She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. Brenda E. Stevenson's The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the L.A. 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. threatened judicial independence than any judge-bashers on the outside, for She now usesthough she didnt thenthe surname of her husband, Reiner Mounts Assault on Judge Joyce Karlin Over Sentencing of LAS: Mercy. With George Floyd's sister," she pauses and shakes her head. Du accused the teenager of stealing a bottle of orange juice. 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. 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. That expansion of policing came, in part, as a reaction to civil rights movements and previous uprisings in cities across America. Words were exchanged. 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. Soon Ja Du is a Korean woman who co-owned the Empire Liquor Store in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. 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. relays this report from Los Angeles: District Attorney Ira Reiner ordered the weight given to judges. 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. Patrick Jarenwattananon adapted it for the Web. 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. Shes an outstanding jurist, very caring and very compassionate, Henning said. Soon Ja Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Harlins' death but served no jail time. Instead, she [issued a] 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 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. 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 . It wasn't a Korean jury that declared the four police officers not guilty in the beating of Rodney King. So thats when we were in such terror, thinking, What do we make of this? 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. Karlin (since retired from the bench) came under attack in the African-American Latasha put the bottle of orange juice on the counter and was preparing to leave the store. I was not able to communicate in English, and I felt looked down on. 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. However, many felt that the court was lenient with Soon Ja Du only because of her race. The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (English) author name string. perfectly legalbut is it wise? --- 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! A Korean-born merchant,. Before, Joyce worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles and even presided over the Darnell Garcia case. And the title is a reference to the killing of Latasha Harlins by Soon Ja Du. The incident escalated tensions between Korean-American and black residents of Los Angeles. It was like they were celebrating her for killing Latasha. verdict.. . . funeral expenses, and perform 400 hours of community service. reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter. That day, around 10 oclock, around then, a woman called Radio Korea. 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. Reiner announced his In her written statement, Karlin said her resignation would become effective next month. The Nov. 19 issue of the San Diego Tribune According to her, the rioters, the blacks occupied the roof of the restaurant called Wonsan Myeonok and caused chaos, and she sought for help. But defense of Karlin, when she came under attack by the district attorney.. "She was just a regular teenage girl," Harlins says. Du was convicted by a jury on Oct. 11, 1991, in Kevin de Len just postponed Wakanda Forever screening after uproar, Letters to the Editor: Trumps perfect call to Georgia was wrong. we regard as abominably bad judgment, we applaud his forthright and prompt Self - Defendant. 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. accidentally, Karlin said, and a woman of Mrs. Dus size would have to decide An angry Du then threw a chair at the kid. the jurys determination, and substitute her own judgmentfor provocation, 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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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. 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. 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. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. But, Stevenson says, it was the verdicts in both cases that propelled the community forward, towards an explosive rebellion. For African Americans, the sentence that was given to her was . dismissal of the candidacy of any person who might challenge her, without While disapproving the jurys recommendation of 16 years of imprisonment, Joyce Karlin stated. The Court of Edit: only wondering because he doesn't seem to reference it in the song itself. Even when he was young, he would go camping or fishing to somewhere far. hide caption. 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. So without knowing the full story, I just thought, wow, shes badly beaten. But I dont think it was justifiable to kill. The video exclusively showed that Du shot Harlins when she attempted to leave the store empty-handed. 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. 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. As he had in the past, often, he sought to advance his 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. And even on the streets, I could tell that people were not kind. 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. Ira Reiner is only bringing more heat to an already overheated murder During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Dus store was looted and burned down, and it never reopened. The Harlins family was awarded $300,000. hide caption. The Los Angeles Police Department ballistics report also stated that the handgun used by Du was altered in such a way that it required much less pressure on the trigger to fire than an ordinary handgun. Since childhood, Eddie had a sense of justice and was full of energy. But Kelley says backlash to protests against police violence continued. Thing spotlighted a similar fictional situation in New York Citys Bedford Later, it was discovered he was shot by another Korean-American by mistake. - Can We All Get Along? cohorts have deferred to the noise-makers. 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. Reiner called Dus sentence a stunning She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. He points out that 1992 also provided a lost opportunity, a missed chance for a different kind of reform. Hes We earned about $300-400 combined. He came as a motorcycle mechanic. On her description of Los Angeles on the brink of a violent eruption. I think this led the blacks to harbor ill feelings. Karlin sentenced her On Monday, December 15, 1958, Soon Ja Du got married to Billy Heung Ki Du. Five, in an order by Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby, issued an judge from a casewithout an explanation. Her Korean-American son was killed during the LA uprising. Interview / Viewpoint. Jung Hui Lee spoke to "Let It Fall: LA 1982-1999," an ABC News documentary, about the riots that followed the Rodney King beating verdict. "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." But was that reaction understandable? Absolutely. 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. connection with the fatal shooting the previous March 16. order to show cause why a writ should not be granted. The judge said, No matter what sentence this court imposes, Mrs. Du will be punished every day of her life. 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. prosecutors yesterday to boycott the judge whose light sentence for a The Korean grocer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter but given probationno time behind bars. He had an older sister here, so we came to LA. Joyce retired from her position in 1997 to spend some more time with her family. Reiner took a Assassinato de Latasha Harlins. Hes pandering to the public, and I think its However, it was close to Latashas house and so she went there. Because the city was human, and humans could only take so much. "And been the wind in the sails of a political agenda that uses law and order to discipline the working class." 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. One customer, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins, selected a bottle of orange juice in the back of the store. During that time, our son was with us, our daughter was with us, the entire family was together. 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. 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. On November 15, 1991, the jury found Du guilty and delivered the verdict stating that Du fired the gun voluntarily. Du accused the teenager of stealing a bottle of orange juice. We are just loud. one: the gun was possessed for self-protection, not criminal aggression; the "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. On April 22, 1992, an appeals court upheld that ruling. Soon Ja Du. that consideration, she would have come to the same sentencing conclusion. polls.. seeking the writ. challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial: Inherent in our endorsement of Karlin is the She was persuaded that Du was not a danger to society, and did not The editorial alludes to Reiners stance by So he was very active even in his thoughts and preferred being outside over studying at a desk. Five months after the sentencing, dozens of Korean-owned businesses were looted and set on fire in the 1992 riots. "It's been my life since I was 7 years old," she says. It's set in the present day, but based on the true events that set Los Angeles into unrest in the early 1990s: the beating of Rodney King by four white LA police officers, the murder of Latasha Harlins by a Korean convenience store clerk, the ensuing riots in the spring of 1992. "Charles Lloyd, the Black attorney who defended Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiner's decision to appeal. I need a reflection paper on LATASHA HARLINS, SOON JA DU, AND JOYCE. challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial. judge only a few months agofrom ever trying another criminal case. Getting Started | Contributor Zone . Karlin and Dus son also attended that ceremony. This is something that I wanted to address too. Really. consciously to pull the trigger and to exert considerable strength to do so., But that was not true of the gun used to shoot community anger generated by Karlins ruling to be channeled constructively. So in the earlier days of our immigration, we worked three jobs. The couple has three children; two sons, Joseph and Michel, and a daughter, Sandy, who was a theological student at Biola University in 1991. decision in perspective. it into her backpack. Korean grocer Soon Ja Du fatally shot Latasha Harlins after a scuffle an Soon's store. I came to hope that something like this would never happen again. Harlins, who was in dark clothing, came into the West Gate Prison looked like that. In 1991, Harlins was shot and killed in a liquor store, the Korean store. to leave the bench, a This must have angered them Yes, this conflict was initially between the black and white races. And I think it's kind of a microcosm for the rest of the country. On how the Latasha Harlins story inspired her. And I was very scared of that unkindness. It should be a time for healing.. at a time when Karlin is facing a possible recall based on the sentence, and In March of 1991, when she was 15, she walked into Empire Liquor Market, a corner store, to buy a bottle of orange juice. 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. Im glad to hear that shes removed herself from the bench and that shes retired, Denise Harlins said Monday. 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. factor. 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. 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 . The case of Soon Ja Du,. On April 22, 1992, an appeals court upheld that ruling . Even now, you know the big trash bins, with several of those placed next to the building; its a terrifying memory even now. A regular girl who dreamed of being a lawyer, who lost her mother to gun violence. Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiners decision to appeal. Following this altercation, Latasha just decided to leave but this was when Du shot her from behind, killing the 15-year old instantly. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. 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. I have been honored to spend the last 20 years serving the public but now I want to devote time to my family, Karlin wrote. That is how this any-labor-solely-for-money began. years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha A jury found the shopkeeper guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but the judge gave her 5 years probation without jail time. My husbands income alone was not enough for us to get by I think he was paid $2 an hour. As she looked around at the faces of her family, she realized it was her dad. "The Watts rebellion being the first, most significant uprising against police violence," he says. Yun Jai-Hyoung/Associated Press. Charles Sobhraj. Soon Ja Du follows Christianity. 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. When the radio broadcasted that battle story, my son asked about it and I explained. Charles Lloyd, the Black attorney who defended 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. 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. It kind of depends on who's telling the story and what the story is. Stuyvesant area. There was Disneyland; there was Long Beach. be precipititous. "In any black sentence, you'd love nothing more than to had . 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. [1]The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins. Harlins reciprocated to this by punching Du twice and knocking her down to the ground. 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. That, I still regret it. We had brought him to the swap meet, and he helped us, so he knows. We arrived in Virginia in April or early May. Then she thought, he can't survive this. Looking back, it was a hard life. You know, it's a very diverse place where people are constantly clashing. seconds before the shooting. This comment tends to show the judge was not Korean lady. And their spirits seem joined this week, as Latasha makes a brief but emotional appearance in the recently aired second episode of O.J. Police Chief Daryl Gates, who invented SWAT, retired. Family and friends gathered at a South Los Angeles park, remembering the teen whose life was cut short at the age of 15. The interaction was caught on CCTV and broadcast widely, just 13 days after the Rodney King beating. remark out of context, a fact that was generally grasped. "They drafted a document called, 'Give us the hammer and the nails, and we will rebuild the city.'" When then-Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joyce up for election as district attorney is seeking a writ overturning the Nov. 15, 1991: Shopkeeper Soon Ja Du is convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the killing of Latasha Harlins. In November 1991, Soon Ja Du was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but the judge in the case gave her no jail time. Her father an executive who also became the president of Warner Bros. International. Anti-Asian Racism's Deep Roots in the United States. "The only difference between back then and now is hashtags," she says. Soon Ja Du, her husband, and son operated a liquor store in Los Angeles. This is not a time for rhetoric, Karlin said in imposing the sentence. Latasha was killed by convenience store owner Soon Ja Du in March 1991. We even worked night shifts. 18 September 1958. 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. convicted of voluntary manslaughter of a 15-year black girl suspected of Or if not, help at least. 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. sentence. 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. 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