Dishonest St. Paul cop Tou Mo Cha has been given a generous plea bargain.So the state was saved some cash on trial costs, but the public’s right to know has been denied. Or at least postponed—here are other corruption investigations lined up, so we may soon learn more about how some Hmong have burrowed into American institutions with criminal results. There has been a disturbing pattern of Hmong groups morphing into gangs, as in the violence centered around the Gen. Vang faction, plus recent crime both in the streets and in the suites.

The Hminneapolis Star-Tribune continues to treat this serious crime story like happy-Hmong feature fluff. Where else do you see an accused criminal sympathetically described at length as a civic leader in slanted articles…

“When Sia Lo’s family arrived in St. Paul in the 1970s after the Vietnam War, they had nothing. Local church groups gave the Hmong refugees shoes and clothing.

“Since Lo’s humble arrival at age 10, his climb has been meteoric, both in traditional Hmong leadership circles and in the St. Paul political sphere. “

Sia Lo, an assistant to St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly, is being investigated by the FBI in connection with a $75,000 bribe for the construction of a Hmong funeral home.

Of course there is criminal behavior among all cultural groups. But here the press acts to cover up wrong-doing among immigrants—and even takes the side of a criminal against American victims, as happened when the six Wisconsin hunters were murdered by a Hmong last November.