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Former Federal Official: Fed Prosecution of Zimmerman Case Would be A Mistake

allan12 years ago12 years ago09 mins

Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The acquittal Saturday of George Zimmerman in a Florida state courtroom has already brought cries by civil rights leaders for a federal…

The Legacy of the Racist Murder of Vincent Chin

ross13 years ago13 years ago010 mins

By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Thirty years ago this week, a young Chinese-American man, Vincent Chin, was bludgeoned to death by a man wielding a baseball bat, only a few steps away from a strip club where he and his friends had been celebrating his bachelor’s party. The crime and its state and federal prosecutions raise…