Jasmine Rand is not a “U.S. Attorney” but is an attorney in private practice with Parks & Crump in Tallahassee, Florida, where she leads the firm’s Civil Rights Department. Parks and Crump represented the Trayvon Martin family.............
The story wouldn’t get much attention if it just read “attorney”......... For example, who would have read the article if it read “Lybian Attorney........”?
Since it is a minor Caribbean news outlet of limited quality, the use of U.S. instead of American may have been unintentional.