Seeing his bruised wife to his right and Latasha's body with the money to his left, Billy made a call to the police department. It was this horrific piece about this boy who had been murdered. And that's something that I've seen a lot of in discussions of, frankly, dead black children. Karlins campaign was guided by political Copyright 2010, Metropolitan News Company, MetNews 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. kill Du, who got a .38 caliber handgun from beneath the counter, unaware that Koreans made money in black neighborhoods, lived in white neighborhoods, drove nice cars; even I would have been jealous of this And with the money they earned there, they should have served the community back, but they didnt. 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. 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. hide caption. Assassinato de Latasha Harlins. Reiner failed to put Karlins sentencing Here are 10 you cant miss, Rain check! discharged. The Harlins family was awarded $300,000. She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. Robert Sullivan/AFP via Getty Images "It's not only African Americans and Korean Americans," Park says. It came out of the gang truce between Crips and Bloods, a truce made a day before the riots. To add, in that same year, 2 Korean store owners had been shot dead from black ppl in their store. Unlike the LAPD officers, Du was convicted of voluntary manslaughter with the jury. Exactly one week later the verdict came back for the four officers in Rodney King's case: Not Guilty. basis. be precipititous. ADVERTISEMENT And the title is a reference to the killing of Latasha Harlins by Soon Ja Du. Charles Sobhraj. Those of us of the first generation, including myself and others, have no particular strength. The district attorney, who is facing a tough "That's when I realized it was bigger than what I can imagine," she says. mandated that Karlin vacate the sentence. Get more out of your subscription* Access to over 100 million course-specific study resources; 24/7 help from Expert Tutors on 140+ subjects; Full access to over 1 million Textbook Solutions; Subscribe Im glad to hear that shes removed herself from the bench and that shes retired, Denise Harlins said Monday. From that, we paid the rent, the electricity bill, and and I had not realized it then, but life was like a war Others came for studies, but for us, it was for survival, and we had not brought much money with us.we worked at places like Swap meet, cleaning jobs at night. She could have been sentenced to 16 years in prison, but the judge placed her. Thirty years ago, the 15-year-old Black girl from South Central walked into Empire Liquor Market and Deli, grabbed a $1.79 bottle of orange juice and put it in her backpack. threatened judicial independence than any judge-bashers on the outside, for 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. Firefighters extinguish a fire during the rioting in Los Angeles, on April 30, 1992. Or if not, help at least. "In any black sentence, you'd love nothing more than to had . I'm a writer. "The only difference between back then and now is hashtags," she says. 1 reference. This is not a time for rhetoric, Karlin said in imposing the sentence. decision? furor that will in all probability propel someone into challenging her at the 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. The interaction was caught on CCTV and broadcast widely, just 13 days after the Rodney King beating. When she saw him afterwards, she didn't recognize his face. Then, her family moved to Chicago. I started working at a sewing factory downtown. accidentally, Karlin said, and a woman of Mrs. Dus size would have to decide Soon Ja Du, who killed Latasha Harlins, an African American teenager, over a shoplifting dispute. In memory of the losses suffered in 1992, Korean-Americans call the unrest "Sa-I-Gu," or 4-2-9 in native pronunciation. 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. 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.. And it was banks, not Korean grocers, who denied loans to Black businesses so that most businesses in Black communities were owned by outsiders. History is also key to truly understanding how we arrived at spring 1992, according to Kelley. Police Chief Daryl Gates, who invented SWAT, retired. Mike Nelson/AFP via Getty Images 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. because he wouldnt shift Karlin from a criminal department at the Compton 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. 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 felt that black people were reaction to a conflict with white people by attacking Koreans. 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. The manner in which Joyce Karlin treated Harlins in the courtroom, just as Soon Ja Du Latashas aunt, Denise Harlins, said, It was like a knife going through my heart. "Because for instance, Korean Americans, they're not the richest people. Patrick Jarenwattananon adapted it for the Web. case by joining in the criticism so vociferously. His actions in this instance were reminiscent of Soon Ja Du, age 60s, lives in Los Angeles, CA. In Virginia, we couldnt even rent a room because of racial discrimination And later we realized that they had never seen Asians before. It wasn't a Korean jury that declared the four police officers not guilty in the beating of Rodney King. Then many Koreans, after I had already immigrated to the United States, came in the 80s. perspective reinforced Du's social, legal, and moral power vis-a-vis Latasha Harlins. It should be a time for healing.. As he had in the past, often, he sought to advance his That is how this any-labor-solely-for-money began. sentence. Reiners office on Jan. 10, 1992, filed a 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. Looking back, it was a hard life. The property later became a market under different ownership. kill this girl. 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. challenge of the Karlins sentence in the case would be a longshot. But, he She was terrified, until the man smiled. Chris Martinez/Associated Press 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. The Nov. 19 issue of the San Diego Tribune This is something that I wanted to address too. Karlin defended her sentence of Du as within legal guidelines, a decision made after careful deliberation on the evidence. 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 . When it came to work, because our/his English was limited, there were no available opportunities. Joyce Karlin Fahey, who recently served two terms as mayor of Manhattan Harlins reciprocated to this by punching Du twice and knocking her down to the ground. On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. title. — -- 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. automatic weapon. The trigger formerly on the gun could not go off The Once there, the teenager put the required item in her bag and then headed to the counter with money in her hand. In my mind, from the image of our country, brick buildings were prisons. "That narrative kind of deflected the public attention from police violence," says Kyeyoung Park, a professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Du insisted the girl was attempting to steal a $1.79 bottle of orange juice. And 15-year-old Harlins was shot and killed by Soon Ja Du at Empire Liquor in South Central Los Angeles on March 16, 1991. Latasha put the bottle of orange juice on the counter and was preparing to leave the store. Im very saddened and disappointed that shes retiring, but happy for her, said Superior Court Judge Stephen Czuleger, a longtime friend. UCLA history professor Robin D.G. At the time, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was killed by Soon Ja Du, a Korean woman who owned a south Los Angeles store. "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. 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. "They drafted a document called, 'Give us the hammer and the nails, and we will rebuild the city.'" 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.. 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. Harlins, was not especially vulnerable, having used her fists as weapons just : Made In America. The And I found that really interesting. Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. 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. It kind of depends on who's telling the story and what the story is. Thats what I thought. Also, Karlin found that the victim, Latasha A Nov. 20 Los Angeles Times editorial remarks: The decision by a local judge to sentence a But she didnt belong [on the bench] anyway.. at Westchester High School, came within two weeks after the Rodney King beating language barriers and cultural misunderstandings. In March of 1991, when she was 15, she walked into Empire Liquor Market, a corner store, to buy a bottle of orange juice. There was Disneyland; there was Long Beach. Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby and his order to show cause why a writ should not be granted. Korean grocer Soon Ja Du fatally shot Latasha Harlins after a scuffle an Soon's store. 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. 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. Soon Ja Du Wiki, Age, Husband . 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. 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. 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. And I also remember after Mike Brown was killed, The New York Times ran a piece saying he was "no angel." Consequently, people in the community felt that there were different standards of justice for different races. - Can We All Get Along? So thats when we were in such terror, thinking, What do we make of this? Kelley says it is important to understand what happened in 1992 as an uprising. acting under the misimpression that this was simply an accidental shooting. 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. When the passport was issued, he told me about it: that we would go live in the United States. Brenda Stevenson. Tobar was The Times bureau chief in Mexico City and Buenos Aires and was part of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots. The editorial alludes to Reiners stance by Los Angeles, this was supposed to be it. These stereotypes are you know, even if they're both groups of stereotypes, one set is much more damaging than the other, and results in different outcomes in the criminal justice system, also in education. The decision caused outrage in Los Angeles and a large number of Korean-owned businesses were attacked. Court. Latashas grandmother had asked her to buy some orange juice, and so she obliged. On Monday, December 15, 1958, Soon Ja Du got married to Billy Heung Ki Du. Beach, is now a mediator. But never in my dream, had I ever imagined that my son would go there. Also, she had used an illegally modified handgun that required less pressure to fire than the usual ones. judge only a few months agofrom ever trying another criminal case. community, not banks, to gain a foothold in the business world. Would you like to come over to my house for a meal?' Pete Wilson, could have sentenced Du to 16 years in state prison. When the verdict was read on television we became ill at ease thinking, The black community will not take this. I was full of hopes. 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. returned with a hairpin trigger that, she said, in effect made the gun an A video captured Los Angeles police brutally beating a black man, Rodney King in 1992. Soon Ja Du killed Latasha Harlin over a bottle of orange juice worth $1.79. The past is prologue in Steph Cha's new novel, Your House Will Pay. It is not a time for revenge. Later, it was discovered he was shot by another Korean-American by mistake. hide caption. He came as a motorcycle mechanic. rare. . 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. consultant Joe Cerrell, and she prevailed in the 1992 primary over three 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. 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. Karlin and Dus son also attended that ceremony. her on five years of probation, on. Many Korean-Americans run mom-and-pop markets in black But Appeal on April 21, 1992, issued a decision denying a writ, concluding that the "We had just moved to the heart of South Central LA on 55th and Western," she says. Karlin (since retired from the bench) came under attack in the African-American 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. During that time, our son was with us, our daughter was with us, the entire family was together. 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. So he was very active even in his thoughts and preferred being outside over studying at a desk. On Feb. 10, 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. verdict.. . Many pointed out that the sentence handed out to Du was less severe than the 30 days in jail a Glendale man received a week later for kicking and stomping a dog. consciously to pull the trigger and to exert considerable strength to do so., But that was not true of the gun used to shoot 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 2020, Netflix released a documentary titled A Love Song for Latasha, celebrating the life of Latasha Harlins. Following this, the Los Angeles County District Attorney issued a policy that did not let Joyce judge violent felony cases. 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. They turned around and raced home. It's that he flattened her, and he took her and turned her into this angelic, perfect victim. The police established that Latasha had no intention of shoplifting after talking to 2 witnesses and reviewing the security tapes. Shinese Harlins-Kilgore wears a shirt with her cousin Latasha Harlins' photo. require rehabilitation or incapacitation. Empire Liquor market, went to get a bottle of orange juice worth $1.79 and put uncomfortable suspicion of a politician trying to use a communitys collective and certainly no basis for a challenge where the judge strove to fulfill her Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiners decision to appeal. 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. She was persuaded that Du was not a danger to society, and did not As the teenager turned to leave the store, the gun 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 Court of to invoke that privilege every time Karlin is assigned to a criminal case. After entering the store, Latasha got a bottle of orange juice from the shelf and placed it in her backpack. The couple has three children; two sons, Joseph and Michel, and a daughter, Sandy, who was a theological student at Biola University in 1991. hide caption. 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. But in the end, we wound up getting married and came to the United States. This was such a stunning miscarriage of editorial expresses this reaction: In a climate of outrage by members of the black community She didnt do nothing!. black teen-ager was questionable, no doubt about it. The issue with this journalist is not that he had bad intentions. connection with the fatal shooting the previous March 16. 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. Soon Ja Du follows Christianity. Hes pandering to the public, and I think its re-election battle and has become increasingly vocal on a number of major Edit: only wondering because he doesn't seem to reference it in the song itself. miscarriage of justice and swore to keep Karlina former prosecutor made a He had an older sister here, so we came to LA. Shes an outstanding jurist, very caring and very compassionate, Henning said. title. 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? She then seemed to fall unconscious. the time of sentencing reveals with certainty that Karlin was of such mind that But by then I did not have the luxury of dreaming on any longer; all the dreams had dissipated. Also, Soon Ja Du had experienced theft from black ppl at her store multiple times before the killing of Latasha. First, she thought how odd it was, that this man on the TV shared her father's name. By portraying their deaths, these films depict Asian American mothers as worthy of the same care, sympathy, and compassion that they bestow on their . shoplifting, Reiner instituted a blanket affidavit policy against the judge and 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. Chased out, priced out, native children living in exile. The jury found the defendant guilty of decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. Really. as Reiner is gearing up for re-election.. The incident escalated tensions between Korean-American and black residents of Los Angeles. She remembers running out of the house to Algin Sutton Park to find Latasha's brother, screaming the whole way. Even Karlin expressed a hope that leniency might promote a healing process. Soon's husband, Bill Heung Ki Du heard the gunshot then ran into the store, when he got there Soon appeared confused . Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR his assault on a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, Daniel Calabro (since 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. Soon Ja Du with her husband Billy Heung Ki Du. . So when I connected the dots, I came to learn of the place, and that the young man on the paper was my son. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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. In saying that Du didnt mean to fire the gun, he proclaims, Karlin While disapproving the jurys recommendation of 16 years of imprisonment, Joyce Karlin stated. The woman, who told HuffPost she identifies as transgender and is in the process of legally changing her name to "Ja Du," recently told a news station in Tampa, Florida, that she identifies as . But, Stevenson says, it was the verdicts in both cases that propelled the community forward, towards an explosive rebellion. That had a profound impact on me personally. 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. volitional act, not merely a mishap. My husband started working at a gas station, pumping gas. decision in perspective. I think we didn't think far enough. But when I went to a market, I would be met by stares of people looking at me as a stranger. It was Shawn's home, where his mother and sister had lived and died. 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