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On May 21, 2012, Zane Plemmons Rosales, a Mexican American photojournalist, was at a hotel in Nuevo Laredo when a gunfight broke out. According to the hotel clerk, "At 10 there was a shootout in front of the hotel, so he had put a camera over his neck and told her 'I'm a reporter. I am going to go take some photos. I will be back.' At 3 a.m., two masked and armed men came in.

As tensions in Ferguson linger in the wake of Michael Brown's death, here is a roundup of relevant literature and coverage from the blogsophere.

In Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans, Soya Jung at Race Files comments on the normalizing of black death in America and the ills of the model minority myth.