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Tou Thao, one of the police officers wrongly victimized to appease the racist mobs rampaging around the country after the drug overdose death of career criminal George Floyd, provided a noble example of faith and courage.
Knowing the system is rigged against him, Thao maintained his dignity, quoted at length from religious teachings and refused to confess to some sort of imaginary crime that he did not commit.
In a grotesque miscarriage of justice, Thao, who was not even touching George Floyd when the vicious criminal was suffering a drug overdose due to the high levels of fentanyl in his system, was sentenced to over 4 years in prison.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, seeking to court favor with the lynch mobs baying for the blood of these fine officers, hit Thao with an even higher prison sentence than the prosecution had demanded, while complaining that Thao never showed any “remorse”.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a racist former member of the Nation of Islam hate group with a long history of spewing hate, complained that Thao had stuck to his Christian faith and refused to express “remorse” or take “responsibility” for Floyd’s drug overdose death.
“I know we cannot hide our thoughts or intent from God. For we must give an account on the day we appear before God. Therefore I must obey, to hold on to the truth I did not commit these crimes,” Thao told the court. “My conscience is clear.”
Thao, a man of principle and courage, had declared that “it would be a lie and a sin” to confess to a crime he did not commit.
Thao closed with saying that he is praying for everyone in the room, including Cahill, and that if anyone needs him for prayer, “you know where to find me.”
“Thank you, judge,” he said. “God bless you.”
Now the father of three has been consigned to a brutal prison system. His children will grow up without a father. A twisted society that makes a brutal monster like George Floyd into a hero and punishes men like Thao while ignoring their statements of conscience is disgraceful. In the face of the lies and abuse, Thao has been a model of courage, conviction and decency. May our society learn from his example.
The police ought to all have narcan in their vehicles, so they can administer it in cases of suspected OD.
Your thought is one coming from a deeply good, charitable mind. I am ashamed to admit that my first thought was, “why?”
That’s an interesting question. It isn’t purely altruism, but also to protect the police officers from legal consequences in case the OD is fatal.
That’s one thing that bugs me about thx always attacking altruism. I would say in most cases (at least in my experience) the altruism can benefit both the giver and receiver.
I wish good police had no need to fear the consequences of necessary violent confrontations.
THX attacks “altruism” but he has a different definition of it than you. His “altruism” is the MANDATORY giving up of one’s self in service of another’s interest / happiness. He hates Christianity because he wrongly believes it mandates altruism as the highest moral good.
I think you are talking about Christian charity – which is never mandated and, when done with gratitude for the opportunity and love of God, actually does benefit both the giver and receiver.
The judge is an absolute sick psychopath for expecting remorse from an innocent dignified man.
While an obvious unjust punishment in a rigged lynching trial that wanted blood from the just to pay for the death of the unjust…I’d ask you…where have you heard that story before?
Christ’s death on the cross was for debts He did not owe. Now, believers owe a debt we can never repay.
And, while prison is rarely anyone’s first choice, try to imagine what the New Testament would look like without all of Paul’s writings from prison. In his case, prison was his first best destiny and I can hardly imagine we would even know his name today without his multiple trips there. Tao’s response in court proves that he has what it takes for it to be his first best destiny as well.
He reminds me of they martyr Telemachus.
Sorry! Link did not come through. Anyone can search for “Telemachus” in your search engine and find his powerful story.
These are the stories that make my blood boil.
And outstanding summary by Mr. Greenfield. What an outrage, “social justice” in the raw resulting in a complete miscarriage of justice. Some will recall the original narrative concocted for the Floyd overdose death was that racist white cops murdered the innocent Floyd. But there was trouble with that narrative. For one thing, there was only one white cop involved. And nobody could come up with a shred of evidence that racism was involved. And Floyd had ingested a lethal concoction of amphetamines, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, marijuana, several other drugs and all topped-off by good old-fashioned fentanyl. He was a dead man walking when he first mentioned “I don’t want to be arrested,” and “I can’t breath.”
Thao had little to do with the arrest. He was standing in front of the police cruiser, trying to prevent a howling mob to stay back so the police could subdue the “gentle giant,” Floyd, and haul him off to a lockup so he couldn’t mow anybody down while driving his Mercedes SUV in this intoxicated condition. Naturally the Gentle Giant put up a giant struggle. The howling mob menacing Thao made the emergency ten times worse. And now the cowardly judge handling the case not only threw the book at Thao and saw fit to lecture him as well. The judge should be the one locked up. Thao has shown exception courage and poise while being sent riding on the social justice railroad. He deserves our respect and our prayers.
Just remember a Bolt of Lightning Destroyed the Floyd Memorial think about that for a while a False Idol to a False Prophet
Yeah, that was an interesting omen 🙂
What’s going here? Cahill? Biden?
Was not cahill!! a Celtic warcry?
I was unaware that Ireland was exporting Moral Pygmyism.
I’m glad George M. Cohan didn’t see this.
An apology is tantamount to a guilty plea. Thau plead not guilty, as is his right as an American. The judge ought to be fired and sued. Neither will happen, of course.
Were I a cop, if I had to go into a minority area, I’d either request a transfer to a non-black area, quit my job and profession or be deliberately slow to react to any calls for help from minority neighborhoods.
My sister was an Oakland cop. She was usually assigned to transportation hubs. After some years of baby-sitting addicts and mental defectives, she quit law enforcement altogether.
We either need alpha male cops who are strong, talented and well-trained– backed by a department that will have their backs and defend them OR we will need to have only blacks policing black communities.
If we continue to have this unequal justice for white and Asian cops who handle high-crime black neighborhoods, then blacks will need to police their own.
I would never sleep if I had a family member policing in Oakland – but if she were female, I would go insane with worry.
“The Tribunal will now retire to chambers to consider the evidence and return shortly with the guilty verdict.”
We all are inundated with so many new stories per minute , per hour , per day.
How are you becoming desensitized?.
Well, the story has affected me like none other I’ve heard in a long time I feel personally devastated for this poor gentleman and his family. It sickens me to no end..
As a person who is reads history, including the stories of the martyrs. , this is their horrendous act in a modern time
Wonder if there is a Go Fund Me site for the officer’s family?
Floyd the most popular career criminal in the minds of Liberals and a Lie S Day M.S. Media scum suckers don’t forget how Lightning destroyed his Memorial