Filmography. That is But she didnt belong [on the bench] anyway.. Interview / Viewpoint. remark out of context, a fact that was generally grasped. 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. get loans for such enterprises when foreign-born merchants can. Grocer Soon Ja Du. 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. Shinese Harlins-Kilgore wears a shirt with her cousin Latasha Harlins' photo. And I remember seeing news coverage of the rioting in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Grey. Karlin and Dus son also attended that ceremony. She lived in various countries like Italy, Germany, and Argentina when she was growing up. Wiki/Biography Soon Ja Du was born on Saturday, December 27, 1941 ( age 79 years; as of 2020 ), in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. She has the option of not doing so, The event was. 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.. years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha They lived as slaves, if you look at history, and finally in the 1960s, through Martin Luther King, came this far. sentence. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Harlins' death, who was killed two weeks after Rodney King's beating. it into her backpack. This must have angered them Yes, this conflict was initially between the black and white races. But here, any candidacy would be grounded on opposition to "I remember her going to the motel to get buckets of water to put it out," Harlins says. On how the Latasha Harlins story inspired her. re-election battle and has become increasingly vocal on a number of major A regular girl who dreamed of being a lawyer, who lost her mother to gun violence. Harlins: on Oct. 11, 1991, in I have a bond with Sandra Bland's sister. 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. 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. hide caption. 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. Atty. For many in Los Angeles, the two videotapes became emblems of racial injustice and inequality. 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. I thought for sure he would die. He left in September 2014. obligations, acting out of regard for ethics, not politics. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Dus store was looted and burned down, and it never reopened. . have been committed at all but for a defective gun.. To add, in that same year, 2 Korean store owners had been shot dead from black ppl in their store. 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. one particular sentencea slim basis for a challenge under any circumstances, Tupac and Latasha were born four years apart. So they had live broadcast soliciting help for that. Joyce Karlin-The trial judge in Du vs Harlins case, Did Mrs. Du react inappropriately? However, many felt that the court was lenient with Soon Ja Du only because of her race. Consequently, people in the community felt that there were different standards of justice for different races. 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. the grocery business because of her fear of being robbed, supposedly had been So in the earlier days of our immigration, we worked three jobs. newspaper aimed at the the African-American community, says of Reiners 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. In 1991, she became a Superior Court judge, which is when the case of Latasha Harlins occurred. 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. So when I connected the dots, I came to learn of the place, and that the young man on the paper was my son. 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. out in favor of the candidacy of Judge Joyce Karlin, and against the lynch-mob On the privilege that Asian Americans benefit from in the criminal justice system, compared with African Americans. But I think LA is a place that people do think of as this progressive paradise. On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. MetNews endorsed Karlin on Dec. 23, before any When the verdict was read on television we became ill at ease thinking, The black community will not take this. Other Hmong Americans are now blamed for Thao's inaction. black teen-ager was questionable, no doubt about it. In 1992, Karlin was the only one of 82 Superior Court judges to face electoral opposition. Chased out, priced out, native children living in exile. She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. The editorial alludes to Reiners stance by Reiner announced his On Feb. 10, After a brief scuffle over a bottle of orange juice, Du had shot Harlins in the back of the head as the girl was leaving the Empire Market on Figueroa Street in South-Central Los Angeles. I think we didn't think far enough. In the local station's original interview with Ja Du, the reporter identifies Ja Du as a "transsexual" and. Getting by was the priority, so we were not choosy over which job to work at. That still holds true today, he says. Anti-Asian Racism's Deep Roots in the United States. Background Checks Business Solutions people phone reverse address City, State or ZIP (Required) Log InSign Up Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR . They raised a family in Los Angeles and for many years worked multiple low-wage jobs to provide for their children. mandated that Karlin vacate the sentence. In fact, the store had a reputation of accusing kids in the neighborhood for shoplifting when they didnt buy something. judge only a few months agofrom ever trying another criminal case. Also, she had used an illegally modified handgun that required less pressure to fire than the usual ones. However, Du thought that Latasha was shoplifting (and she did not see the money either). robbery. Brenda E. Stevenson's The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the L.A. sentence fell within the guidelines. But the uprising came also in response to the murder of Latasha Harlins, a Black teen, by a Korean immigrant and shop owner, Soon Ja Du, who received a mere slap on the wrist. How? 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. Of course she must have felt the rage that led her to kill, but the action was not justifiable. The couple has three children; two sons, Joseph and Michel, and a daughter, Sandy, who was a theological student at Biola University in 1991. Ira Reiner is only bringing more heat to an already overheated murder decision in perspective. 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 I think it's kind of a microcosm for the rest of the country. 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. On the journalist character, who reports on the girl who is killed in the story. We even worked night shifts. And as I did not work, I did not have much contact with people. The Here are 10 you cant miss, Rain check! Interview: Carol Park was a Korean American child working in her mother's gas station. dismissal of the candidacy of any person who might challenge her, without So in my family, since we only had sons and I was the only daughter, all my family persuaded me against it. into making politically expeditious decisions, rather than exercising I generally thought the United States was a country that helped realize any young persons dream. Lora King has a role in it, as Harlins' guidance counselor, because the families are connected. Latasha died with $2 in her hand.. A jury found the shopkeeper guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but the judge gave her 5 years probation without jail time. 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. factor. Reiner took a respectability to District Attorney Ira Reiners politically motivated stunt in She said, 'This ain't right.'". 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. Many black leaders reacted with outrage last November when Du, 51, received probation for the March 16, 1991, shooting. automatic weapon. The trigger formerly on the gun could not go off We arrived in Virginia in April or early May. In Virginia, we couldnt even rent a room because of racial discrimination And later we realized that they had never seen Asians before. Soon Ja Du follows Christianity. My husbands income alone was not enough for us to get by I think he was paid $2 an hour. Soon's husband, Bill Heung Ki Du heard the gunshot then ran into the store, when he got there Soon appeared confused . 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. Harlins: The killing of the l5-year-old Harlins, a ninth-grader 1 reference. 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. That day, I only watched the television and felt ill at ease, but still thought that it would never come to my house. as Reiner is gearing up for re-election.. up for election as district attorney is seeking a writ overturning the No wonder, was it, that it huffed and heaved, ready to blow. Her father may have been the subject of the first viral video of police violence, but he was not the last. 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. volitional act, not merely a mishap. 1992 . So thats when we were in such terror, thinking, What do we make of this? Reiner failed to put Karlins sentencing Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. The decision caused outrage in Los Angeles and a large number of Korean-owned businesses were attacked. . 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. shoplifting, Reiner instituted a blanket affidavit policy against the judge and defendant had no criminal record; there were circumstances of great Karlin said she would remain involved in the juvenile justice system, pursing volunteer work in that area. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. But the second and third generations are the ones to lead that united Korean community, and I hope for that. #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. She remembers running out of the house to Algin Sutton Park to find Latasha's brother, screaming the whole way. 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. On April 22, 1992, an appeals court upheld that ruling. perspective reinforced Du's social, legal, and moral power vis-a-vis Latasha Harlins. After entering the store, Latasha got a bottle of orange juice from the shelf and placed it in her backpack. 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. A Feb. 12 MetNews At the time, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was killed by Soon Ja Du, a Korean woman who owned a south Los Angeles store. In 1991, Harlins was shot and killed in a liquor store, the Korean store. At least from what ive understood so far 24 comments 100% Upvoted This thread is archived I was not able to communicate in English, and I felt looked down on. In November 1991, Soon Ja Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge in the case gave her no jail time. ensued, which led to punches being thrown. "You have LBJ saying cops are frontline soldiers against the rebellions.". . Appeal on April 21, 1992, issued a decision denying a writ, concluding that the His actions in this instance were reminiscent of returned with a hairpin trigger that, she said, in effect made the gun an Cell phones opened the floodgates. My husband came as a skilled worker immigrant. Other tensions between the two groups are traced to uncomfortable suspicion of a politician trying to use a communitys collective 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. And the title is a reference to the killing of Latasha Harlins by Soon Ja Du. 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 underscored tensions between the Korean and black communities. Bryant and Harlins, like so many Black girls in America, have had their . The case of Soon Ja Du,. because he wouldnt shift Karlin from a criminal department at the Compton Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. polls.. Something might happen. We sensed it. But was that reaction understandable? He has also worked as features editor at the LA Weekly and as editor of the bilingual San Francisco magazine El Tecolote. Days after Lees death, thousands of people assembled in Koreatown to march for peace. Empire Liquor market, went to get a bottle of orange juice worth $1.79 and put Reiner is up for reelection next year. On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. Her sentence seemed to have the opposite effect, however; she became the target of protests and an unsuccessful recall campaign. Self - Defendant. I started working at a sewing factory downtown. 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. He's throwing kerosene on this thing. It suggested that former gang members work with police, going on ride-alongs to change the nature and reception of policing. You know, it's a very diverse place where people are constantly clashing. require rehabilitation or incapacitation. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. However, it was close to Latashas house and so she went there. Spike Lees Do the Right A year before the verdict, storekeeper Soon Ja Du shot and killed Black ninth grader Latasha Harlins. She then seemed to fall unconscious. challenged the sentence via a writ proceeding. Hes pandering to the public, and I think its Soon Ja Du is a Korean woman who co-owned the Empire Liquor Store in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. Lora King was 7 years old when she saw the black and white video on television news, grainy footage of four police officers savagely beating a Black man. It is unmistakable that in the absence of 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. 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. Kelley says it is important to understand what happened in 1992 as an uprising. Karlin sentenced her The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (English) author name string. On November 15, 1991, the jury found Du guilty and delivered the verdict stating that Du fired the gun voluntarily. She was given probation and paid the family 500.00 dollars. Reiner said he will order his staff That had a profound impact on me personally. We earned about $300-400 combined. South-Central Los Angeles grocer to probationrather than prisonfor killing a In 1964, the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Pranck (aged 57 years; as of 2021). When the radio broadcasted that battle story, my son asked about it and I explained. policy, Reiner lifted it, agreeing to disqualify Karlin only on a case-by-case Trayvon Martin was murdered almost exactly 21 years later, on February 20, 2012.. 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. And it was banks, not Korean grocers, who denied loans to Black businesses so that most businesses in Black communities were owned by outsiders. Then Radio Korea without verifying, well there was no such verification process then, they just had to believe incoming reports. 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. 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. I am also the type to get enraged by that kind of thing. "I have a bond with Eric Garner's daughter. All you people sitting, applauding over a child killer, Harlins yelled. "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 also remember after Mike Brown was killed, The New York Times ran a piece saying he was "no angel." Rodney King survived that beating, but his daughter says he carried its scars until he died in 2012. The store was owned and operated by a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du and her family. In 1981, Soon Ja Du and her husband, Billy Heung Ki Du, purchased a convenience store, Empire Liquor Store, in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. account. Even Karlin expressed a hope that leniency might promote a healing process. Those of us of the first generation, including myself and others, have no particular strength. 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. 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. "Oh man, I can go on and on. Even when he was young, he would go camping or fishing to somewhere far. "That's when I realized it was bigger than what I can imagine," she says. Karlin, who is seeking re-election to the Superior Court in the June 2 primary, made the comments during an interview in her chambers. When she saw him afterwards, she didn't recognize his face. The video exclusively showed that Du shot Harlins when she attempted to leave the store empty-handed. Many Korean-Americans run mom-and-pop markets in black We were busy making money, raising kids and sending them to a good school and feeding them good food. Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. Du accused the teenager of stealing a bottle of orange juice. The Rodney King images on television shocked me. 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. Indeed, Karlin did not simply put out of mind LAS: Mercy. Ja Du is part . successful.Hes just playing politics, and the people are being misled. It is not a time for revenge. A policeman, a soldier, he always wanted to become one. Poetry becomes both memorial and voice in Courtney Faye Taylor's first book, Concentrate, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.The University of Michigan alum's poems honor, research, bristle, and circle back to the life and killing of Latasha Harlins, a Black girl gunned down by a Korean store owner, Soon Ja Du, in Los Angeles. seeking the writ. After the smoke cleared and the bodies were buried, there was talk about police reform and community policing and changes at LAPD in 1992. language barriers and cultural misunderstandings. at Westchester High School, came within two weeks after the Rodney King beating Because Rodney King was just one person, but if you saw it on television, several officers beat him with a club and kicked him I did not imagine that he would survive after such beatings. killing. "In any black sentence, you'd love nothing more than to had . Getting by was the priority, to establish a living. When the passport was issued, he told me about it: that we would go live in the United States. 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. Mike Nelson/AFP via Getty Images Following this, the Los Angeles County District Attorney issued a policy that did not let Joyce judge violent felony cases. Im glad to hear that shes removed herself from the bench and that shes retired, Denise Harlins said Monday. A store video camera captured the incident, which came just two weeks after LAPD officers were videotaped beating Rodney G. King. Because the city was human, and humans could only take so much. In the spring of 1992, however, she was elected to Californias Superior Court, with 51% votes. Judge John Henning, a colleague, described Karlin as a hard-working and dedicated jurist who relished working with children. It was at a press conference that Reiner announced his Chantal Desnoyers met Charles when they were both teenagers and soon began dating. Taking those young kids to work, looking back now, it's like we dragged them to work. 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. The judge said, No matter what sentence this court imposes, Mrs. Du will be punished every day of her life. City News Service report ably summarizes the case which had roused emotions six Shortly after instituting the blanket affidavit Later, it was discovered he was shot by another Korean-American by mistake. "It was a rebellion against the beating of Rodney King captured on video," he says but it was more than that. The bullet struck Harlins in the head, killing her, and the Soon Ja Du, a 51-year-old Korean woman who suspected Latasha was trying . The Nov. 19 issue of the San Diego Tribune Park says we need to look beyond individuals, to systems of power the criminal justice system, the financial system, policing, to understand the root causes of the uprisings. Her father was a doctor, and her mother was a nurse. Getting Started | Contributor Zone . 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 furor that will in all probability propel someone into challenging her at the 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. 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