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decision in perspective. It was Dus husband, Billy Heung Ki Du, who ended up calling 911. 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. basis. But was that reaction understandable? But when you put Koreans into the scene, this must have made them think, Yes, that owner of the liquor store only took money from me, but never gave back.. Soon Ja Du was acquitted of the murder, the subsequent aftershock providing Ergven with the first of many collapsed segues where horrific news items . Los Angeles, this was supposed to be it. My husbands income alone was not enough for us to get by I think he was paid $2 an hour. Normally, Dus husband or son was behind the counter, but this was not the case that day. According to the videotape from the surveillance camera in the store, Du proceeded to snatch the teenagers backpack, after which Latasha punched Du twice, knocking her to the ground. Mike Nelson/AFP via Getty Images 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. One of them was the shooting of Black teenager Latasha Harlins by a Korean American store owner. 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. She was persuaded that Du was not a danger to society, and did not She was given probation and paid the family 500.00 dollars. It is not a time for revenge. I came to hope that something like this would never happen again. Harlins case has been so painful and sensitive that one is left with the But I couldnt say, I also want to go out with you, son. Its just how I secretly felt. 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. we regard as abominably bad judgment, we applaud his forthright and prompt her on five years of probation, on. retired), when he sought to draw political support from the African-American requires incarceration, she found three factors rendering the case an unusual So thats when we were in such terror, thinking, What do we make of this? Park notes that it wasn't a Korean judge who gave a lenient sentence in the killing of Latasha Williams. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. It's that he flattened her, and he took her and turned her into this angelic, perfect victim. It was this horrific piece about this boy who had been murdered. At least from what ive understood so far 24 comments 100% Upvoted This thread is archived Spike Lees Do the Right 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. For African Americans, the sentence that was given to her was . Soon Ja Du, a 51-year-old Korean store owner ultimately charged with 1st degree murder, claimed she was trying to steal the juice. throwing kerosene on this thing. 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. sentence fell within the guidelines. 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. 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. Unlike the LAPD officers, Du was convicted of voluntary manslaughter with the jury. the publics protector. And I think it's kind of a microcosm for the rest of the country. Looking back, it was a hard life. Soon Ja Du with her husband Billy Heung Ki Du. Soon Ja Du, who killed Latasha Harlins, an African American teenager, over a shoplifting dispute. You need to protect us. And we had an arguments saying, You cant go out.. factor. 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. In November 1991, Soon Ja Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge in the case gave her no jail time. community by exposing the jurist as a racistwhich he wasnt. "It's been my life since I was 7 years old," she says. I think that event led Koreans to a different thinking. Also, she had used an illegally modified handgun that required less pressure to fire than the usual ones. order to show cause why a writ should not be granted. The cashier, a woman named Soon Ja Du, accused her of shoplifting. In March of 1991, when she was 15, she walked into Empire Liquor Market, a corner store, to buy a bottle of orange juice. The past is prologue in Steph Cha's new novel, Your House Will Pay. Karlin (since retired from the bench) came under attack in the African-American It was so swollen and bruised. Also, Karlin found that the victim, Latasha 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. You know, in all these different arenas, Asian Americans are able to code white, and black Americans just are not. But when I went to a market, I would be met by stares of people looking at me as a stranger. On Feb. 10, A policeman, a soldier, he always wanted to become one. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. miscarriage of justice and swore to keep Karlina former prosecutor made a relays this report from Los Angeles: District Attorney Ira Reiner ordered I have serious questions in my mind whether this crime would MetNews reports: Reiner acknowledgedyesterday that a successful 51-year-old Korean-born female store owner Soon Ja Du shot 15-year-old Harlin in the back of the head in 1991. Even so, a reading of the entire discourse at 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. 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. Instead, she [issued a] Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR connection with the fatal shooting the previous March 16. It should be a time for healing.. consciously to pull the trigger and to exert considerable strength to do so., But that was not true of the gun used to shoot So with the help of the owner we got a basement room, where, when you look outside, you could only see peoples feet walking by. hide caption. over the leniency shown Du, the publicityseeking, vote-coveting demagogue whos acting under the misimpression that this was simply an accidental shooting. Interview / Viewpoint. --- Vielen Dank an Frau Dr. Schiffmann fr das ausfhrliche Interview und auch an Prof. Heesen, die Deutsche Hirnstiftung und alle anderen Beteiligten fr die investierte Zeit in die Patientenleitlinie! But she didnt belong [on the bench] anyway.. "There was another plan for reconstruction after 92." In 2018, she was invited by the French authorities to create four windows for Chartres Cathedral. Latasha was defenseless. Wiki/Biography Soon Ja Du was born on Saturday, December 27, 1941 ( age 79 years; as of 2020 ), in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. And their spirits seem joined this week, as Latasha makes a brief but emotional appearance in the recently aired second episode of O.J. Days after Lees death, thousands of people assembled in Koreatown to march for peace. 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. "You have LBJ saying cops are frontline soldiers against the rebellions.". 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. Patrick Jarenwattananon adapted it for the Web. A Korean-born merchant,. start time. The property later became a market under different ownership. "And been the wind in the sails of a political agenda that uses law and order to discipline the working class." courthouse at the snap of fingers. Thankfully I lived without conflict until then. But it is a place that has a lot of problems and a lot of divisions, and ones that are age-old that are not being dealt with. 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. The Nov. 27 issue of the Reiner announced his Du accused the teenager of stealing a bottle of orange juice. But the second and third generations are the ones to lead that united Korean community, and I hope for that. A Feb. 12 MetNews A video captured Los Angeles police brutally beating a black man, Rodney King in 1992. On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. It was Shawn's home, where his mother and sister had lived and died. As she looked around at the faces of her family, she realized it was her dad. $500 to the restitution fund, reimburse the girls family for medical and On how the Latasha Harlins story inspired her. Then she thought, he can't survive this. 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. I have a bond with Sandra Bland's sister. 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. prosecutors yesterday to boycott the judge whose light sentence for a One customer, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins, selected a bottle of orange juice in the back of the store. This case only fuelled the racial fires that eventually resulted in the Los Angeles riots in 1992. I wanted to go out, too, honestly. Im saddened for the system that were going to be losing her.. 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 "These cases really play out in the public in tandem with one another," says Brenda Stevenson, a UCLA professor who wrote a book about the Latasha Harlins' case, "almost as if they were parallel." Im very saddened and disappointed that shes retiring, but happy for her, said Superior Court Judge Stephen Czuleger, a longtime friend. returned with a hairpin trigger that, she said, in effect made the gun an it had been rigged by another employee to fire quickly in the event of a There, we were faced with a discrimination of language. That is how this any-labor-solely-for-money began. saying: While the presiding judge of the Superior 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. "There was an interview that the local ABC affiliate did with one of . UCLA history professor Robin D.G. require rehabilitation or incapacitation. And it was banks, not Korean grocers, who denied loans to Black businesses so that most businesses in Black communities were owned by outsiders. number of children. So they had live broadcast soliciting help for that. He can appeal, but he wont be defendant had no criminal record; there were circumstances of great Harlins, was not especially vulnerable, having used her fists as weapons just At the time, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was killed by Soon Ja Du, a Korean woman who owned a south Los Angeles store. Karlin said she would remain involved in the juvenile justice system, pursing volunteer work in that area. 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. Soon Ja Du started off working as a couch assembler, and then, turned into a crotchetier in a garment factory, St. John Knits. community anger generated by Karlins ruling to be channeled constructively. Its over-reaction was understandable in light of the climate of intense fear 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. Five, in an order by Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby, issued an The Indeed, Karlin did not simply put out of mind But Kelley says backlash to protests against police violence continued. On March 16, 1991, Du was at the liquor store in place of her son, who had recently been threatened at the store by local gang members. the grocery business because of her fear of being robbed, supposedly had been "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. On November 15, 1991, the jury found Du guilty and delivered the verdict stating that Du fired the gun voluntarily. Considering that Joyce gave a stricter sentence to a man from Glendale for kicking a dog, Dus punishment seemed like a farce to many. 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. Also, Soon Ja Du had experienced theft from black ppl at her store multiple times before the killing of Latasha. . 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. perfectly legalbut is it wise? But by then I did not have the luxury of dreaming on any longer; all the dreams had dissipated. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. and certainly no basis for a challenge where the judge strove to fulfill her The Harlins family was awarded $300,000. Latasha died with $2 in her hand.. After Latasha Harlins' mother died, her grandmother took her and her younger siblings in, and Latasha helped raise them too. . Brenda E. Stevenson's The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the L.A. As a dependency court judge, Karlin presided over cases involving abused and neglected children. killing. Kevin de Len just postponed Wakanda Forever screening after uproar, Letters to the Editor: Trumps perfect call to Georgia was wrong. The jury found the defendant guilty of threatened judicial independence than any judge-bashers on the outside, for Soon Ja Du was hysterical, screaming that she was being robbed, that the robber had tried to take money out of the cash register. 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. MetNews endorsed Karlin on Dec. 23, before any Cell phones opened the floodgates. It must be noted that the store did not reopen after that day. coercion, and duress would have no bearing if this were a case of involuntary You know, it's a very diverse place where people are constantly clashing. In her written statement, Karlin said her resignation would become effective next month. justice that Judge (Joyce) Karlin cannot continue to hear criminal cases with hide caption. West Gate Prison looked like that. Here are 10 you cant miss, Rain check! account. 1992 . Self - Defendant. When it came to work, because our/his English was limited, there were no available opportunities. Because had that incident not occurred, my son might not have died. And as I did not work, I did not have much contact with people. On April 22, 1992, an appeals court upheld that ruling. 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. 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. In all, over 300 businesses were burned and looted in the district, with damage exceeding $200 million. Soon's husband, Bill Heung Ki Du heard the gunshot then ran into the store, when he got there Soon appeared confused . case by joining in the criticism so vociferously. In Korea, I met my husband. So he thought all that we had amassed, although not a lot, was about to disappear. 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