Isiah 1:17- Learn to do well. Seek justice, Relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao gave a long-form interview on the Yada Yada Gold podcast and spoke with unusual directness about four things that still get little sustained attention: the plea deal he rejected, what he was doing and thinking on May 25, 2020, the reality of federal prison, and the incentives that reward those who adopt the preferred narrative.
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| Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao in 2020 via ABCNews |
Ben Shapiro’s latest episode examines the recent conviction of Karmelo Anthony and what it says about changing race relations in the U.S. A case that might have triggered widespread unrest in past years unfolded with relative calm. Here’s a clear breakdown of the facts and why this feels different.
On April 2, 2025, at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony (now 19) fatally stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. Both were student-athletes—Anthony from Centennial High, Metcalf from Memorial High. A rain delay sent athletes seeking shelter under team tents.
Witness accounts indicate Metcalf and his twin brother asked Anthony to leave their school’s tent. Words were exchanged, followed by light pushing. Anthony reportedly said something like “Touch me and see what happens.” He then pulled a knife from his backpack and stabbed Metcalf in the chest. Metcalf was unarmed. Anthony claimed self-defense.
On June 9, 2026, a Collin County jury convicted Anthony of murder after brief deliberation. He received a 35-year sentence (eligible for parole after about 17 years). The self-defense claim was rejected.
Before sharing the recent news video from Des Moines, Iowa regarding the schools superintendent there.
I was shocked to hear he attempted to flee and was detained by ICE. It turns out he was not an American citizen, and it caused me to wonder how could this happen in of all places Iowa.
From what I've see so far it appears that soon to be former Superintendent Ian Roberts lied about his immigration status. And perhaps the folks at the Des Moines Public Schools had failed to adequately vet Mr. Roberts. This article from the Des Moines Register says the Des Moines schools had used an outside firm to vet him.
And reading that article further he seemed to have not be forthcoming about where he actually got his degrees. He misrepresented his doctoral degree at Maryland's Morgan State University although he later got his doctorate at a private for-profit university.
I just got to say this whole story was a mess. This is what happened yesterday in Des Moines. From the start we hear students had walked out in support of Mr. Roberts via this report from KCCI. Roberts had submitted his resignation. [VIDEO]
I have to say, the immigration issue is a charged issue right now. There's no middle ground here so perhaps I shouldn't be too surprised if there are people who want to support Mr. Roberts.
However, where I stop at is the fact that he misrepresented his citizenship and his academic record. That really bothers me and I wonder if the people who are supporting him actually realize how he arrived in this position.
My position is to point the finger at him as much as I would at the school district who hired him.
In sharing this with you all, I wanted to remind you that an anniversary is coming up. George Floyd's death at the hands of Minneapolis Police five years ago. It touched off a very chaotic period in American cities and eventually moved around the world.
The civil unrest that took place around the country in the wake of Floyd's death happened during the pandemic as the world began to sort of open up after a time of mitigation efforts. My belief is that this wouldn't have been as problematic if people weren't largely isolated in their homes in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
Harmeet Dhillion is currently the head of the Civil Rights Division in the Trump administration. And she discusses why American cities had become very unsafe and she often cites these federal consent decrees. You can watch below and once you see her speak with Tucker Carlson I will have more thoughts. [VIDEO]
[VIDEO] How many of you saw a similar most recent video featuring Ben Shapiro facing off against a variety of liberals in a debate.
To see a cop defend his profession to those who have ran afoul of the law at some point in their lives is something I like to see more of. It's definitely a good thing to see two side of the law & order coin engage in a discussion with regards to policing.
[VIDEO] What happened to George Floyd happened over four years ago, and people were finding ways to justify mass protest and violent looting during a global pandemic.
First I sort of agree that the officer who is the face of what happened to Floyd - Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin - was largely railroaded. It wasn't so much that he was guilty for the fate of Geo. Floyd, but that people wanted him to be guilty. Emotions overrode the facts of the case.
While I didn't follow this case very closely I was aware that an autopsy showed that what likely killed Floyd was the fentanyl in his system. Also even the Minneapolis police chief of that time admitted in court that in another angle of Floyd's arrest that Chauvin's knee was between his shoulder blades not his neck. And remember Chauvin for whatever reason killed Floyd by placing his knee on his neck.
Of course Liberal Hivemind explores the circumstances where Chauvin was accused of murder in this situation. There were a few things that just didn't add up here.
In this video he shows excerpts of a documentary that explores the George Floyd narrative. He never mentioned the title of the film which I believe is entitled The Fall of Minneapolis. If you believe someone like a Laura Ingram from FOX News that city hasn't recovered from the destruction of the riots "peaceful protests" that took place after his death.
I have to find this documentary and see what it says. Though one thing that figures was the small bag of narcotics that George Floyd had in his mouth. And of course more than the viral footage that we're most familiar with - that showed Chauvin's knee on Floyd's neck, allegedly - we see how the narrative begins to take hold. Several politicians and activists from the Mayor of Minneapolis, to Al Sharpton to Don Lemon to even Speaker Nancy Pelosi, those individuals could never say the actual amount of time that George Floyd was restrained.
Look the question we have to ask ourselves is how much did the media fail to inform us on this story? What details were missed? I had in the heat of the moment consider police actions callous in this situation but then again I knew only what was being said on TV.
Perhaps Chauvin and the other officers who responded didn't exactly exhibit good judgement. Perhaps they did everything they could in this situation. They may have attempted to insure that Floyd get medical care from paramedics because I learned in this video for the first time that these officers called an ambulance. They weren't about to let that man lay on the ground and not attempt to have a paramedic check him out.
If you're a thinking person hopefully what happened with Floyd causes you to keep asking questions about that whole situation.
Oh wait there's more the Fall of Minneapolis documentary is available for free on YouTube. Check it out and now I have no excuse to not see it. I'm putting it in the queue...
[VIDEO] ABL Discusses what happened recently in Atlanta, this woman who is said to be a Navy veteran and reportedly suffers from PTSD attempted to burn a Federal landmark, the childhood home of Martin Luther King Jr. She was stopped by bystanders which included two retired NYPD officers. Wow!
When I first saw this story, I wondered if she even knew or cared about what she was doing. Perhaps it was a mental break of some sort, however, what drove her to do something like this. What led her to MLK's home?
Now I want to visit even more. If I had been able to come to SpelHouse homecoming if I had the time, this is one place that was worth visiting and sharing on my YouTube channel :P
[VIDEO] I've only been clued into this story during most of this day and will leave out some of the reporting I heard. What I know is that another troubled human being went to a place and started shooting and killed people. Of course this troubled human being was dealt with fatally by police officers.
I could bring up their sexual orientation or gender identity and that's not important. What's important is their state of mind. This person was disturbed to kill not only three adult staff members at this school, she also killed three children. That is disturbing and more disturbing is that this person knew they were going to die doing this.
I ache for the families of the deceased and the children who never will be able to live their lives into adulthood. And the course that this person had undertook only shows how troubled they are. I wish there was an easy answer to stop people like this from harming others.
And no more grandstanding about guns. I've had enough this is not a gun issue it's a serious people/mental health issue.
[VIDEO] This was recorded on Monday, January 30th and he seems to also agree those guys lost all control and beat this guy needlessly. These guys weren't thinking about the environment they were in. Our society is fractured and race is used to further divide.
I think he's right when he says if these officers had been white instead of Black, this nation would be on fire right now. Thankfully that hasn't happened and over the course of the weekend in Memphis, TENN there was some incidents of looting or just trucks ramming through the storefronts of businesses down there. Thankfully nothing worse than that.
And of course the second half of this episode he responds to viewer dispatches and discusses his new book about the pilgrims.
[VIDEO] I wanted to share this dispatch from Tim Pool who discusses more about the situation in Memphis, TENN with Tyre Nichols. The idea that this incident was gang related, perhaps unlikely though one issue discussed was the lowering of standards for hiring police officers there
I didn't know that Nichols had been stopped by police, ran away, and then was resisting arrest. Now this might be in line with how things spiraled out of control and the police eventually lost it and began to use excessive force on Mr. Nichols.
The sad thing is that a cast of police brutality now has further racial or even anti-police overtones. Also note that the police officers involved in this very tragic case are all Black. And yet this is still a case of "white supremacy".
Later tonite, I have a meme to share with you. It's sort of related to this case, but I want to make a statement about it.
[VIDEO] I'm learning more and more about the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee. Nichols who is said to be originally from Sacramento, California was badly beaten by five Memphis Police Officers who have since been fired from their positions and charged with murder.
Nichols was the type who paid no attention to stereotypes of Black males. He left behind a son :(. He liked to skateboard and was a landscape photographer. And I also learned he had Crohn's disease a very tall guy who was underweight sadly if he was badly beaten by these officers and he wasn't in robust health this probably would've been very bad for him. He died three days after this incident.
I found this ig post from Viola Davis which are a few snapshots regarding Mr. Nichols and includes the meme "Black men deserve to grow old"
[VIDEO] Tim Pool discusses this with his crew on his recent podcast. I think this discussion and Elon Musk's Twitter new policy on "doxing" had to do with this incident.
Just hours after claiming that sharing personal information that could put a person in danger was illegal on Twitter, Elon Musk posted a video of a man in a car he claimed was harassing his child, posting their license plate to his over 120 million followers.
The drama Wednesday began with the suspension of @ElonJet, an account run by a teenager that tracked the location of Elon Musk’s private jet using publicly available data. Musk banned the account, just a month after saying that his dedication to free speech was so great that he would keep the account online.
We're living in chaotic times. People decide they don't like you so any information they can use to intimidate you. The wrong opinions can cause safety issues. Are we at a point beyond can we agree to disagree? Does everything you do cause enemies to come out of the woodwork.
I just had to share Musk's tweet showing the man.
Now people have an issue with this and the man is covering his face, and of course the license plate is shared in the video. All I can say to this is that if you come for someone you get what you get. And I suppose you're lucky if videoing that person doesn't cause such a situation to escalate.Anyone recognize this person or car? pic.twitter.com/2U0Eyx7iwl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
[VIDEO] I didn't subscribe to his channel until recently when doing I saw his most recent trip to Germany where he visit Elvis Presley's home when he was in the U.S. Army stationed there.
He's done recently videos on the newly reopened 6th Street viaduct bridge in Los Angeles, California noting cars doing donuts on it. Wait something like that made the news here in Chicago, except it was in the middle of an intersection late at nite near downtown.
In any event in this video you see above the City of Los Angeles is trying to abate that problem by putting up little porcelain dividers in the middle of the bridge. Those little yellow objects might not stop a car, but it would be as easy as it had been to do donuts. In fact hopefully you're a good driver and know how to avoid them.
Just found this interesting and wanted to share this with you.
And wait haven't I heard about this bridge in a song: I Love L.A. Well perhaps not specifically the bridge. :P
A PJ Media article discussing a ruling in Minnesota regarding the staffing of sworn police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The city charter there requires the city to have a certain level of staffing according to the population so the staffing should be at 731 police officers.
Of course as you know perhaps a year after the devastating riots in the wake of George Floyd's death there was an attempt to change the Minneapolis city charter which was thankfully denied by voters. Bear in mind many activists there wanted to abolish the police department and create a dept. of public safety. They wanted to reimagine policing. It's only mentioned in this article that Minneapolis fell in for the defund police craze.
They also mention the mayor Jacob Frey kneeling and weeping at the casket of George Floyd described as "a drug-addled drifter who was stopped by police outside a store where the owner claimed he and his cohorts were passing fake $20 bills. Floyd was under the influence of fentanyl and meth, a heart-slowing cocktail of drugs, which was exacerbated by Officer Derek Chauvin holding Floyd down with his knee." And he was effectively rejected in his efforts to curry favor with defund police and BLM activists in a humiliating scene recorded by anything from a news camera to smartphone cameras.
Of course when you place greater scrutiny on police or you keep police from doing their jobs in serving and protecting the police (though in fact insuring that for criminals there are immediate consequences for their actions), then what happens, more crime. Which brought about this lawsuit in Minneapolis which ruled that the City of Minneapolis must insure the appropriate staffing of police or explain why they are unable to do so.Minneapolis mayor @Jacob_Frey just got his struggle session pic.twitter.com/WpreLrpWMN
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 6, 2020
Among others including the recalled Chesa Boudin is Kim Foxx who Cook County residents had the opportunity to get rid of but we re-elected her in 2020. So we got her until the next presidential race when Cook County votes for state's attorney. For those of you who just want her primaried and hopefully defeated - which honesty is more likely than voting Republican for most - be very wary of what other Democrat you want to replace her with.
Via Newsalert
[VIDEO] This incident was noted in the IL GOP gubernatorial candidate which aired on our local NBC affiliate this evening. Unfortunately there were some fatalities and I see the alleged gunman is killed and we're going to see some posturing in Washington, DC as a result (of course there will be posturing).
I wish there was an easy answer to preventing very mentally ill individuals from taking a gun and using it on innocent people. Kids shouldn't go to school and expect any harm to come to them from anyone.
[VIDEO] This video from Dice discusses the recent State of the Union Address where President Brando....Joe Biden discusses the issue of defunding police. Even he recognizes the folly of that policy enacted in many cities in the aftermath of George Floyd's demise. We see quotes from a number of Democrats on this many of them support defund police.
I suppose even he recognizes - or perhaps whoever wrote his speech recognizes - that defunding police is a mistake in the face of crime waves in our urban centers. We've been hearing about smash and grabs in many of our retail stores around the country. Of course we also have issues with assaults and gun crimes and of course homicides that we need police to adequately deal with.
The next step is to deal with these prosecutors who treat some of these violent crimes with kid gloves, however, in order to deal with the crime for certain we need to drop this defund police fantasy. Some of the Democrats you see in the video above including San Francisco Mayor London Breed even recognizes that public officials are failing on this issue and enough is enough.
Still some will still choose politics over keeping the citizenry safe.
[VIDEO] As you watch this over 20 min video from Pool allow me to share some details in text form:
A Louisville activist has been identified as a suspect in Monday's attempted shooting of mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg.
Quintez Brown, 21, was charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment after Greenberg was shot at in his campaign headquarters Monday morning in Butchertown, LMPD spokeswoman Elizabeth Ruoff said late Monday.
Brown, a civil rights activist, is a former intern and editorial columnist for The Courier Journal.
A police report says a man later identified as Brown entered the building and fired a 9mm Glock handgun at Greenberg before fleeing the building.
Greenberg was not injured, but one of the bullets struck his clothing, Chief Erika Shields said earlier Monday. Police evacuated Greenberg, a Democrat, and his staff from the building and eventually took a person into custody, she said.
I'd be very curious about motive, however, as we go through this article form the Courier Journal it seems as if Mr. Brown has some issues. Such as for example what happened when he disappeared last summer for two weeks. What was the circumstances of that?
Also he's running for office himself (Louisville Metro Council) as Mr. Greenberg is running for Mayor of Louisville. So doing this probably won't bode well for his political career.
[VIDEO] Tim Pool and his guests on the IRL podcast describe a number of graphic examples. The assualt on a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon or BLM rioters in Minneapolis who outright burned down a police station there or even the assault on the Church of the Presidents - St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square - which is the church where President Donald Trump did a photo op lifting the Bible over his head. Those weren't considered acts of domestic terror unlike the breach of the U.S. Capitol.
One's got to ask the question, what's the difference? We justify one set of riots over the other?
