Self - Defendant. Edit View history Latasha Harlins (January 1, 1976 - March 16, 1991) was an African-American girl who was fatally shot at age 15 by Soon Ja Du ( Korean: ), a 49-year-old Korean-American convenience store owner. On Feb. 10, 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. It was Shawn's home, where his mother and sister had lived and died. . Latasha Harlins ( East St. Louis, 14 de julho de 1975 - Los Angeles, 16 de maro de 1991) foi uma afro-americana de 15 anos de idade que foi fatalmente assassinada a tiros por Soon Ja Du, uma mulher coreana de 51 anos de idade, dona de uma loja de convenincia. He left in September 2014. Or if not, help at least. kill this girl. Unlike the LAPD officers, Du was convicted of voluntary manslaughter with the jury. and underscored tensions between the Korean and black communities. Those of us of the first generation, including myself and others, have no particular strength. She was walking to the liquor store with her sister and when they got there, it was on fire. that consideration, she would have come to the same sentencing conclusion. Latasha Harlins. polls.. 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. We earned about $300-400 combined. Something might happen. We sensed it. A store video camera captured the incident, which came just two weeks after LAPD officers were videotaped beating Rodney G. King. media. remark out of context, a fact that was generally grasped. accidentally, Karlin said, and a woman of Mrs. Dus size would have to decide We arrived in Virginia in April or early May. the publics protector. How? Harlins supposedly threatened to miscarriage of justice and swore to keep Karlina former prosecutor made a Ordinarily, this would In 1974, Joyce graduated fromLoyola University Chicago School of Law. 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. Court, Ricardo Torres, has in numerous instances this past year displayed what In all, over 300 businesses were burned and looted in the district, with damage exceeding $200 million. Soon Ja Du is a Korean woman who co-owned the Empire Liquor Store in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. But here, any candidacy would be grounded on opposition to 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. 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. He can appeal, but he wont be That is how this any-labor-solely-for-money began. And he saw the fear and rancor here, in the ones who'd stayed. Hes pandering to the public, and I think its It isn't like they have all the resources and power or, you know, privilege.". Would you like to come over to my house for a meal?' "There was an interview that the local ABC affiliate did with one of . it into her backpack. number of children. hide caption. In memory of the losses suffered in 1992, Korean-Americans call the unrest "Sa-I-Gu," or 4-2-9 in native pronunciation. That day, around 10 oclock, around then, a woman called Radio Korea. Five, in an order by Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby, issued an factor. 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. 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. require rehabilitation or incapacitation. But Kelley says backlash to protests against police violence continued. MetNews reports: on Dec. 23, before any language barriers and cultural misunderstandings. The store was owned and operated by a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du and her family. So without knowing the full story, I just thought, wow, shes badly beaten. But I dont think it was justifiable to kill. "In the sixties under LBJ, you have the law enforcement assistance act of 1965," Kelley says, speaking of President Lyndon B. Johnson. questions about whether the defendant intended to kill the girl. condition that she pay Harlins reciprocated to this by punching Du twice and knocking her down to the ground. 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. the weight given to judges. Karlin sentenced her 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. So when I connected the dots, I came to learn of the place, and that the young man on the paper was my son. There's a movie coming out about Latasha Harlins soon. 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. community by exposing the jurist as a racistwhich he wasnt. The couple has three children; two sons, Joseph and Michel, and a daughter, Sandy, who was a theological student at Biola University in 1991. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. SOON JAH DUE Can ya confirm or deny that this is a Play on words. clearly illegala judge cannot use a sentence as an indirect way to reduce a Joyce said this about the sentence This is not a time for rhetoric. In July, post the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Harlins family was awarded $300,000 in the settlement. On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. Dus testimony was contradicted by the two eye-witnesses and the video which was revived from the store security camera. 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. Harlins: The killing of the l5-year-old Harlins, a ninth-grader Charles Sobhraj. 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 hide caption, "And when that happens," Kelley says, "the question of white supremacy goes out the window.". own political career through denigration of some other office-holder, posing as Many black leaders reacted with outrage last November when Du, 51, received probation for the March 16, 1991, shooting. For many in Los Angeles, the two videotapes became emblems of racial injustice and inequality. perspective reinforced Du's social, legal, and moral power vis-a-vis Latasha Harlins. In 1964, the couple welcomed their first child, a boy named Pranck (aged 57 years; as of 2021). In the local station's original interview with Ja Du, the reporter identifies Ja Du as a "transsexual" and. successful.Hes just playing politics, and the people are being misled. to leave the bench, a This is not a time for rhetoric, Karlin said in imposing the sentence. As a dependency court judge, Karlin presided over cases involving abused and neglected children. Tupac and Latasha were born four years apart. My husbands income alone was not enough for us to get by I think he was paid $2 an hour. 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. It was her father's unmistakable smile. 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. Brenda E. Stevenson's The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the L.A. My husband came as a skilled worker immigrant. 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 . In 1991, she became a Superior Court judge, which is when the case of Latasha Harlins occurred. More than anything grand, I imagined that I would work in a big office building, where I would go to work early in the morning, and leave by 5pm and have a plenty of leisure time for hobbies, like eating out at a fancy restaurant. The Nov. 27 issue of the the time of sentencing reveals with certainty that Karlin was of such mind that An angry Du then threw a chair at the kid. On the journalist character, who reports on the girl who is killed in the story. seeking the writ. So in my family, since we only had sons and I was the only daughter, all my family persuaded me against it. . On March 16, 1991, Soon Ja Du fatally shot a 15-year-old African-American girl, Latasha Harlins, in her convenience store. "That's when I realized it was bigger than what I can imagine," she says. And the broadcasters painted it as a conflict between Koreans and blacks and made it big, in my opinion. Karlins campaign was guided by political decision in perspective. black teen-ager was questionable, no doubt about it. Absolutely. fact. Her father an executive who also became the president of Warner Bros. International. Soon Ja Du with her husband Billy Heung Ki Du. " 'He can appeal, but he won't be successful..He's just playing politics, and the people are being misled. 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. But was that reaction understandable? Latasha Harlins was shot in the back of the head after a violent confrontation with Korean store owner Soon Ja Du, who mistakenly believed Harlins was shoplifting. Atty. Five months after the sentencing, dozens of Korean-owned businesses were looted and set on fire in the 1992 riots. 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. 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. 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. and having the county counsel argue the validity of her action. Appeal on April 21, 1992, issued a decision denying a writ, concluding that the It was an emergency situation to learn of the rioters being up there. Filmography. In 1991, Harlins was shot and killed in a liquor store, the Korean store. Many Korean-Americans run mom-and-pop markets in black She will have to live with this every day for the rest of her life.. A year before the verdict, storekeeper Soon Ja Du shot and killed Black ninth grader Latasha Harlins. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Dus store was looted and burned down, and it never reopened. The bullet struck Harlins in the head, killing her, and the 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. In 2018, she was invited by the French authorities to create four windows for Chartres Cathedral. we regard as abominably bad judgment, we applaud his forthright and prompt ADVERTISEMENT 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. 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. consciously to pull the trigger and to exert considerable strength to do so., But that was not true of the gun used to shoot Du accused the teenager of stealing a bottle of orange juice. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. her on five years of probation, on condition that she pay Soon Ja Du, said that he was not bothered by Reiners decision to appeal. "Because for instance, Korean Americans, they're not the richest people. She learned early that she could never escape the events set in motion that night her father was beaten and long ago she stopped trying. Karlin defended her sentence of Du as within legal guidelines, a decision made after careful deliberation on the evidence. I was not able to communicate in English, and I felt looked down on. at Westchester High School, came within two weeks after the Rodney King beating "They drafted a document called, 'Give us the hammer and the nails, and we will rebuild the city.'" Harlins case has been so painful and sensitive that one is left with the editorial expresses this reaction: In a climate of outrage by members of the black community Even now, you know the big trash bins, with several of those placed next to the building; its a terrifying memory even now. It must be noted that the store did not reopen after that day. respectability to District Attorney Ira Reiners politically motivated stunt in It is not a time for revenge. Wiki/Biography Soon Ja Du was born on Saturday, December 27, 1941 ( age 79 years; as of 2020 ), in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It is not a time for revenge. It kind of depends on who's telling the story and what the story is. A Dec. 4 news article in the Sentinel, a Soon Ja Du is a Korean woman who co-owned the Empire Liquor Store in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. 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. Once there, the teenager put the required item in her bag and then headed to the counter with money in her hand. "You have LBJ saying cops are frontline soldiers against the rebellions.". perfectly legalbut is it wise? hide caption. When the radio broadcasted that battle story, my son asked about it and I explained. Du foi julgada e condenada por homicdio . Beach, is now a mediator. 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. 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. contradicted the jury, and in so doing, based her sentence on an impermissible 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. Then many Koreans, after I had already immigrated to the United States, came in the 80s. She has the option of not doing so, She graduated from a university in Seoul, South Korea, where she studied literature. And I also remember after Mike Brown was killed, The New York Times ran a piece saying he was "no angel." She had a knack for working with attorneys, social workers and the staff, and for dealing with abused, battered and neglected children.. Shinese Harlins-Kilgore wears a shirt with her cousin Latasha Harlins' photo. Joyce retired from her position in 1997 to spend some more time with her family. He had a strong personality and wanted to become a soldier, a policeman or such even when he went on to junior high and senior high, he still dreamed on of the same. Riots examines the tragic death of a fifteen-year-old black girl on March 16, 1991, and its repercussions. 51-year-old Korean-born female store owner Soon Ja Du shot 15-year-old Harlin in the back of the head in 1991. But And as I did not work, I did not have much contact with people. "There was another plan for reconstruction after 92." It was more than the broken bones and the brain damage, it was the emotional scars as well, the trauma. But never in my dream, had I ever imagined that my son would go there. 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 . Chased out, priced out, native children living in exile. You know, I started writing this book in 2014 right after Michael Brown's murder. When she saw him afterwards, she didn't recognize his face. On November 15, 1991, the jury found Du guilty and delivered the verdict stating that Du fired the gun voluntarily. Then Radio Korea without verifying, well there was no such verification process then, they just had to believe incoming reports. You know, it's a very diverse place where people are constantly clashing. . Karlin said she would remain involved in the juvenile justice system, pursing volunteer work in that area. out in favor of the candidacy of Judge Joyce Karlin, and against the lynch-mob City News Service report ably summarizes the case which had roused emotions six "It's been my life since I was 7 years old," she says. Pete Wilson, could have sentenced Du to 16 years in state prison. acting under the misimpression that this was simply an accidental shooting. His actions in this instance were reminiscent of This, too, assumes a 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. 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. So we said amongst ourselves that this shouldnt be. told that gang members dress in all black. decision to challenge the sentence: Although Reiners announcement to appeal I mostly worked downtown or in Koreatown, so I did not have much trouble with Hispanic or black people. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. ensued, which led to punches being thrown. We had brought him to the swap meet, and he helped us, so he knows. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. I was full of hopes. 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. 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. Her father was a doctor, and her mother was a nurse. 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. Lee spoke to John Ridley in an interview for the documentary "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992. The following are excerpts. Really. 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. 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 . 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. 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 When it came to work, because our/his English was limited, there were no available opportunities. 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. Du, then 51, confronted her about it and an argument The death of Latasha came only 13 . . 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. And I found that really interesting. 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. Her sentence seemed to have the opposite effect, however; she became the target of protests and an unsuccessful recall campaign. Latasha, 15, was fatally shot in a liquor store. Karlin found that Du overreacted, but that her She was given probation and paid the family 500.00 dollars. A regular girl who dreamed of being a lawyer, who lost her mother to gun violence. Korean grocer Soon Ja Du fatally shot Latasha Harlins after a scuffle an Soon's store. But how the broadcasters continued to put Koreatown into focus and made an issue out of it, both puzzled and enraged us. years earlier involving shopkeeper Soon Ja Du and the slain girl, Latasha The editorial alludes to Reiners stance by She thinks of his smile. soon ja du Rate the pronunciation difficulty of soon ja du 0 /5 Very easy Easy Moderate Difficult Very difficult Pronunciation of soon ja du with 1 audio pronunciations 0 rating Record the pronunciation of this word in your own voice and play it to listen to how you have pronounced it. #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. 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. In fact, the store had a reputation of accusing kids in the neighborhood for shoplifting when they didnt buy something. I thought for sure he would die. With George Floyd's sister," she pauses and shakes her head. Taken in context, it is clear that Karlins Protesters, led by Latasha Harlins aunt, Denise, marched outside her Manhattan Beach home and the Compton courthouse where she worked. She didnt do nothing!. she would have imposed the same sentence had she not taken this factor into That is I had that responsibility in mind as I wrote this book, that I wanted to make sure that even though these characters are fictional, that I treated them like they were real people. A writ petition that ordinarily would have met Reiner announced his throwing kerosene on this thing. Acting Presiding Justice Herbert Ashby and his 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 regard to the qualifications of that yet-to-emerge soul. The tragic killing of Latasha Harlins is often regarded as one of the precursors of the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. "I have a few of those bonds," King says. Also, she had used an illegally modified handgun that required less pressure to fire than the usual ones. "The Watts rebellion being the first, most significant uprising against police violence," he says. furor that will in all probability propel someone into challenging her at the And so I can see it happening in LA I mean, but I can also see it happening in any major city. As he had in the past, often, he sought to advance his title. $500 to the restitution fund, reimburse the girls family for medical and The Harlins family was awarded $300,000. discharged. Words were exchanged. 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. case by joining in the criticism so vociferously. That still holds true today, he says. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. However, many felt that the court was lenient with Soon Ja Du only because of her race. 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. 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. Getting by was the priority, to establish a living. His way of thinking was more mature than of his peers. Harlins, was not especially vulnerable, having used her fists as weapons just Thankfully I lived without conflict until then. In saying that Du didnt mean to fire the gun, he proclaims, Karlin In her written statement, Karlin said her resignation would become effective next month. . "We had just moved to the heart of South Central LA on 55th and Western," she says. Soon's husband, Bill Heung Ki Du heard the gunshot then ran into the store, when he got there Soon appeared confused . Exactly one week later the verdict came back for the four officers in Rodney King's case: Not Guilty. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. That, I still regret it. In the beginning, we brought our son to work. Karlin and Dus son also attended that ceremony. killing. People talked of a possible riot, rising up, led by blacks.The word spread through calls, so we closed the stores and came home. This is how I frankly viewed the issue: blacks had been oppressed for hundreds of years and were subject to racial discrimination that was further evidenced in the court ruling. Justine Kenin and Jolie Myers produced and edited this interview for broadcast. 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. The case of Soon Ja Du,. Harlins, who was in dark clothing, came into the 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. uncomfortable suspicion of a politician trying to use a communitys collective 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. In Korea, I met my husband. One customer, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins, selected a bottle of orange juice in the back of the store. 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. . 18 September 1958. issues in recent weeks, said the action against Karlin was unusual, but not Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR We were busy making money, raising kids and sending them to a good school and feeding them good food. She then seemed to fall unconscious. They lived as slaves, if you look at history, and finally in the 1960s, through Martin Luther King, came this far. Family and friends gathered at a South Los Angeles park, remembering the teen whose life was cut short at the age of 15. Reiner Mounts Assault on Judge Joyce Karlin Over Sentencing of 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. community anger generated by Karlins ruling to be channeled constructively. 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