Firefighters extinguish a fire during the rioting in Los Angeles, on April 30, 1992. It suggested that former gang members work with police, going on ride-alongs to change the nature and reception of policing. Edit View history Latasha Harlins (January 1, 1976 - March 16, 1991) was an African-American girl who was fatally shot at age 15 by Soon Ja Du ( Korean: ), a 49-year-old Korean-American convenience store owner. [Karlin] could have [ordered] a new trial, or But Los Angeles Dist. We arrived in Virginia in April or early May. Joyce A. Karlin, the judge whose light sentencing of a Korean-born grocer in the 1991 shooting of a 15-year-old black girl inflamed already simmering racial tensions in Los Angeles, said Monday that she was resigning from the bench. killing. In 1974, Joyce graduated fromLoyola University Chicago School of Law. Its The Los Angeles-born writer is the author of five books, which have been translated into 15 languages. Last stop for the immigrant, the refugee, the fugitive, the pioneer. And the husband, the owner said that he couldnt give us a raise, but that if we wished to go to LA, then he would let us go. the grocery business because of her fear of being robbed, supposedly had been Absolutely. one particular sentencea slim basis for a challenge under any circumstances, He left in September 2014. I am also the type to get enraged by that kind of thing. discretion as their consciences dictate. successful.Hes just playing politics, and the people are being misled. 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. Reiners office on Jan. 10, 1992, filed a We earned about $300-400 combined. The cashier, a woman named Soon Ja Du, accused her of shoplifting. robbery. The court stated that the crime was committed under extreme provocation and that Dus capacity to act rationally in the situation was undermined by her past experiences with the robberies. A state appeals court upheld the sentence in April 1992, a week before the riots. In response to Watts in 1965, the Los Angeles Police Department invented SWAT teams, which were first used on The Black Panther Party's Los Angeles headquarters. shooting was captured on the stores surveillance tape and widely shown by the Because the city was human, and humans could only take so much. Ordinarily, this would The short documentary, A Love Song For Latasha, also covers this story, and in this article, we take a look at the judge who ruled over the case. Although Karlin was reelected to the Superior Court bench, winning 51% of the vote, she eventually moved to Juvenile Dependency Court, a transfer she had requested before the Du case, friends said. She said, 'This ain't right.'". Karlins campaign was guided by political #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. They lived as slaves, if you look at history, and finally in the 1960s, through Martin Luther King, came this far. A white woman's self-proclaimed "transracial" identity has sparked discussion and some confusion among people of Filipino heritage. Because though he was born here, he experienced the difficult times when he was young, when we had brought him to our workplaces in our struggling days. When all was said and done, Soon Ja Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge in the case ordered a sentence of only five years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine. Getting by was the priority, so we were not choosy over which job to work at. challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial: Inherent in our endorsement of Karlin is the Set in present-day Los Angeles, the novel is centered on Korean American Grace Park, a nave and dutiful daughter who lives and works in the Valley with her secret-keeping parents, and Shawn Matthews, an African American ex-con whose sister was murdered by a Korean grocery store owner. And even on the streets, I could tell that people were not kind. As Du was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the jury recommended the maximum prison sentence for the crime, which was 16 years. "We had just moved to the heart of South Central LA on 55th and Western," she says. I have been honored to spend the last 20 years serving the public but now I want to devote time to my family, Karlin wrote. You know, in all these different arenas, Asian Americans are able to code white, and black Americans just are not. Harlins case has been so painful and sensitive that one is left with the years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha In March 1991, 15-year-old Harlins, a straight-A student at Westchester High School, entered a corner store to buy orange juice for her family. In an interview, Cha who is Korean American and grew up in the LA region in the 1990s spoke about the "direct throughlines" from then to now. A regular girl who dreamed of being a lawyer, who lost her mother to gun violence. The incident escalated tensions between Korean-American and black residents of Los Angeles. seconds before the shooting. This comment tends to show the judge was not All you people sitting, applauding over a child killer, Harlins yelled. The Los Angeles Police Department ballistics report also stated that the handgun used by Du was altered in such a way that it required much less pressure on the trigger to fire than an ordinary handgun. During the 1992 L.A. uprising, Lees 18-year old son, Edward Jae Song Lee entered the fray to help protect his Koreatown neighborhood, which was virtually abandoned by police. Many Korean-Americans run mom-and-pop markets in black Shinese Harlins-Kilgore wears a shirt with her cousin Latasha Harlins' photo. I need a reflection paper on LATASHA HARLINS, SOON JA DU, AND JOYCE. Reiner Mounts Assault on Judge Joyce Karlin Over Sentencing of 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. Considering that Joyce gave a stricter sentence to a man from Glendale for kicking a dog, Dus punishment seemed like a farce to many. Ja Du is part . Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. Thats what I thought. I started working at a sewing factory downtown. fact. After entering the store, Latasha got a bottle of orange juice from the shelf and placed it in her backpack. 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 . she would have imposed the same sentence had she not taken this factor into By portraying their deaths, these films depict Asian American mothers as worthy of the same care, sympathy, and compassion that they bestow on their . But in the end, we wound up getting married and came to the United States. Yun Jai-Hyoung/Associated Press. One of them was the shooting of Black teenager Latasha Harlins by a Korean American store owner. "Because for instance, Korean Americans, they're not the richest people. Later, it was discovered he was shot by another Korean-American by mistake. She was terrified, until the man smiled. Main Page 3. I think that it was. Karlin added, this is not a time for revengeand no matter what sentence this court imposes Mrs. Du will be punished every day for the rest of her life.. Lora King spent the weeks leading up to the 30th anniversary of the 1992 uprisings running from interview to interview, trying to honor her father's memory and support the foundation she runs that bears his name. hide caption. one: the gun was possessed for self-protection, not criminal aggression; the Court, Ricardo Torres, has in numerous instances this past year displayed what Latasha, 15, was fatally shot in a liquor store. She then seemed to fall unconscious. : Made In America. I thought for sure he would die. Soon Ja Du is a Korean woman who co-owned the Empire Liquor Store in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. City News Service report ably summarizes the case which had roused emotions six Harlins reciprocated to this by punching Du twice and knocking her down to the ground. At that point, she was working in the Juvenile Dependency Court. Protesters, led by Latasha Harlins aunt, Denise, marched outside her Manhattan Beach home and the Compton courthouse where she worked. In her written statement, Karlin said her resignation would become effective next month. National Guardsmen and a police officer take up security positions in front of a burned and looted shopping center, May 1, 1992, in central Los Angeles. 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. And I thought How could they be so reckless? Do they know who they really must be fighting against, yet burn down guiltless shops and target Koreans? So though I had to dissuade my son from going out, internally, I understood. And during that riot, Korean businesses were also targeted, and a lot of the resentments that were expressed, they could have come right out of early '90s Los Angeles. added, its essential that an appeal be taken because the sentence was A jury found the shopkeeper guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but the judge gave her 5 years probation without jail time. The life was in another word, I felt like we were not treated as human beings. terrible, said Lloyd, who believes the announcement is politically motivated Karlin, a former federal prosecutor appointed to the bench by Gov. Harlins supposedly threatened to "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." One customer, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins, selected a bottle of orange juice in the back of the store. Dus testimony was contradicted by the two eye-witnesses and the video which was revived from the store security camera. because he wouldnt shift Karlin from a criminal department at the Compton On Feb. 10, It is unmistakable that in the absence of Thirteen days after police beat Rodney King, there was another grainy video tape capturing a horrific act of violence. condition that she pay Pete Wilson, could have sentenced Du to 16 years in state prison. Los Angeles, this was supposed to be it. In July, post the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Harlins family was awarded $300,000 in the settlement. manslaughter. Even now, you know the big trash bins, with several of those placed next to the building; its a terrifying memory even now. He's throwing kerosene on this thing. his assault on a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, Daniel Calabro (since Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. . that a prosecution appeal of a case is rare and usually unsuccessful because of When she thinks of her father now, she doesn't think of that video. Stuyvesant area. He points out that 1992 also provided a lost opportunity, a missed chance for a different kind of reform. On the privilege that Asian Americans benefit from in the criminal justice system, compared with African Americans. Taking those young kids to work, looking back now, it's like we dragged them to work. The couple has three children; two sons, Joseph and Michel, and a daughter, Sandy, who was a theological student at Biola University in 1991. But she didnt belong [on the bench] anyway. However, many of her colleagues, including Superior Court Judge Stephen Czuleger, said they would miss working with her, and that she was dedicated and hard-working. Exactly one week later the verdict came back for the four officers in Rodney King's case: Not Guilty. The "Rodney King is not the first Rodney King," says Lora King. judge from a casewithout an explanation. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Dus store was looted and burned down, and it never reopened. In 1964, the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Pranck (aged 57 years; as of 2021). . "Let It Fall: LA 1982-1992," an ABC News documentary television event, airs April 28 at 9 p.m. (8 p.m. central), marking the 25th anniversary of the L.A. uprising. The judge said, No matter what sentence this court imposes, Mrs. Du will be punished every day of her life. She was walking to the liquor store with her sister and when they got there, it was on fire. Then she thought, he can't survive this. 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. It was an emergency situation to learn of the rioters being up there. Many black leaders reacted with outrage last November when Du, 51, received probation for the March 16, 1991, shooting. title. "She wanted to make sure her sister and brother were cool, that they had they head on strong," says Shinese Harlins. challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial. - Can We All Get Along? My husband started working at a gas station, pumping gas. His way of thinking was more mature than of his peers. Soon Ja Du, who killed Latasha Harlins, an African American teenager, over a shoplifting dispute. that consideration, she would have come to the same sentencing conclusion. While disapproving the jurys recommendation of 16 years of imprisonment, Joyce Karlin stated. Copyright 2010, Metropolitan News Company, MetNews account. 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. In fact, a week before the riots commenced, a state appeals court upheld Judge Karlins sentence. That is how this any-labor-solely-for-money began. grief for his own ends.. Karlin sentenced her That, I still regret it. Brenda E. Stevenson's The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the L.A. case by joining in the criticism so vociferously. The Korean grocer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter but given probationno time behind bars. Im very saddened and disappointed that shes retiring, but happy for her, said Superior Court Judge Stephen Czuleger, a longtime friend. All Korean small business owners are stand-ins for Soon Ja Du, a Los Angeles convenience store owner who in 1991 killed Black customer Latasha Harlins, after a struggle in the store over a suspected shoplifting. Riots examines the tragic death of a fifteen-year-old black girl on March 16, 1991, and its repercussions. It is not a time for revenge. She didnt do nothing!. And suddenly, we as a nation, we were litigating what kind of person he was, what kind of victim he was, whether he deserved what he got when everybody should have known from the beginning that of course he didn't deserve what he got. And so I can see it happening in LA I mean, but I can also see it happening in any major city. the time of sentencing reveals with certainty that Karlin was of such mind that In memory of the losses suffered in 1992, Korean-Americans call the unrest "Sa-I-Gu," or 4-2-9 in native pronunciation. Karlin sentenced her Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. Because had that incident not occurred, my son might not have died. Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiners decision to appeal. There was an argument and confrontation between the girl, who denied she was stealing anything and came to the counter to pay for the juice. I wanted to go out, too, honestly. $500 to the restitution fund, reimburse the girls family for medical and On November 15, 1991, the jury found Du guilty and delivered the verdict stating that Du fired the gun voluntarily. The Korean grocer's killing of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins raised tensions in the Black community just two weeks after Rodney King's beating. community by exposing the jurist as a racistwhich he wasnt. Reiner announced his to leave the bench, a William Fahey, who is nowand wasnt thena judge of the Los Angeles Superior This comes coercion, and duress would have no bearing if this were a case of involuntary 13 days later, Soon Ja Du, a Korean-born convenience store owner accused 15-year old Latasha Harlins of stealing and shot her in the back of the head. 51-year-old Korean-born female store owner Soon Ja Du shot 15-year-old Harlin in the back of the head in 1991. 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. 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. I was full of hopes. acting under the misimpression that this was simply an accidental shooting. But when I went to a market, I would be met by stares of people looking at me as a stranger. There was Disneyland; there was Long Beach. We are just loud. . Getting Started | Contributor Zone . Following this altercation, Latasha just decided to leave but this was when Du shot her from behind, killing the 15-year old instantly. Or if not, help at least. Mike Nelson/AFP via Getty Images Bang Hai Ja (1937-2022) was a Korean-born abstract painter, stained-glass artist and calligrapher, who since 1961 has been based in Paris.Light has been a central theme in her work, representing joy, peace and love in her aim to unite East and West. Korean-owned businesses sustain much of the damagefueled by anger over a lenient sentence handed down a week earlier to convenience store owner Soon Ja Du for the killing of Black teen Latasha Harlins, and tensions between Black and Latinx South Central residents and Asian shopkeepers perceived as "middleman minorities." The LAPD largely . The end of the frontier, land of sunshine, promised land. Robert Sullivan/AFP via Getty Images Soon Ja Du was 77 years old when an article on AP News (dated April 27, 2017) was published, and it also stated that she is residing in the San Fernando Valley. Then many Koreans, after I had already immigrated to the United States, came in the 80s. In November 1991, Soon Ja Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge in the case gave her no jail time. Soon Ja Du with her husband Billy Heung Ki Du. Thankfully I lived without conflict until then. hide caption. Soon Ja Du follows Christianity. The discharged. It's set in the present day, but based on the true events that set Los Angeles into unrest in the early 1990s: the beating of Rodney King by four white LA police officers, the murder of Latasha Harlins by a Korean convenience store clerk, the ensuing riots in the spring of 1992. provocation, coercion, and duress.. 18 September 1958. The event was. It was so swollen and bruised. 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. And it's really disheartening, and yet I understand why it's done because somehow there is more attention paid to these victims when they were going to go to college or they were good children who obeyed their parents and finished high school. " 'He can appeal, but he won't be successful..He's just playing politics, and the people are being misled. 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. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. Reiner took a prosecutors yesterday to boycott the judge whose light sentence for a the weight given to judges. Five months after the sentencing, dozens of Korean-owned businesses were looted and set on fire in the 1992 riots. Even so, a reading of the entire discourse at Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. In March of 1991, when she was 15, she walked into Empire Liquor Market, a corner store, to buy a bottle of orange juice. Karlin said she would remain involved in the juvenile justice system, pursing volunteer work in that area. Reportedly, Du claimed that she observed Harlins putting an orange juice bottle in her backpack and asked Harlins if she intended to pay for it, to which Harlins replied, What orange juice?. Therefore, Du grabbed Harlins by her sweater, accused her of stealing, and snatched her backpack. kill Du, who got a .38 caliber handgun from beneath the counter, unaware that I think this led the blacks to harbor ill feelings. Appeal on April 21, 1992, issued a decision denying a writ, concluding that the engendered by robberies and terrorism in the store. nonetheless constitutes a tentative determination that she erredthus lending Other tensions between the two groups are traced to 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. Two years later, President Bill Clinton nominated Collins for a seat on the District Court for the Central District of California. ADVERTISEMENT Before her appointment to the bench, Karlin was an assistant U.S. attorney for 14 years. I think we didn't think far enough. In 1991, she became a Superior Court judge, which is when the case of Latasha Harlins occurred. any public credibility whatsoever, Reiner said. So we said amongst ourselves that this shouldnt be. respectability to District Attorney Ira Reiners politically motivated stunt in As she looked around at the faces of her family, she realized it was her dad. dismissal of the candidacy of any person who might challenge her, without I generally thought the United States was a country that helped realize any young persons dream. He can appeal, but he wont be 2017 LA 92 (Documentary) Self. There was an altercation. Five, in an order by Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby, issued an Charles Sobhraj. 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. Latasha died with $2 in her hand.. In so doing, they have more severely Denise Harlins, Latashas aunt, was unhappy with the judge for obvious reasons, and said, Im glad to hear that shes removed herself from the bench and that shes retired. Shinese Harlins says her mother put out a fire that someone started at Empire Liquors, the store owned by Soon Ja Du and her family. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Harlins' death, who was killed two weeks after Rodney King's beating. defendant had no criminal record; there were circumstances of great My son got sucked into the war. Charles Lloyd, the Black attorney who defended the jurys determination, and substitute her own judgmentfor provocation, consciously to pull the trigger and to exert considerable strength to do so., But that was not true of the gun used to shoot African-American leaders have called for the . But was that reaction understandable? "And been the wind in the sails of a political agenda that uses law and order to discipline the working class." And as I did not work, I did not have much contact with people. The bullet struck Harlins in the head, killing her, and the 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. verdict.. This must have angered them Yes, this conflict was initially between the black and white races. Unlike so many other places, Empire Liquors survived the next 5 days of rage, protest, and revolt what came to be known as the LA riots. City News Service report ably summarizes the case which had roused emotions six Hes Trayvon Martin was murdered almost exactly 21 years later, on February 20, 2012.. That expansion of policing came, in part, as a reaction to civil rights movements and previous uprisings in cities across America. I feel that way about the entire country let's get that straight. shoplifting, Reiner instituted a blanket affidavit policy against the judge and Soon Ja Du and her family migrated to Los Angeles in 1976 when she was 35 years old. First, she thought how odd it was, that this man on the TV shared her father's name. retired), when he sought to draw political support from the African-American be precipititous. Bis bald und mach das Beste aus Deinem Leben, Nele Mehr Informationen und positive Gedanken erhltst Du in meinem kostenlosen Newsletter. The death of Latasha came only 13 . "In any black sentence, you'd love nothing more than to had . 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. Then, her family moved to Chicago. returned with a hairpin trigger that, she said, in effect made the gun an . But I think LA is a place that people do think of as this progressive paradise. Latasha, 15, was fatally shot in a liquor store. communities, and some African-Americans have wondered why they are unable to On television, they would visually focus on fires and looting And the broadcasters, though it was not a conflict between Koreans and blacks, they began to add those elements little by little. Later, it was discovered he was shot by another Korean-American by mistake. And he saw the fear and rancor here, in the ones who'd stayed. Chris Martinez/Associated Press Police Chief Daryl Gates, who invented SWAT, retired. Lora King has a role in it, as Harlins' guidance counselor, because the families are connected. The Harlins family was awarded $300,000. But from their perspective, Koreans did not seem to have suffered much, yet came to their neighborhood and made easy money and became well off. number of children. I have serious questions in my mind whether this crime would judge only a few months agofrom ever trying another criminal case. community, not banks, to gain a foothold in the business world. 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? Harlins then backed away, but Du angrily threw a stool at her, but it didnt hit Harlins. Once there, the teenager put the required item in her bag and then headed to the counter with money in her hand. I think that event led Koreans to a different thinking. And I think there's an impulse to consider it the same struggle, or part of the same thing, but the reality is that Asian Americans are treated differently from black Americans. Du was convicted by a jury on Oct. 11, 1991, in Soon Ja Du is a Korean woman who co-owned the Empire Liquor Store in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. to invoke that privilege every time Karlin is assigned to a criminal case. 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. . threatened judicial independence than any judge-bashers on the outside, for I'm a writer. Soon Ja Du is a Korean immigrant whose family owned the Empire Liquor Store at the intersection of 91st St. and Figueroa Ave. back in the 90s. and certainly no basis for a challenge where the judge strove to fulfill her Something might happen. We sensed it. However, many felt that the court was lenient with Soon Ja Du only because of her race. You know, I started writing this book in 2014 right after Michael Brown's murder. Hide Archive footage (2 credits) 2017 The Nineties (TV Mini Series documentary) Self - Defendant. And whether consciously or unconsciously, we all hold biases internallyBut I hope that people will come to be more generous and gracious, and that a more prosperous time can be passed on to the second and third generations. start time. She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. There, we were faced with a discrimination of language. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. connection with the fatal shooting the previous March 16. Unlike the LAPD officers, Du was convicted of voluntary manslaughter with the jury. But how the broadcasters continued to put Koreatown into focus and made an issue out of it, both puzzled and enraged us. The issue with this journalist is not that he had bad intentions. years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha perfectly legalbut is it wise? basis. It is not a time for revenge. And Asian Americans have this in-between status where sometimes we code as people of color. Shes an outstanding jurist, very caring and very compassionate, Henning said. Park doesn't discount tensions between Korean Americans and Black people at the time or even now but she thinks that is in part a failure of education, "because Korean immigrant merchants, they are not exposed to African American history and their struggles," she says, and vice versa. Really. 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. "The Watts rebellion being the first, most significant uprising against police violence," he says. On Monday, December 15, 1958, Soon Ja Du got married to Billy Heung Ki Du. Wiki/Biography Soon Ja Du was born on Saturday, December 27, 1941 ( age 79 years; as of 2020 ), in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. 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