After spending nearly three years in prison, Tuo Thao is prepared to speak out. When asked why, Thao told American Reformer’s Daniel Strand, “If I know the truth and allow an innocent man to languish in prison, what good am I to God?” The innocent man in question was his partner on the night of May 25, 2020, Derek Chauvin, now serving a 22-year prison sentence.
In the Federal court, Thao was sentenced to 42 months in prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights. The State of Minnesota sentenced him to 57 months for aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. With “good time,” Thao served a little more than three years.
Thao has often been asked, “How someone who was doing crowd control and never touched Floyd could have been charged.” The reason, he believes: was that “I would not bend the knee to the mob and could not be bribed as a witness.”
Thao protects officers from growing mob
Thao had particular value to the prosecution as a racial minority. His people, the Hmong of Laos, were persecuted for having sided with the Americans in their shared struggle against the Communists. The son of grateful refugees, Thao was not willing to collaborate with the crypto-commies who run Minnesota. “It was only by the grace of God and His mighty hand,” explains Thao, “that I was able to stand up to evil and call it out as such, knowing that it would cost me much pain.”
The prosecutors hoped Thao would turn on Chauvin. He refused. “I knew Derek personally. As a minority officer, if he were racist, why would I want to work with him?” says Thao. “I have never heard of anyone complaining that he was racist. That racial narrative was purely manufactured to stoke racial tension within the country.”
Thao knows his history. “I think we can also trace some of the racial tensions back to when President Barack Obama was in the White House,” said Thao. “You really see this oppressor and oppressed ideology being employed during election years. It’s kind of ironic because President Obama was elected as the first black president.”
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo lied under oath about Chauvin’s restraint
The case against Chauvin, elaborates Thao, was “absolutely unfair.” Knowing the case as well as he does, he cites the specifics. The restraint Chauvin used was “taught by the police department.” The original prosecutors, when “pressured to charge us and/or add charges,” removed themselves from the case.
The medical examiner, Andrew Baker, was “pressured professionally by an outside colleague, Dr. Roger Mitchell,” to add neck compression to the diagnosis or face public rebuke. The prosecutors schemed “to avoid any illicit drug discussions.”
These corruptions in the Chauvin case went unchecked because the powers that be had pre-positioned their thumbs on the scale of justice. Thao does not shy from naming names, citing “Tim Walz, Keith Ellison, Jacob Frey, Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo…and Judge Peter Cahill,” not to mention “the Biden Department of Justice” and the “mainstream media.” Under these circumstances, says Thao, “It is impossible to defend yourself.”
Daddy comes home after 3 years in prison
Prison was not easy. On day one, he narrowly avoided an assassination attempt. For the duration, he desperately missed his wife and three children. What sustained him was his faith in Jesus. Says Thao, “As we know, Jesus says that in this life we will have trials and tribulations, but he has overcome the world. That is a promise those who are suffering can hold on to.”
For further education on this subject, Thao recommends The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota Mao, both films by Liz Collin and Dr. J.C. Chaix. “The enemies of our nation are not at the gates,” he concludes, “but inside the gates now, infiltrating all our institutions.”
Not without hope, Thao adds, “I believe it is our responsibility to ensure fertile ground for the faith of our children to be practiced and matured in this nation.” Thao’s valiant story undermines every virtue our friends on the left attribute to themselves. Please share.
