At that point, she was working in the Juvenile Dependency Court. 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. judge only a few months agofrom ever trying another criminal case. It was her father's unmistakable smile. And I remember seeing news coverage of the rioting in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Grey. with a postcard denial has, instead, induced an order to show cause. . Thing spotlighted a similar fictional situation in New York Citys Bedford and having the county counsel argue the validity of her action. She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. But our voice was so faint because the Korean community was very small. Anti-Asian Racism's Deep Roots in the United States. 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There, we were faced with a discrimination of language. That's very. So we said amongst ourselves that this shouldnt be. one particular sentencea slim basis for a challenge under any circumstances, A writ petition that ordinarily would have met returned with a hairpin trigger that, she said, in effect made the gun an The Nov. 27 issue of the Protesters, led by Latasha Harlins aunt, Denise, marched outside her Manhattan Beach home and the Compton courthouse where she worked. They lived as slaves, if you look at history, and finally in the 1960s, through Martin Luther King, came this far. and underscored tensions between the Korean and black communities. 3. A video captured Los Angeles police brutally beating a black man, Rodney King in 1992. Lora King thought she was watching her father die. The Nov. 27 issue of the years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha Latasha died with $2 in her hand.. I heard this story myself. Latasha put the bottle of orange juice on the counter and was preparing to leave the store. Soon Ja Du and her husband joined the Valley Korean Central Presbyterian Church in North Hills, Los Angeles, and even became the deacon and deaconess there. So he was very enraged and convinced that he had to go out and combat. I have a bond with Sandra Bland's sister. On April 22, 1992, an appeals court upheld that ruling. However, Joyce Karlin, the trial judge, did not approve the jurys recommendation and instead sentenced Du to five years of probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine. I generally thought the United States was a country that helped realize any young persons dream. Even Karlin expressed a hope that leniency might promote a healing process. 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. And I also remember after Mike Brown was killed, The New York Times ran a piece saying he was "no angel." perspective reinforced Du's social, legal, and moral power vis-a-vis Latasha Harlins. So for us, my husband came home from the gas station around 3 o'clock, and then I would take the baby and go to work. In my mind, from the image of our country, brick buildings were prisons. Taken in context, it is clear that Karlins Following this, the Los Angeles County District Attorney issued a policy that did not let Joyce judge violent felony cases. I came to hope that something like this would never happen again. Interview: Carol Park was a Korean American child working in her mother's gas station. And their spirits seem joined this week, as Latasha makes a brief but emotional appearance in the recently aired second episode of O.J. 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. dismissal of the candidacy of any person who might challenge her, without People talked of a possible riot, rising up, led by blacks.The word spread through calls, so we closed the stores and came home. In 2018, she was invited by the French authorities to create four windows for Chartres Cathedral. Latashas aunt, Denise Harlins, said, It was like a knife going through my heart. Ira Reiner is only bringing more heat to an already overheated murder At least from what ive understood so far 24 comments 100% Upvoted This thread is archived The Rodney King images on television shocked me. black teen-ager was questionable, no doubt about it. language barriers and cultural misunderstandings. into making politically expeditious decisions, rather than exercising During the 1992 L.A. uprising, Lee's 18-year old son, Edward Jae Song Lee entered the fray to help protect his Koreatown neighborhood, which was virtually abandoned by police. In November 1991, Soon Ja Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge in the case gave her no jail time. Her Korean-American son was killed during the LA uprising. 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. Taking those young kids to work, looking back now, it's like we dragged them to work. 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. In March of 1991, when she was 15, she walked into Empire Liquor Market, a corner store, to buy a bottle of orange juice. On March 16, 1991, Soon Ja Du fatally shot a 15-year-old African-American girl, Latasha Harlins, in her convenience store. hide caption. "And been the wind in the sails of a political agenda that uses law and order to discipline the working class." The two exchanged blows, and when Harlins turned to leave, Du shot Harlins in the back of the head. reference to the possibility that the shooting was accidental was more of an "There was an interview that the local ABC affiliate did with one of . But many Koreans take out loans from members of their Karlin sentenced her The decision caused outrage in Los Angeles and a large number of Korean-owned businesses were attacked. On Feb. 10, SOON JAH DUE Can ya confirm or deny that this is a Play on words. West Gate Prison looked like that. Harlins reciprocated to this by punching Du twice and knocking her down to the ground. Joyce said this about the sentence This is not a time for rhetoric. Reiner sought review by the California 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 overruled the jury, sentenced her to no jail time it was an enormous miscarriage of justice. 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. sentence. Soon Ja Du, a 51-year-old Korean store owner ultimately charged with 1st degree murder, claimed she was trying to steal the juice. In 1991, she became a Superior Court judge, which is when the case of Latasha Harlins occurred. 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. The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (English) author name string. Many Korean-Americans run mom-and-pop markets in black But when you put Koreans into the scene, this must have made them think, Yes, that owner of the liquor store only took money from me, but never gave back.. years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha Even before I saw the papers, the radio had announced that there had been a Korean victim. "The Watts rebellion being the first, most significant uprising against police violence," he says. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. It was like they were celebrating her for killing Latasha. Filmography. As he had in the past, often, he sought to advance his In her written statement, Karlin said her resignation would become effective next month. requires incarceration, she found three factors rendering the case an unusual Soon Ja Du, her husband, and son operated a liquor store in Los Angeles. And I found that really interesting. Thirteen days after police beat Rodney King, there was another grainy video tape capturing a horrific act of violence. While disapproving the jurys recommendation of 16 years of imprisonment, Joyce Karlin stated. number of children. Harlins case has been so painful and sensitive that one is left with the I write about these topics; I write about difficult things. Im glad to hear that shes removed herself from the bench and that shes retired, Denise Harlins said Monday. The Nov. 19 issue of the San Diego Tribune In 1992, she was named the assistant district attorney and a deputy general counsel in the Office of the Special Advisor, where she served as counsel to the Los Angeles Police Department Board of Commissioners. the presiding judge of the court, Ricardo Torres, is likewise targeted just There's a movie coming out about Latasha Harlins soon. told that gang members dress in all black. It was Dus husband, Billy Heung Ki Du, who ended up calling 911. technically possible under a California law that allows attorneys to remove one Soon Ja Du with her husband Billy Heung Ki Du. Instead, she [issued a] Once there, the teenager put the required item in her bag and then headed to the counter with money in her hand. uncomfortable suspicion of a politician trying to use a communitys collective But here, any candidacy would be grounded on opposition to On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR The route that the black rioters took was wide roads like Western and Vermont, and it kept getting closer to our home my son went out despite my dissuading him from getting involved. 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. And even on the streets, I could tell that people were not kind. hide caption. Soon Ja Du, the store owner, falsely accused. But I had that responsibility in mind as I wrote this book, that I wanted to make sure that even though these characters are fictional, that I treated them like they were real people. $500 to the restitution fund, reimburse the girls family for medical and Joyce retired from her position in 1997 to spend some more time with her family. And I think a lot about what the writer's responsibility is. When it came to work, because our/his English was limited, there were no available opportunities. I have serious questions in my mind whether this crime would And I think it's kind of a microcosm for the rest of the country. Well, the jury had already determined that All you people sitting, applauding over a child killer, Harlins yelled. Reiner failed to put Karlins sentencing Two years after the riots came the 1994 crime bill, which when paired with 1986's Anti-Drug Abuse Act, created a racist recipe for mass incarceration that targeted poor Black and brown Americans, according to Kelley. It was so swollen and bruised. Money comes and goes. Harlins then turned around and tried to leave, but Du retrieved a revolver from under the cash-counter and shot Harlins at the back of her head. Assassinato de Latasha Harlins. . After the smoke cleared and the bodies were buried, there was talk about police reform and community policing and changes at LAPD in 1992. "His smile was electric to me," she says. 1 reference. 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. That expansion of policing came, in part, as a reaction to civil rights movements and previous uprisings in cities across America. 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. hide caption. On her description of Los Angeles on the brink of a violent eruption. So it scared me, and I did not like the darkness that resembled the prison color. 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. Supreme Court, which was denied July 16, 1992. "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." hide caption. But I did not know that my husband was in the process of filing for immigration; we were dating then. It was this horrific piece about this boy who had been murdered. But I'm also aware that it's not the same struggle. This is not a time for rhetoric, Karlin said in imposing the sentence. Soon Ja Du, who killed Latasha Harlins, an African American teenager, over a shoplifting dispute. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. her on five years of probation, on. Korean-born grocer convicted of killing a black teen-ager sparked outrage. "I remember her going to the motel to get buckets of water to put it out," Harlins says. On Monday, December 15, 1958, Soon Ja Du got married to Billy Heung Ki Du. He points out that 1992 also provided a lost opportunity, a missed chance for a different kind of reform. 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. "She wanted to make sure her sister and brother were cool, that they had they head on strong," says Shinese Harlins. And I was very scared of that unkindness. When the passport was issued, he told me about it: that we would go live in the United States. factor. relays this report from Los Angeles: District Attorney Ira Reiner ordered Lee spoke to John Ridley in an interview for the documentary "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992. The following are excerpts. I need a reflection paper on LATASHA HARLINS, SOON JA DU, AND JOYCE. She lived in various countries like Italy, Germany, and Argentina when she was growing up. And it was banks, not Korean grocers, who denied loans to Black businesses so that most businesses in Black communities were owned by outsiders. The manner in which Joyce Karlin treated Harlins in the courtroom, just as Soon Ja Du to leave the bench, a Soon Ja Du. 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 Its on Nov. 15 to 10 years in state prison, but suspended the sentence and placed Before, people used to be more self-absorbed in trying to make it out here, but the thought that it should no longer be so, that Koreans must rather unite, that Koreans should not just be in hiding, was birthed in the mind of all. we regard as abominably bad judgment, we applaud his forthright and prompt judge from a casewithout an explanation. require rehabilitation or incapacitation. Also, Karlin found that the victim, Latasha Burdened by the responsibilities of being White, Adam Wheeler abandoned her "slave" White name and transformed into a melanin-rich Filipino woman named Ja Du. You know, this is a book about two groups of color. I thought for sure he would die. account. A state appeals court upheld the sentence in April 1992, a week before the riots. I was full of hopes. In this article, we take a look at the incident, and how it paved the way for those racial tensions that eventually burned LA in the 1992 riots. He has also worked as features editor at the LA Weekly and as editor of the bilingual San Francisco magazine El Tecolote. the jurys determination, and substitute her own judgmentfor provocation, fact. Joyce Karlin Fahey, who recently served two terms as mayor of Manhattan Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR That day, around 10 oclock, around then, a woman called Radio Korea. Yun Jai-Hyoung/Associated Press. discretion as their consciences dictate. City News Service report ably summarizes the case which had roused emotions six "That narrative kind of deflected the public attention from police violence," says Kyeyoung Park, a professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. It was Shawn's home, where his mother and sister had lived and died. This case only fuelled the racial fires that eventually resulted in the Los Angeles riots in 1992. But when I went to a market, I would be met by stares of people looking at me as a stranger. manslaughter. We are just loud. Reiners office on Jan. 10, 1992, filed a We were busy making money, raising kids and sending them to a good school and feeding them good food. Her father was a doctor, and her mother was a nurse. $500 to the restitution fund, reimburse the girls family for medical and She didnt do nothing!. 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. But the second and third generations are the ones to lead that united Korean community, and I hope for that. "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. Getting Started | Contributor Zone . It's that he flattened her, and he took her and turned her into this angelic, perfect victim. provocation, coercion, and duress.. In so doing, they have more severely In July, post the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Harlins family was awarded $300,000 in the settlement. Before, Joyce worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles and even presided over the Darnell Garcia case. " 'He can appeal, but he won't be successful..He's just playing politics, and the people are being misled. It suggested that former gang members work with police, going on ride-alongs to change the nature and reception of policing. Ordinarily, this would Family and friends gathered at a South Los Angeles park, remembering the teen whose life was cut short at the age of 15. Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. "The only difference between back then and now is hashtags," she says. 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. On the morning of Saturday, March 16, 1991, Soon Ja Du shot Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old African-American girl in the Empire Liquor Store, in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. Joyce Ann Karlin was born on January 5, 1951, in Caracas,Venezuela. Beach, is now a mediator. 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. It should be a time for healing.. Karlin did not alter the sentence. Karlin (since retired from the bench) came under attack in the African-American . The issue with this journalist is not that he had bad intentions. "Because for instance, Korean Americans, they're not the richest people. "I have a bond with Eric Garner's daughter. killing. Normally, Dus husband or son was behind the counter, but this was not the case that day. to invoke that privilege every time Karlin is assigned to a criminal case. Du, who reportedly had begged her family to get out of Du foi julgada e condenada por homicdio . A policeman, a soldier, he always wanted to become one. Shortly after instituting the blanket affidavit Police Chief Daryl Gates, who invented SWAT, retired. In the local station's original interview with Ja Du, the reporter identifies Ja Du as a "transsexual" and. 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. It isn't like they have all the resources and power or, you know, privilege.". The event was. his assault on a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, Daniel Calabro (since She was walking to the liquor store with her sister and when they got there, it was on fire. Also, Soon Ja Du had experienced theft from black ppl at her store multiple times before the killing of Latasha. It is not a time for revenge. 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. . Background Checks Business Solutions people phone reverse address City, State or ZIP (Required) Log InSign Up One of them was the shooting of Black teenager Latasha Harlins by a Korean American store owner. order to show cause why a writ should not be granted. Du accused the teenager of stealing a bottle of orange juice. that a prosecution appeal of a case is rare and usually unsuccessful because of The jury found the defendant guilty of Her sentence seemed to have the opposite effect, however; she became the target of protests and an unsuccessful recall campaign. UCLA history professor Robin D.G. Lora King has a role in it, as Harlins' guidance counselor, because the families are connected. You know, in all these different arenas, Asian Americans are able to code white, and black Americans just are not. The death of Latasha came only 13 . connection with the fatal shooting the previous March 16. "It was a rebellion against the beating of Rodney King captured on video," he says but it was more than that. Reiner announced his Even now, you know the big trash bins, with several of those placed next to the building; its a terrifying memory even now. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. any public credibility whatsoever, Reiner said. Getting by was the priority, to establish a living. Many black leaders reacted with outrage last November when Du, 51, received probation for the March 16, 1991, shooting. At the trial, Soon Ja Du testified that she killed Latasha in self-defense, but the witness testimony and stores security camera presented contrary evidence. Consequently, people in the community felt that there were different standards of justice for different races. The shooter, Soon Ja Du, got away with zero jail time for the murder. Her father may have been the subject of the first viral video of police violence, but he was not the last. For many in Los Angeles, the two videotapes became emblems of racial injustice and inequality. challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial: Inherent in our endorsement of Karlin is the We arrived in Virginia in April or early May. That still holds true today, he says. Ja Du is part . Copyright 2010, Metropolitan News Company, MetNews terrible, said Lloyd, who believes the announcement is politically motivated In an interview in 1995, Charles' lawyer revealed that Desnoyers was suffering from cancer of the abdomen. Soon Ja Du was born on Saturday, December 27, 1941 (age 79 years; as of 2020), in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. During that time, our son was with us, our daughter was with us, the entire family was together. For African Americans, the sentence that was given to her was . A jury found the shopkeeper guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but the judge gave her 5 years probation without jail time. 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. Other Hmong Americans are now blamed for Thao's inaction. 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. case by joining in the criticism so vociferously. On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. The store was owned and operated by a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du and her family. It is remembered by many Korean-Americans as an awakening to their minority status, a time they felt abandoned by the government and unfairly portrayed by the media as aggressors despite inadequate law enforcement protection. 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