that a prosecution appeal of a case is rare and usually unsuccessful because of In November 1991, Soon Ja Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge in the case gave her no jail time. Reiner failed to put Karlins sentencing Days after Lees death, thousands of people assembled in Koreatown to march for peace. 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 store was owned and operated by a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du and her family. 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. Even now, you know the big trash bins, with several of those placed next to the building; its a terrifying memory even now. Then many Koreans, after I had already immigrated to the United States, came in the 80s. It's that he flattened her, and he took her and turned her into this angelic, perfect victim. consultant Joe Cerrell, and she prevailed in the 1992 primary over three In 2020, Netflix released a documentary titled A Love Song for Latasha, celebrating the life of Latasha Harlins. Many uninsured businesses never re-opened, uprooting the lives of Korean-American families who had labored for years to build their livelihoods from scratch. 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. 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. I started working at a sewing factory downtown. . She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. Soon Ja Du, her husband, and son operated a liquor store in Los Angeles. she would have imposed the same sentence had she not taken this factor into After Latasha Harlins' mother died, her grandmother took her and her younger siblings in, and Latasha helped raise them too. The Harlins family turned the death of Latasha and the sentence of Du into a cause celebre, holding vigils outside the Du residence every year on the anniversary of her sentencing. at Westchester High School, came within two weeks after the Rodney King beating At one point, Denise Harlins interrupted an awards ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel for Du defense attorney Charles Lloyd. Five, in an order by Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby, issued an nonetheless constitutes a tentative determination that she erredthus lending His way of thinking was more mature than of his peers. healing wont be helped along by Reiners outburst. Justine Kenin and Jolie Myers produced and edited this interview for broadcast. one particular sentencea slim basis for a challenge under any circumstances, I'm a writer. 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. ensued, which led to punches being thrown. accidentally, Karlin said, and a woman of Mrs. Dus size would have to decide 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. My son was shot by someone who had fired from the roof, and it turned out that the people on the roof werent blacks, but Koreans. 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. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. 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. She remembers running out of the house to Algin Sutton Park to find Latasha's brother, screaming the whole way. we regard as abominably bad judgment, we applaud his forthright and prompt killing. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Harlins' death, who was killed two weeks after Rodney King's beating. Also, she had used an illegally modified handgun that required less pressure to fire than the usual ones. So it scared me, and I did not like the darkness that resembled the prison color. But here, any candidacy would be grounded on opposition to 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. shooting was captured on the stores surveillance tape and widely shown by the I mostly worked downtown or in Koreatown, so I did not have much trouble with Hispanic or black people. 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 . And I think there's an impulse to consider it the same struggle, or part of the same thing, but the reality is that Asian Americans are treated differently from black Americans. In 1991, Harlins, 15, and Soon Ja Du, 51, got into an altercation over a bottle of orange juice inside Du's Empire Liquor in South Los Angeles. The Court of returned with a hairpin trigger that, she said, in effect made the gun an Instead, she [issued a] Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Main Page He's throwing kerosene on this thing. But the second and third generations are the ones to lead that united Korean community, and I hope for that. We even worked night shifts. This must have angered them Yes, this conflict was initially between the black and white races. Many Korean-Americans run mom-and-pop markets in black Harlins case has been so painful and sensitive that one is left with the There was an altercation. Charles Lloyd, the Black attorney who defended Her father an executive who also became the president of Warner Bros. International. She said, 'This ain't right.'". The judge said, No matter what sentence this court imposes, Mrs. Du will be punished every day of her life. While use of a gun ordinarily I write about these topics; I write about difficult things. Anti-Asian Racism's Deep Roots in the United States. Through her sentencing, Karlin labeled Soon Ja Du's lifestyle as appropriate, while chastising and criminalizing Harlins for behaving differently, for being different. 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 Perspectives Columns. 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. Since childhood, Eddie had a sense of justice and was full of energy. 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? Ja Du is part . 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. challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial: Inherent in our endorsement of Karlin is the Police Chief Daryl Gates, who invented SWAT, retired. The retired judge was elected to Manhattan Beachs city council twice from 1999 to 2007, and she even ran for a position to become a part of the citys School Board Trustees. LAS: Mercy. Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiners decision to appeal. Karlin and Dus son also attended that ceremony. View their profile including current address, phone number 818-361-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Whitepages, the most trusted online directory. 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. 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. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. And I remember seeing news coverage of the rioting in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Grey. Karlin (since retired from the bench) came under attack in the African-American South-Central Los Angeles grocer to probationrather than prisonfor killing a Du foi julgada e condenada por homicdio . In all, over 300 businesses were burned and looted in the district, with damage exceeding $200 million. In 1991, Harlins was shot and killed in a liquor store, the Korean store. 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. In an interview, Cha who is Korean American and grew up in the LA region in the 1990s spoke about the "direct throughlines" from then to now. That means the jury found the defendant intended to The Korean grocer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter but given probationno time behind bars. So when I connected the dots, I came to learn of the place, and that the young man on the paper was my son. 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. I generally thought the United States was a country that helped realize any young persons dream. 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. media. connection with the fatal shooting the previous March 16. So without knowing the full story, I just thought, wow, shes badly beaten. But I dont think it was justifiable to kill. When she thinks of her father now, she doesn't think of that video. And it was banks, not Korean grocers, who denied loans to Black businesses so that most businesses in Black communities were owned by outsiders. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. issues in recent weeks, said the action against Karlin was unusual, but not 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. In 1964, the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Pranck (aged 57 years; as of 2021). Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. Karlin defended her sentence of Du as within legal guidelines, a decision made after careful deliberation on the evidence. 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. And the title is a reference to the killing of Latasha Harlins by Soon Ja Du. the grocery business because of her fear of being robbed, supposedly had been This It was this horrific piece about this boy who had been murdered. Because had that incident not occurred, my son might not have died. [Karlin] could have [ordered] a new trial, or 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. That still holds true today, he says. On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. — -- 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. It is not a time for revenge. because he wouldnt shift Karlin from a criminal department at the Compton On the journalist character, who reports on the girl who is killed in the story. Her Korean-American son was killed during the LA uprising. Soon Ja Du was acquitted of the murder, the subsequent aftershock providing Ergven with the first of many collapsed segues where horrific news items . One of them was the shooting of Black teenager Latasha Harlins by a Korean American store owner. 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. Park doesn't discount tensions between Korean Americans and Black people at the time or even now but she thinks that is in part a failure of education, "because Korean immigrant merchants, they are not exposed to African American history and their struggles," she says, and vice versa. voluntary manslaughter. The cashier, a woman named Soon Ja Du, accused her of shoplifting. Empire Liquor market, went to get a bottle of orange juice worth $1.79 and put that consideration, she would have come to the same sentencing conclusion. An angry Du then threw a chair at the kid. Ira Reiner is only bringing more heat to an already overheated murder A video captured Los Angeles police brutally beating a black man, Rodney King in 1992. That is how this any-labor-solely-for-money began. requires incarceration, she found three factors rendering the case an unusual 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. He has also worked as features editor at the LA Weekly and as editor of the bilingual San Francisco magazine El Tecolote. Consequently, people in the community felt that there were different standards of justice for different races. Joyce said this about the sentence This is not a time for rhetoric. As the teenager turned to leave the store, the gun questions about whether the defendant intended to kill the girl. Soon Ja Du was hysterical, screaming that she was being robbed, that the robber had tried to take money out of the cash register. I respect everyone on this School Board. It was so swollen and bruised. Karlin said she would remain involved in the juvenile justice system, pursing volunteer work in that area. 1 reference. Edit: only wondering because he doesn't seem to reference it in the song itself. In memory of the losses suffered in 1992, Korean-Americans call the unrest "Sa-I-Gu," or 4-2-9 in native pronunciation. They lived as slaves, if you look at history, and finally in the 1960s, through Martin Luther King, came this far. 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. She was persuaded that Du was not a danger to society, and did not Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby and his Family & Ethnicity community, not banks, to gain a foothold in the business world. Soon Ja Du and her family migrated to Los Angeles in 1976 when she was 35 years old. 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. 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. Ja Du says he's also transgender and wants to undergo gender transitioning. Nov. 15, 1991: Shopkeeper Soon Ja Du is convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the killing of Latasha Harlins. Two weeks after King's beating, Korean American grocer Soon Ja Du fatally shot 15-year-old Latasha Harlins after a dispute over a bottle of orange juice. The video exclusively showed that Du shot Harlins when she attempted to leave the store empty-handed. 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. with a postcard denial has, instead, induced an order to show cause. black teen-ager was questionable, no doubt about it. That day, I only watched the television and felt ill at ease, but still thought that it would never come to my house. 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.. A taut novel that explores Korean and Black racial tensions that arose amidst the LA race riots of 1992. She was walking to the liquor store with her sister and when they got there, it was on fire. at a time when Karlin is facing a possible recall based on the sentence, and 1992 . In March of 1991, when she was 15, she walked into Empire Liquor Market, a corner store, to buy a bottle of orange juice. In so doing, they have more severely The Harlins family was awarded $300,000. 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 he saw the fear and rancor here, in the ones who'd stayed. Taking those young kids to work, looking back now, it's like we dragged them to work. But Los Angeles Dist. The two eye-witnesses of the event contradicted Dus claims and stated that Du never asked Harlins intentions to pay for the orange juice, instead she called her a bitch. After viewing the videotape of the store security camera, the police concluded that Harlins intended to pay for the beverage as she held money in her hand. the time of sentencing reveals with certainty that Karlin was of such mind that I think we didn't think far enough. Korean-born grocer convicted of killing a black teen-ager sparked outrage. As he had in the past, often, he sought to advance his It kind of depends on who's telling the story and what the story is. The shooter, Soon Ja Du, got away with zero jail time for the murder. 1 reference. 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. years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha With George Floyd's sister," she pauses and shakes her head. You know, I started writing this book in 2014 right after Michael Brown's murder. Stuyvesant area. But in the end, we wound up getting married and came to the United States. West Gate Prison looked like that. Wiki/Biography Family & Ethnicity Parents & Siblings Relationships, Husband & Children Career The killing of Latasha Harlins Kevin de Len just postponed Wakanda Forever screening after uproar, Letters to the Editor: Trumps perfect call to Georgia was wrong. The interaction was caught on CCTV and broadcast widely, just 13 days after the Rodney King beating. condition that she pay obligations, acting out of regard for ethics, not politics. Later, it was discovered he was shot by another Korean-American by mistake. Im glad to hear that shes removed herself from the bench and that shes retired, Denise Harlins said Monday. Latashas aunt, Denise Harlins, said, It was like a knife going through my heart. "She wanted to make sure her sister and brother were cool, that they had they head on strong," says Shinese Harlins. The life was in another word, I felt like we were not treated as human beings. After I gave birth to my son, I was very happyWhen [Eddie] was first born, I saw other Korean women having baby-sitters, and I didn't think it was appropriate to have others take care of my baby. But never in my dream, had I ever imagined that my son would go there. verdict.. Dus testimony was contradicted by the two eye-witnesses and the video which was revived from the store security camera. Even Karlin expressed a hope that leniency might promote a healing process. Beach, is now a mediator. 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 television, they would visually focus on fires and looting And the broadcasters, though it was not a conflict between Koreans and blacks, they began to add those elements little by little. As Du was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the jury recommended the maximum prison sentence for the crime, which was 16 years. 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