fleshing out, where do you feel the context is for the life and death of Captain Dorn in the context of all that is transpiring? Does it lead us anywhere? If so where?
If we chew this over with the diligence it deserves, which I’m happy to do, like the singing of Allison’s Restaurant, it may get picked up and develop a life of its own.
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