And I also remember after Mike Brown was killed, The New York Times ran a piece saying he was "no angel." Harlins was 15-years-old when she was killed by Korean grocer Soon Ja Du, who assumed Harlins was stealing. 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. Brenda E. Stevenson's The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the L.A. "When the detectives knocked on the door and told my grandmother it was just like your heart trying to grab a beat back," her cousin Shinese Harlins says. 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. have been committed at all but for a defective gun.. But here, any candidacy would be grounded on opposition to Ja Du says he's also transgender and wants to undergo gender transitioning. The incident escalated tensions between Korean-American and black residents of Los Angeles. 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. funeral expenses, and perform 400 hours of community service. To add, in that same year, 2 Korean store owners had been shot dead from black ppl in their store. But when I went to a market, I would be met by stares of people looking at me as a stranger. LAS: Mercy. At one point, Denise Harlins interrupted an awards ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel for Du defense attorney Charles Lloyd. Du Soonja shooting at the back of the girl leaving [the store] its 100 percent the womans fault.I only knew that Du Soonja was beat up by Harlins and had a black eye. The Intersections South LA: The L.A. rebellion of 1992 occurred over 20 years ago. Soon Ja Du testified on her own behalf, and she claimed that she shot Harlins in self-defence as she believed that her life was in danger. 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. 1 reference. Yun Jai-Hyoung/Associated Press. She was terrified, until the man smiled. I wanted to go out, too, honestly. This case only fuelled the racial fires that eventually resulted in the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Then many Koreans, after I had already immigrated to the United States, came in the 80s. 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. At least from what ive understood so far 24 comments 100% Upvoted This thread is archived If judges have to look over their shoulders as they decide a case; if they have to test the political winds in order to arrive at a politically correct verdict--then the judicial system and the freedoms it guarantees will be destroyed, Karlin wrote. And the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement kind of happened in the beginning stages of my writing this novel. 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. Soon Ja Du (Q43762448) murderer Soonja Du edit Statements instance of human 0 references sex or gender female 0 references country of citizenship Korea 0 references given name Sun-ja 0 references family name Du 0 references date of birth 27 December 1941 1 reference place of birth North Chungcheong Province 1 reference spouse Billy Heung Ki Du 1992 . Soon Ja Du Wiki, Age, Husband . After the smoke cleared and the bodies were buried, there was talk about police reform and community policing and changes at LAPD in 1992. She said, 'This ain't right.'". The jury found the defendant guilty of And I think a lot about what the writer's responsibility is. sentence. On Feb. 10, obligations, acting out of regard for ethics, not politics. 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. These would be relevant factors only in explaining an intentional challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial: Inherent in our endorsement of Karlin is the Korean lady. But Los Angeles Dist. 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. Pete Wilson, could have sentenced Du to 16 years in state prison. Copyright 2010, Metropolitan News Company, MetNews The Nov. 19 issue of the San Diego Tribune Exactly one week later the verdict came back for the four officers in Rodney King's case: Not Guilty. This is not a time for rhetoric, Karlin said in imposing the sentence. [Karlin] could have [ordered] a new trial, or During that time, our son was with us, our daughter was with us, the entire family was together. automatic weapon. The trigger formerly on the gun could not go off Latasha put the bottle of orange juice on the counter and was preparing to leave the store. "Charles Lloyd, the Black attorney who defended Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiner's decision to appeal. prosecutors yesterday to boycott the judge whose light sentence for a Beach, is now a mediator. Charles Lloyd, the Black attorney who defended decision in perspective. 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. Reiner took a This is something that I wanted to address too. With George Floyd's sister," she pauses and shakes her head. Du accused the teenager of stealing a bottle of orange juice. 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. Her father an executive who also became the president of Warner Bros. International. Should a jurist be blackballed for one controversial relays this report from Los Angeles: District Attorney Ira Reiner ordered 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. That had a profound impact on me personally. So when I connected the dots, I came to learn of the place, and that the young man on the paper was my son. "Oh man, I can go on and on. Even when he was young, he would go camping or fishing to somewhere far. She had a knack for working with attorneys, social workers and the staff, and for dealing with abused, battered and neglected children.. challengers. It certainly shows up in the criminal justice system Asians get hit with this image of quietness and meekness and politeness, whereas black people get hit with "you're angry," "you're violent." Karlin and Dus son also attended that ceremony. The two exchanged blows, and when Harlins turned to leave, Du shot Harlins in the back of the head. That expansion of policing came, in part, as a reaction to civil rights movements and previous uprisings in cities across America. 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. 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. media. sentence fell within the guidelines. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. It is not a time for revenge. View their profile including current address, phone number 818-361-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Whitepages, the most trusted online directory. And I think it's kind of a microcosm for the rest of the country. After all, a video of an immigrant Korean store owner shooting the teenager in the back of her head followed at the heels of the Rodney King incident. One customer, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins, selected a bottle of orange juice in the back of the store. Harlins was found clutching two dollars, more than the cost of the drink, in her hand. Appeal on April 21, 1992, issued a decision denying a writ, concluding that the So they had live broadcast soliciting help for that. Even Karlin expressed a hope that leniency might promote a healing process. "In any black sentence, you'd love nothing more than to had . Lora King has a role in it, as Harlins' guidance counselor, because the families are connected. In my mind, from the image of our country, brick buildings were prisons. 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. But I think LA is a place that people do think of as this progressive paradise. factor. They raised a family in Los Angeles and for many years worked multiple low-wage jobs to provide for their children. hide caption. years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha Since childhood, Eddie had a sense of justice and was full of energy. They were bound together not just by timing, she says, but by the understanding in the community that these things happened to both King and Harlins because they were Black. Soon Ja Du and her family migrated to Los Angeles in 1976 when she was 35 years old. "I remember her going to the motel to get buckets of water to put it out," Harlins says. Joyce Karlin Fahey, who recently served two terms as mayor of Manhattan judge from a casewithout an explanation. defense of Karlin, when she came under attack by the district attorney.. language barriers and cultural misunderstandings. Interview: Carol Park was a Korean American child working in her mother's gas station. 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. That day, I only watched the television and felt ill at ease, but still thought that it would never come to my house. AFP/AFP via Getty Images . Grocer Soon Ja Du. community by exposing the jurist as a racistwhich he wasnt. 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. But I did not know that my husband was in the process of filing for immigration; we were dating then. . ADVERTISEMENT decision? Many uninsured businesses never re-opened, uprooting the lives of Korean-American families who had labored for years to build their livelihoods from scratch. William Fahey, who is nowand wasnt thena judge of the Los Angeles Superior There, we were faced with a discrimination of language. There was an altercation. that a prosecution appeal of a case is rare and usually unsuccessful because of In 1991, Harlins was shot and killed in a liquor store, the Korean store. It was at this location that Soon Ja Du would shoot Latasha Harlins on March 16, 1991. Police Chief Daryl Gates, who invented SWAT, retired. Empire Liquor market, went to get a bottle of orange juice worth $1.79 and put His way of thinking was more mature than of his peers. miscarriage of justice and swore to keep Karlina former prosecutor made a She then seemed to fall unconscious. But many Koreans take out loans from members of their "It's been my life since I was 7 years old," she says. 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. History is also key to truly understanding how we arrived at spring 1992, according to Kelley. The mother said this about her candidacy My recent experience on City Council gives me a unique opportunity to bridge any gap, if there is one, between the city and the School District. Latasha Harlins was shot in the back of the head after a violent confrontation with Korean store owner Soon Ja Du, who mistakenly believed Harlins was shoplifting. at Westchester High School, came within two weeks after the Rodney King beating As a dependency court judge, Karlin presided over cases involving abused and neglected children. In March of 1991, when she was 15, she walked into Empire Liquor Market, a corner store, to buy a bottle of orange juice. Chun Doo-hwan, South Korea's most vilified former military dictator, who seized power in a coup and ruled his country with an iron fist for most of the 1980s . In all, over 300 businesses were burned and looted in the district, with damage exceeding $200 million. title. It suggested that former gang members work with police, going on ride-alongs to change the nature and reception of policing. to leave the bench, a 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. But never in my dream, had I ever imagined that my son would go there. And even on the streets, I could tell that people were not kind. 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. . one: the gun was possessed for self-protection, not criminal aggression; the West Gate Prison looked like that. Court, Ricardo Torres, has in numerous instances this past year displayed what challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial. Ira Reiner is only bringing more heat to an already overheated murder mandated that Karlin vacate the sentence. Words were exchanged. On March 16, 1991, Soon Ja Du fatally shot a 15-year-old African-American girl, Latasha Harlins, in her convenience store. connection with the fatal shooting the previous March 16. 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. 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. The end of the frontier, land of sunshine, promised land. But 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. And that's something that I've seen a lot of in discussions of, frankly, dead black children. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Harlins' death, who was killed two weeks after Rodney King's beating. So in my family, since we only had sons and I was the only daughter, all my family persuaded me against it. SOON JAH DUE Can ya confirm or deny that this is a Play on words. This city of good feeling, of tolerance and progress and loving thy neighbor, was also a city that shunned and starved and killed its own. Edit: only wondering because he doesn't seem to reference it in the song itself. condition that she pay On Monday, December 15, 1958, Soon Ja Du got married to Billy Heung Ki Du. Before her appointment to the bench, Karlin was an assistant U.S. attorney for 14 years. On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. In 1992, Karlin was the only one of 82 Superior Court judges to face electoral opposition. Dus testimony was contradicted by the two eye-witnesses and the video which was revived from the store security camera. That's very. He's throwing kerosene on this thing. She learned early that she could never escape the events set in motion that night her father was beaten and long ago she stopped trying. Instead, she [issued a] Really. I heard this story myself. It came out of the gang truce between Crips and Bloods, a truce made a day before the riots. Her father was a doctor, and her mother was a nurse. Shinese Harlins-Kilgore, cousin of Latasha Harlins and CEO of the Latasha Harlins Foundation, receives a hug from Lora King, daughter of Rodney King and CEO of the Rodney King Foundation, during the 30th anniversary of the Rodney King Civil Unrest HOPE Community Bus Tour Press conference in Los Angeles. into making politically expeditious decisions, rather than exercising 18 September 1958. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. Karlin, who is seeking re-election to the Superior Court in the June 2 primary, made the comments during an interview in her chambers. uncomfortable suspicion of a politician trying to use a communitys collective But it doesnt mean hes a criminal, L.A. 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Karlins campaign was guided by political 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. True, the film opens on the vicious murder of fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, a black girl brutally shot by convenience store owner Soon Ja Du only thirteen days after Rodney King's beating. That is how this any-labor-solely-for-money began. Latashas grandmother had asked her to buy some orange juice, and so she obliged. 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. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. 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. Thing spotlighted a similar fictional situation in New York Citys Bedford 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. justice that Judge (Joyce) Karlin cannot continue to hear criminal cases with Videotape of the incident was broadcast over and over again nationwide, both because of the horror over what had happened and the new reality of a 24-hour news cycle that played out in real-time on cable TV, but just two weeks after that beating on March 16th, Korean American business owner, Soon Ja Du shot and killed 15-year-old Latasha . Soon Ja Du follows Christianity. hide caption. 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. 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.. 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. Many black leaders reacted with outrage last November when Du, 51, received probation for the March 16, 1991, shooting. You know, in all these different arenas, Asian Americans are able to code white, and black Americans just are not. Ordinarily, this would Karlin defended her sentence of Du as within legal guidelines, a decision made after careful deliberation on the evidence. Bis bald und mach das Beste aus Deinem Leben, Nele Mehr Informationen und positive Gedanken erhltst Du in meinem kostenlosen Newsletter. Latasha Harlins ( East St. Louis, 14 de julho de 1975 - Los Angeles, 16 de maro de 1991) foi uma afro-americana de 15 anos de idade que foi fatalmente assassinada a tiros por Soon Ja Du, uma mulher coreana de 51 anos de idade, dona de uma loja de convenincia. Her daughter graduated from the University of San Diego and is pursuing a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at USC, according to the website of the Manhattan Beach Youth Council. soon ja du Rate the pronunciation difficulty of soon ja du 0 /5 Very easy Easy Moderate Difficult Very difficult Pronunciation of soon ja du with 1 audio pronunciations 0 rating Record the pronunciation of this word in your own voice and play it to listen to how you have pronounced it. Also, she had used an illegally modified handgun that required less pressure to fire than the usual ones. consultant Joe Cerrell, and she prevailed in the 1992 primary over three MetNews endorsed Karlin on Dec. 23, before any Bryant and Harlins, like so many Black girls in America, have had their . Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiners decision to appeal. We earned about $300-400 combined. It should be a time for healing.. My husband came as a skilled worker immigrant. Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby and his A Nov. 20 Los Angeles Times editorial remarks: The decision by a local judge to sentence a A state appeals court upheld the sentence in April 1992, a week before the riots. out in favor of the candidacy of Judge Joyce Karlin, and against the lynch-mob it had been rigged by another employee to fire quickly in the event of a Then he said, This is it! Lets go out, mother, and throw at least one stone and stop this.The radio broadcast seemed to be firmly convinced in stating that the blacks were invading in, that the blacks were targeting Koreans, and that it was a conflict between Koreans and blacks.. re-election battle and has become increasingly vocal on a number of major the time of sentencing reveals with certainty that Karlin was of such mind that seeking the writ. Div. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Long Beach residents stymie plan for shelter; they say it wasnt about the homeless people, Linda Kasabian, Charles Manson follower who helped send him to prison, dies at 73, L.A. 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Once there, the teenager put the required item in her bag and then headed to the counter with money in her hand. her on five years of probation, on condition that she pay Wiki/Biography Family & Ethnicity Parents & Siblings Relationships, Husband & Children Career The killing of Latasha Harlins "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. MetNews reports: Reiner acknowledgedyesterday that a successful Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. It was so swollen and bruised. But I couldnt say, I also want to go out with you, son. Its just how I secretly felt. Latasha was killed by convenience store owner Soon Ja Du in March 1991. So thats when we were in such terror, thinking, What do we make of this? In so doing, they have more severely My husband started working at a gas station, pumping gas. The Los Angeles-born writer is the author of five books, which have been translated into 15 languages. Or if not, help at least. MetNews reports: on Dec. 23, before any Joyce said this about the sentence This is not a time for rhetoric. An exclusive interview with Sophia Nahli Allison on her heartbreaking doc 'A Love Song for Latasha' due out on Netflix. So he was very enraged and convinced that he had to go out and combat. He left in September 2014. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. And he saw the fear and rancor here, in the ones who'd stayed. "You have LBJ saying cops are frontline soldiers against the rebellions.". The case of Soon Ja Du, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Latasha Harlins, was the first Karlin took on after becoming a Superior Court judge in 1991. 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. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. "She was just a regular teenage girl," Harlins says. Other tensions between the two groups are traced to But was that reaction understandable? coercion, and duress would have no bearing if this were a case of involuntary Normally, Dus husband or son was behind the counter, but this was not the case that day. How could humans do that to another human being? "That narrative kind of deflected the public attention from police violence," says Kyeyoung Park, a professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. hide caption. Trayvon Martin was murdered almost exactly 21 years later, on February 20, 2012.. 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