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This is an excerpt from the just-released book From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement. Chin s fatal 1982 beating and the cries of injustice that followed still resonate
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Paula Yoo is a former Detroit News reporter, who moved to Los Angeles to author books and write for TV shows.
By Paula Yoo When Ronald Ebens swung the Jackie Robinson Louisville Slugger baseball bat one last time at Vincent Chin, it was as if he were going for a home run. Vincent wasn t supposed to be here. Not Lying in a pool of his own blood in the middle of Woodward Avenue across from a McDonald s in Detroit on a warm June night. He was supposed to be out celebrating his bachelor party with his best friends Jimmy Choi, Gary Koivu, and Bob Siroskey.