"She wanted to make sure her sister and brother were cool, that they had they head on strong," says Shinese Harlins. She didnt do nothing!. Ja Du is part . returned with a hairpin trigger that, she said, in effect made the gun an On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. that a prosecution appeal of a case is rare and usually unsuccessful because of Firefighters extinguish a fire during the rioting in Los Angeles, on April 30, 1992. On March 16, 1991, Soon Ja Du fatally shot a 15-year-old African-American girl, Latasha Harlins, in her convenience store. And that's something that I've seen a lot of in discussions of, frankly, dead black children. The property later became a market under different ownership. It's that he flattened her, and he took her and turned her into this angelic, perfect victim. Exactly one week later the verdict came back for the four officers in Rodney King's case: Not Guilty. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. In 2018, she was invited by the French authorities to create four windows for Chartres Cathedral. The Nov. 27 issue of the In following the Korean American character Grace Park and the African American character Shawn Matthews and their families the book explores how those tensions still exist today. So they had live broadcast soliciting help for that. that consideration, she would have come to the same sentencing conclusion. To add, in that same year, 2 Korean store owners had been shot dead from black ppl in their store. On her description of Los Angeles on the brink of a violent eruption. In 1991, Harlins, 15, and Soon Ja Du, 51, got into an altercation over a bottle of orange juice inside Du's Empire Liquor in South Los Angeles. We earned about $300-400 combined. Also, she had used an illegally modified handgun that required less pressure to fire than the usual ones. Hector Tobar worked at the Los Angeles Times for two decades: as a city reporter, national and foreign correspondent, columnist and with the books and culture department. Two weeks after King's beating, Korean American grocer Soon Ja Du fatally shot 15-year-old Latasha Harlins after a dispute over a bottle of orange juice. I felt that black people were reaction to a conflict with white people by attacking Koreans. However, Judge Joyce Karlin awarded her quite a simple sentence: a $500 fine, 400 hours of community service, and 5 years of probation with no jail time. Charles Lloyd, the Black attorney who defended People talked of a possible riot, rising up, led by blacks.The word spread through calls, so we closed the stores and came home. decision to challenge the sentence: Although Reiners announcement to appeal Korean grocer Soon Ja Du fatally shot Latasha Harlins after a scuffle an Soon's store. In memory of the losses suffered in 1992, Korean-Americans call the unrest "Sa-I-Gu," or 4-2-9 in native pronunciation. it into her backpack. When she thinks of her father now, she doesn't think of that video. account. That day, around 10 oclock, around then, a woman called Radio Korea. There weren't too many Koreans back then-- the immigrants Since there were few Koreans, if we saw any Asians passing by on the street, we would ask, 'Are you, by any chance, Korean? Perspectives Columns. He has also worked as features editor at the LA Weekly and as editor of the bilingual San Francisco magazine El Tecolote. In 2020, Netflix released a documentary titled A Love Song for Latasha, celebrating the life of Latasha Harlins. But when I went to a market, I would be met by stares of people looking at me as a stranger. Even so, a reading of the entire discourse at They lived as slaves, if you look at history, and finally in the 1960s, through Martin Luther King, came this far. Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR When The Times endorsed one of her opponents, she wrote an impassioned, angry letter to the editor in defense of both her decision and the principle of judicial independence. Karlin found that Du overreacted, but that her But she didnt belong [on the bench] anyway.. In 1991, she became a Superior Court judge, which is when the case of Latasha Harlins occurred. This one came from inside Empire Liquors, capturing a Korean American grocer, Soon Ja Du, shooting 15-year-old Latasha Harlins in the back of the head. An angry Du then threw a chair at the kid. over-reaction was understandable in light of the climate of intense fear Rodney King, the Los Angeles motorist whose beating by police was captured on videotape, in Beverly Hills, speaks during a press conference, where he calls for the end of violence in the city in May 1992. You know, in all these different arenas, Asian Americans are able to code white, and black Americans just are not. He can appeal, but he wont be out in favor of the candidacy of Judge Joyce Karlin, and against the lynch-mob In fact, the store had a reputation of accusing kids in the neighborhood for shoplifting when they didnt buy something. because he wouldnt shift Karlin from a criminal department at the Compton And I found that really interesting. regard to the qualifications of that yet-to-emerge soul. "It's been my life since I was 7 years old," she says. "Charles Lloyd, the Black attorney who defended Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiner's decision to appeal. community in 1991 for placing on probation a Korean-American shopkeeper policy, Reiner lifted it, agreeing to disqualify Karlin only on a case-by-case Self - Defendant. On November 15, 1991, Soon Ja Du was convicted for voluntary manslaughter and was potentially facing up to 16 years behind bars for the incident. We were busy making money, raising kids and sending them to a good school and feeding them good food. A policeman, a soldier, he always wanted to become one. There's a movie coming out about Latasha Harlins soon. Trayvon Martin was murdered almost exactly 21 years later, on February 20, 2012.. I was not able to communicate in English, and I felt looked down on. Robert Sullivan/AFP via Getty Images Soon's husband, Bill Heung Ki Du heard the gunshot then ran into the store, when he got there Soon appeared confused . polls.. Last stop for the immigrant, the refugee, the fugitive, the pioneer. Last year, on the 30th anniversary of Lastaha Harlins' death, the family unveiled a memorial mural at that park, part of its mission to keep her memory alive. It was like they were celebrating her for killing Latasha. In 1992, Karlin was the only one of 82 Superior Court judges to face electoral opposition. Park notes that it wasn't a Korean judge who gave a lenient sentence in the killing of Latasha Williams. Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiners decision to appeal. The manner in which Joyce Karlin treated Harlins in the courtroom, just as Soon Ja Du This was such a stunning miscarriage of I have a bond with Sandra Bland's sister. Her daughter, at that time, was an 8th grader who was enrolled at Manhattan Beach Middle School, and Joyce was the parliamentarian for the PTA executive board at the school. While disapproving the jurys recommendation of 16 years of imprisonment, Joyce Karlin stated. Even strangers were made familiar just by hearing that they were also Korean and lead us to open homes the Korean community was hard to find. over the leniency shown Du, the publicityseeking, vote-coveting demagogue whos And it was banks, not Korean grocers, who denied loans to Black businesses so that most businesses in Black communities were owned by outsiders. This is how I frankly viewed the issue: blacks had been oppressed for hundreds of years and were subject to racial discrimination that was further evidenced in the court ruling. at a time when Karlin is facing a possible recall based on the sentence, and language barriers and cultural misunderstandings. Seeing this renewed attention in the media as I was starting to write this novel, I kept thinking: This is not about the past at all this is about right now. After a brief scuffle over a bottle of orange juice, Du had shot Harlins in the back of the head as the girl was leaving the Empire Market on Figueroa Street in South-Central Los Angeles. It should be a time for healing.. "I have a few of those bonds," King says. kill Du, who got a .38 caliber handgun from beneath the counter, unaware that A regular girl who dreamed of being a lawyer, who lost her mother to gun violence. She could have been sentenced to 16 years in prison, but the judge placed her. And their spirits seem joined this week, as Latasha makes a brief but emotional appearance in the recently aired second episode of O.J. Two years later, President Bill Clinton nominated Collins for a seat on the District Court for the Central District of California. Soon Ja Du and her family migrated to Los Angeles in 1976 when she was 35 years old. Stuyvesant area. judge from a casewithout an explanation. She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. The Los Angeles-born writer is the author of five books, which have been translated into 15 languages. into making politically expeditious decisions, rather than exercising as Reiner is gearing up for re-election.. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. decision? Soon Ja Du, age 60s, lives in Los Angeles, CA. She now usesthough she didnt thenthe surname of her husband, His novel The Barbarian Nurseries was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2011 and also won the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction; his latest work is The Last Great Road Bum. Hes married, the father of three children and the son of Guatemalan immigrants. and certainly no basis for a challenge where the judge strove to fulfill her Can you pronounce this word better On how the Latasha Harlins story inspired her. According to the videotape from the surveillance camera in the store, Du proceeded to snatch the teenagers backpack, after which Latasha punched Du twice, knocking her to the ground. And so I can see it happening in LA I mean, but I can also see it happening in any major city. After I gave birth to my son, I was very happyWhen [Eddie] was first born, I saw other Korean women having baby-sitters, and I didn't think it was appropriate to have others take care of my baby. The retired judge was elected to Manhattan Beachs city council twice from 1999 to 2007, and she even ran for a position to become a part of the citys School Board Trustees. Soon Ja Du, a 51-year-old Korean woman who suspected Latasha was trying . $500 to the restitution fund, reimburse the girls family for medical and Chased out, priced out, native children living in exile. Reiner sought review by the California Police Chief Daryl Gates, who invented SWAT, retired. title. own political career through denigration of some other office-holder, posing as 100-page writ petition in the Court of Appeal for this district. . Soon Ja Du was born on Saturday, December 27, 1941 (age 79 years; as of 2020), in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. My husbands income alone was not enough for us to get by I think he was paid $2 an hour. The Latasha Harlins murder and the light sentence that Soon Ja Du got off with she was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge, in an extraordinary decision that basically. So the Korean radio back then used to call out on young people to come out to the streetsSo he said he needed to go out. That means the jury found the defendant intended to In the local station's original interview with Ja Du, the reporter identifies Ja Du as a "transsexual" and. I'm a writer. Soon Ja Du (born 1940), South Korean-born American convenience store owner Jeong Sun-ja (born 1947), South Korean diver Kim Sun-ja (athlete) (born 1966), South Korean sprinter Lee Soon-ja (born 1939), South Korean former first lady, wife of Chun Doo-hwan Lee Sun-ja (born 1978), South Korean sprint canoer The life was in another word, I felt like we were not treated as human beings. Kevin de Len just postponed Wakanda Forever screening after uproar, Letters to the Editor: Trumps perfect call to Georgia was wrong. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. It was so swollen and bruised. My husband came as a skilled worker immigrant. Reiner announced his hide caption. Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. Tobar has an MFA in creative writing from UC Irvine and studied at UC Santa Cruz and at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter. In 1991, she became a Superior Court judge, which is when the case of Latasha Harlins occurred. challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial: Inherent in our endorsement of Karlin is the This is something that I wanted to address too. She was given probation and paid the family 500.00 dollars. Main Page Her sentence seemed to have the opposite effect, however; she became the target of protests and an unsuccessful recall campaign. It is true that the appeals court has not He points out that 1992 also provided a lost opportunity, a missed chance for a different kind of reform. View their profile including current address, phone number 818-361-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Whitepages, the most trusted online directory. --- Vielen Dank an Frau Dr. Schiffmann fr das ausfhrliche Interview und auch an Prof. Heesen, die Deutsche Hirnstiftung und alle anderen Beteiligten fr die investierte Zeit in die Patientenleitlinie! One customer, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins, selected a bottle of orange juice in the back of the store. Riots examines the tragic death of a fifteen-year-old black girl on March 16, 1991, and its repercussions. At the time, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was killed by Soon Ja Du, a Korean woman who owned a south Los Angeles store. That expansion of policing came, in part, as a reaction to civil rights movements and previous uprisings in cities across America. But was that reaction understandable? In fact, the African-American community felt that the verdict was quite racist, and that Dus background played a huge role in Judge Joyces decision. I write about these topics; I write about difficult things. But our voice was so faint because the Korean community was very small. So it scared me, and I did not like the darkness that resembled the prison color. The decision caused outrage in Los Angeles and a large number of Korean-owned businesses were attacked. terrible, said Lloyd, who believes the announcement is politically motivated It is the most professional School Board we have ever seen. She got the position, and in 2002, she even served as the mayor of the city. $500 to the restitution fund, reimburse the girls family for medical and The store was owned and operated by a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du and her family. An exclusive interview with Sophia Nahli Allison on her heartbreaking doc 'A Love Song for Latasha' due out on Netflix. hide caption. : Made In America. This is not a time for rhetoric, Karlin said in imposing the sentence. dismissal of the candidacy of any person who might challenge her, without [Karlin] could have [ordered] a new trial, or I need a reflection paper on LATASHA HARLINS, SOON JA DU, AND JOYCE. After entering the store, Latasha got a bottle of orange juice from the shelf and placed it in her backpack. And I was very scared of that unkindness. . Now that I think about it, our kids at our work -- well, even cleaning during night hours was a work for us -- at times, we brought our kids, and what I regret to this day is, having worked even a third job. In November 1991, Soon Ja Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge in the case gave her no jail time. Steph Cha fictionalizes a real-life event: in 1991, Soon Ja Du, a Korean female convenience store owner, shot and killed Latasha Harlins (in the novel: Ava Matthews), a 15-year-old African American girl. Following this altercation, Latasha just decided to leave but this was when Du shot her from behind, killing the 15-year old instantly. It was Dus husband, Billy Heung Ki Du, who ended up calling 911. His actions in this instance were reminiscent of So we said amongst ourselves that this shouldnt be. shoplifting, Reiner instituted a blanket affidavit policy against the judge and Although not as widely known as the Rodney King beating and trial, the incident is considered just as important a trigger for the 1992 rebellion. 51-year-old Korean-born female store owner Soon Ja Du shot 15-year-old Harlin in the back of the head in 1991. I heard this story myself. Latasha was defenseless. All these feelings of unsafe crimes were building up to the Latasha incident; and Korean owners hated it. Latasha, 15, was fatally shot in a liquor store. A Nov. 20 Los Angeles Times editorial remarks: The decision by a local judge to sentence a A writ petition that ordinarily would have met ensued, which led to punches being thrown. challengers. hide caption. Then, hell broke loose following the acquittal of white officers who had beaten Rodney King, an African American man, within an inch of his life on camera. On the link between early '90s LA and the present day. Because of the tension around the killing of Latasha Harlins and so much damage in Koreatown, a narrative quickly took over in the media that the LA riots were about inter-ethnic tensions. Those of us of the first generation, including myself and others, have no particular strength. Well, the jury had already determined that He came as a motorcycle mechanic. Or if not, help at least. You know, it's a very diverse place where people are constantly clashing. Harlins, was not especially vulnerable, having used her fists as weapons just On March 16, 1991, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins was shot and killed at Empire Liquor in South Central, Los Angeles. My son was shot by someone who had fired from the roof, and it turned out that the people on the roof werent blacks, but Koreans. voluntary manslaughter. "On the eve of the rebellion you have on the one hand, concentrated poverty, the lack of opportunities, plus the expansion of policing," he says. Joyce Ann Karlin was born on January 5, 1951, in Caracas,Venezuela. He had an older sister here, so we came to LA. "Because for instance, Korean Americans, they're not the richest people. What if something happens? That was our first encounter with a riot. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. hide caption. Cell phones opened the floodgates. Thirteen days after the Rodney King beating a 15-year-old black girl named Latasha Harlins was shot in the back of the head by a Korean shopkeeper who accused her of shoplifting. And even on the streets, I could tell that people were not kind. That day, I only watched the television and felt ill at ease, but still thought that it would never come to my house. The Harlins family was awarded $300,000. Taken in context, it is clear that Karlins My husband started working at a gas station, pumping gas. challenge of the Karlins sentence in the case would be a longshot. But, he Atty. on Nov. 15 to 10 years in state prison, but suspended the sentence and placed The deeply tragic shooting of Latasha Harlins, a Black teenager who died after a verbal altercation with Korean store owner Soon Ja Du, is still an important flashpoint in the Los Angeles Uprising. But how the broadcasters continued to put Koreatown into focus and made an issue out of it, both puzzled and enraged us. She was persuaded that Du was not a danger to society, and did not I am also the type to get enraged by that kind of thing. In a written statement, Karlin, 46, now a judge in Juvenile Dependency Court, said she was ending her seven-year judicial career to spend more time with her family. The tragic killing of Latasha Harlins is often regarded as one of the precursors of the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (English) author name string. discharged. The fatal killing of a 15-year-old black girl is the subject of the short documentary A Love Song For Latasha. In it, the victims best friend and cousin reflect on what transpired on a fatal day that Latasha Harlins was shot over a $1.79 bottle of orange juice. Chris Martinez/Associated Press Joyce Karlin Fahey, who recently served two terms as mayor of Manhattan acting under the misimpression that this was simply an accidental shooting. Anti-Asian Racism's Deep Roots in the United States. — -- Jung Hui Lee and her husband emigrated from Korea to the United States in 1972, settling first in Virginia and later in California in pursuit of the American Dream. Pete Wilson, could have sentenced Du to 16 years in state prison. Even though Soon Ja Du, the accused, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the judge gave her a very lenient sentence: a $500 fine, 400 hours of community service, and 5 years of probation with no jail time. Its There has been some change, like a concerted effort to heal the wounds between the Black and Korean American community that's work the Harlins family has been deeply involved in. Later, it was discovered he was shot by another Korean-American by mistake. South-Central Los Angeles grocer to probationrather than prisonfor killing a Thats when it went through my head to do something, though I didnt know what. This tragic killing would also light the spark for the racial violence that was witnessed in LA in 1992, which resulted in more than 50 deaths and humongous property damage. It should be a time for healing. She defended the verdict and said it was made after careful deliberation and that it followed the legal guidelines. "Every single period of mass rebellion has always produced a moral panic," Kelley says. No wonder, was it, that it huffed and heaved, ready to blow. On March 16, 1991, Du was at the liquor store in place of her son, who had recently been threatened at the store by local gang members. She has the option of not doing so, More than anything grand, I imagined that I would work in a big office building, where I would go to work early in the morning, and leave by 5pm and have a plenty of leisure time for hobbies, like eating out at a fancy restaurant. manslaughter. In 1964, the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Pranck (aged 57 years; as of 2021). order to show cause why a writ should not be granted. A taut novel that explores Korean and Black racial tensions that arose amidst the LA race riots of 1992. condition that she pay Five, in an order by Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby, issued an With George Floyd's sister," she pauses and shakes her head. On the journalist character, who reports on the girl who is killed in the story. Latasha Harlins. It wasn't a Korean jury that declared the four police officers not guilty in the beating of Rodney King. But he had left, and so had most of the people he knew. Lora King was 7 years old when she saw the black and white video on television news, grainy footage of four police officers savagely beating a Black man. Unlike the LAPD officers, Du was convicted of voluntary manslaughter with the jury. Appeal on April 21, 1992, issued a decision denying a writ, concluding that the And the broadcasters painted it as a conflict between Koreans and blacks and made it big, in my opinion. Korean-born grocer convicted of killing a black teen-ager sparked outrage. A white woman's self-proclaimed "transracial" identity has sparked discussion and some confusion among people of Filipino heritage. At that point, she was working in the Juvenile Dependency Court. #eazye #SoonJaDu #LatashaHarlins |Eazy-E Speaks on the Korean Store owner who killed Latasha Harlins | check out my other videos if you have not already done. When then-Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joyce Park says we need to look beyond individuals, to systems of power the criminal justice system, the financial system, policing, to understand the root causes of the uprisings. And hearing about it and thinking about it, I felt this sense of guilt and shame even though I don't know Soon Ja Du. Getting by was the priority, to establish a living. Spike Lees Do the Right Karlin defended her sentence of Du as within legal guidelines, a decision made after careful deliberation on the evidence. aside than a pivotal determination. "These cases really play out in the public in tandem with one another," says Brenda Stevenson, a UCLA professor who wrote a book about the Latasha Harlins' case, "almost as if they were parallel." require rehabilitation or incapacitation. accidentally, Karlin said, and a woman of Mrs. Dus size would have to decide Hide Archive footage (2 credits) 2017 The Nineties (TV Mini Series documentary) Self - Defendant. It was at a press conference that Reiner announced his Latasha died with $2 in her hand.. Later, police concluded that there was "no attempt at shoplifting." Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced with only a $500 fine . Karlin (since retired from the bench) came under attack in the African-American The One of them was the shooting of Black teenager Latasha Harlins by a Korean American store owner. Karlin, who is seeking re-election to the Superior Court in the June 2 primary, made the comments during an interview in her chambers. "You have LBJ saying cops are frontline soldiers against the rebellions.". Soon Ja Du with her husband Billy Heung Ki Du. How? However, many felt that the court was lenient with Soon Ja Du only because of her race. 5 Films Look At The Los Angeles Riots From (Almost) Every Angle, When LA Erupted In Anger: A Look Back At The Rodney King Riots, 'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks. Consequently, people in the community felt that there were different standards of justice for different races. There, we were faced with a discrimination of language. 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