Before, Joyce worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles and even presided over the Darnell Garcia case. 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. 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. . It certainly shows up in the criminal justice system Asians get hit with this image of quietness and meekness and politeness, whereas black people get hit with "you're angry," "you're violent." Lee spoke to John Ridley in an interview for the documentary "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992. The following are excerpts. Of course she must have felt the rage that led her to kill, but the action was not justifiable. But the second and third generations are the ones to lead that united Korean community, and I hope for that. The decision caused outrage in Los Angeles and a large number of Korean-owned businesses were attacked. "The only difference between back then and now is hashtags," she says. And I remember seeing news coverage of the rioting in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Grey. Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. editorial expresses this reaction: In a climate of outrage by members of the black community manslaughter. "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." So in my family, since we only had sons and I was the only daughter, all my family persuaded me against it. And the broadcasters painted it as a conflict between Koreans and blacks and made it big, in my opinion. the .38 revolver Du used to shoot Harlins had been stolen from the family and on Nov. 15 to 10 years in state prison, but suspended the sentence and placed Brenda E. Stevenson's The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the L.A. shooting was captured on the stores surveillance tape and widely shown by the Ira Reiner is only bringing more heat to an already overheated murder "Every single period of mass rebellion has always produced a moral panic," Kelley says. And I think a lot about what the writer's responsibility is. How? She will have to live with this every day for the rest of her life.. 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. at Westchester High School, came within two weeks after the Rodney King beating Before her appointment to the bench, Karlin was an assistant U.S. attorney for 14 years. Soon Ja Du is a Korean woman who co-owned the Empire Liquor Store in Vermont Vista, Los Angeles. . verdict.. Copyright 2010, Metropolitan News Company, MetNews (2017) . kill Du, who got a .38 caliber handgun from beneath the counter, unaware that his assault on a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner, Daniel Calabro (since Last year, on the 30th anniversary of Lastaha Harlins' death, the family unveiled a memorial mural at that park, part of its mission to keep her memory alive. So they had live broadcast soliciting help for that. But by then I did not have the luxury of dreaming on any longer; all the dreams had dissipated. Karlin found that Du overreacted, but that her In the local station's original interview with Ja Du, the reporter identifies Ja Du as a "transsexual" and. Consequently, people in the community felt that there were different standards of justice for different races. Two weeks after officers with the LAPD furiously beat Rodney King after a traffic stop, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins lost her life when a convenience store owner named Soon Ja Du shot . Following this altercation, Latasha just decided to leave but this was when Du shot her from behind, killing the 15-year old instantly. it into her backpack. Soon Ja Du killed Latasha Harlin over a bottle of orange juice worth $1.79. In July, post the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Harlins family was awarded $300,000 in the settlement. So thats when we were in such terror, thinking, What do we make of this? When the radio broadcasted that battle story, my son asked about it and I explained. I generally thought the United States was a country that helped realize any young persons dream. 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. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. "You have LBJ saying cops are frontline soldiers against the rebellions.". Soon Ja Du was 77 years old when an article on AP News (dated April 27, 2017) was published, and it also stated that she is residing in the San Fernando Valley. we regard as abominably bad judgment, we applaud his forthright and prompt 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. MetNews reports: on Dec. 23, before any It suggested that former gang members work with police, going on ride-alongs to change the nature and reception of policing. judge from a casewithout an explanation. She now usesthough she didnt thenthe surname of her husband, But I'm also aware that it's not the same struggle. I was full of hopes. No wonder, was it, that it huffed and heaved, ready to blow. Soon's husband, Bill Heung Ki Du heard the gunshot then ran into the store, when he got there Soon appeared confused . 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. discretion as their consciences dictate. I heard this story myself. But was that reaction understandable? Lora King has a role in it, as Harlins' guidance counselor, because the families are connected. Reiner failed to put Karlins sentencing So it scared me, and I did not like the darkness that resembled the prison color. community by exposing the jurist as a racistwhich he wasnt. This comes So the Korean radio back then used to call out on young people to come out to the streetsSo he said he needed to go out. That day, around 10 oclock, around then, a woman called Radio Korea. In 1991, she became a Superior Court judge, which is when the case of Latasha Harlins occurred. Money comes and goes. On April 22, 1992, an appeals court upheld that ruling . While use of a gun ordinarily You know, in all these different arenas, Asian Americans are able to code white, and black Americans just are not. Soon Ja Du, age 60s, lives in Los Angeles, CA. Du foi julgada e condenada por homicdio . While disapproving the jurys recommendation of 16 years of imprisonment, Joyce Karlin stated. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. Soon Ja Du started off working as a couch assembler, and then, turned into a crotchetier in a garment factory, St. John Knits. seconds before the shooting. This comment tends to show the judge was not Considering that Joyce gave a stricter sentence to a man from Glendale for kicking a dog, Dus punishment seemed like a farce to many. 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. MetNews reports: Reiner acknowledgedyesterday that a successful But he had left, and so had most of the people he knew. She was terrified, until the man smiled. . "I would argue that the backlash that we identify with the post-92 rebellion is actually a manifestation of a backlash to 1965," he says. That, I still regret it. Latasha died with $2 in her hand.. challenger had declared candidacy, setting forth in its editorial: Inherent in our endorsement of Karlin is the throwing kerosene on this thing. hide caption. The death of Latasha came only 13 . It was at this location that Soon Ja Du would shoot Latasha Harlins on March 16, 1991. Im saddened for the system that were going to be losing her.. Soon Ja Du, a 51-year-old Korean woman who suspected Latasha was trying . Patrick Jarenwattananon adapted it for the Web. 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. In the spring of 1992, however, she was elected to Californias Superior Court, with 51% votes. "She wanted to make sure her sister and brother were cool, that they had they head on strong," says Shinese Harlins. 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. with a postcard denial has, instead, induced an order to show cause. Following this, the Los Angeles County District Attorney issued a policy that did not let Joyce judge violent felony cases. told that gang members dress in all black. . Many uninsured businesses never re-opened, uprooting the lives of Korean-American families who had labored for years to build their livelihoods from scratch. Should a jurist be blackballed for one controversial Hide Archive footage (2 credits) 2017 The Nineties (TV Mini Series documentary) Self - Defendant. A jury found the shopkeeper guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but the judge gave her 5 years probation without jail time. Supreme Court, which was denied July 16, 1992. 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. These would be relevant factors only in explaining an intentional the weight given to judges. 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. respectability to District Attorney Ira Reiners politically motivated stunt in The store was owned and operated by a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du and her family. Joyce A. Karlin, the judge whose light sentencing of a Korean-born grocer in the 1991 shooting of a 15-year-old black girl inflamed already simmering racial tensions in Los Angeles, said Monday that she was resigning from the bench. [1]The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins. 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. November 14, 2017. I was not able to communicate in English, and I felt looked down on. You know, I started writing this book in 2014 right after Michael Brown's murder. Even when he was young, he would go camping or fishing to somewhere far. The Her father may have been the subject of the first viral video of police violence, but he was not the last. remark out of context, a fact that was generally grasped. And I was very scared of that unkindness. After Latasha Harlins' mother died, her grandmother took her and her younger siblings in, and Latasha helped raise them too. Joyce Karlin-The trial judge in Du vs Harlins case, Did Mrs. Du react inappropriately? Getting by was the priority, so we were not choosy over which job to work at. . 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. It is not a time for revenge. 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. With George Floyd's sister," she pauses and shakes her head. community in 1991 for placing on probation a Korean-American shopkeeper 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. "That narrative kind of deflected the public attention from police violence," says Kyeyoung Park, a professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. cohorts have deferred to the noise-makers. Ja Du is part . Powered by WordPress.com VIP. SOON JAH DUE Can ya confirm or deny that this is a Play on words. sentence that had the practical effect of nullifying the jury verdict., In explaining her sentence, Karlin noted that By portraying their deaths, these films depict Asian American mothers as worthy of the same care, sympathy, and compassion that they bestow on their . returned with a hairpin trigger that, she said, in effect made the gun an 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. Since childhood, Eddie had a sense of justice and was full of energy. Then he said, This is it! Lets go out, mother, and throw at least one stone and stop this.The radio broadcast seemed to be firmly convinced in stating that the blacks were invading in, that the blacks were targeting Koreans, and that it was a conflict between Koreans and blacks.. The Harlins family was awarded $300,000. Gabriella Angotti-Jones/for NPR 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. In so doing, they have more severely Harlins then backed away, but Du angrily threw a stool at her, but it didnt hit Harlins. Karlin (since retired from the bench) came under attack in the African-American community anger generated by Karlins ruling to be channeled constructively. account. "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. 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. African-American leaders have called for the A year before the verdict, storekeeper Soon Ja Du shot and killed Black ninth grader Latasha Harlins. But when I went to a market, I would be met by stares of people looking at me as a stranger. One customer, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins, selected a bottle of orange juice in the back of the store. . MetNews endorsed Karlin on Dec. 23, before any But never in my dream, had I ever imagined that my son would go there. 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. I wanted to go out, too, honestly. reference to the possibility that the shooting was accidental was more of an On March 16, 1991, a 15-year-old girl named Latasha Harlins was shot and killed at Empire Liquor in South Central, Los Angeles. When The Times had endorsed one of her opponents, she wrote them a strongly worded letter stating, 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 verdictthen the judicial system and the freedoms it guarantees will be destroyed.. Soon Ja Du, the store owner, falsely accused. "I have a bond with Eric Garner's daughter. 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. 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. 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. Hes "In the sixties under LBJ, you have the law enforcement assistance act of 1965," Kelley says, speaking of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Intersections South LA: The L.A. rebellion of 1992 occurred over 20 years ago. But from their perspective, Koreans did not seem to have suffered much, yet came to their neighborhood and made easy money and became well off. Soon Ja Du, 51, left, leaves court with her husband, Billy Hong Ki Du, in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 1992. - Can We All Get Along? order to show cause why a writ should not be granted. When the passport was issued, he told me about it: that we would go live in the United States. Karlin, a former federal prosecutor appointed to the bench by Gov. 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. the time of sentencing reveals with certainty that Karlin was of such mind that language barriers and cultural misunderstandings. over the leniency shown Du, the publicityseeking, vote-coveting demagogue whos It came out of the gang truce between Crips and Bloods, a truce made a day before the riots. 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. 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. number of children. "I have a few of those bonds," King says. 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 On April 30, 1992 Edward was fatally shot by crossfire. Harlins supposedly threatened to On the journalist character, who reports on the girl who is killed in the story. decision to challenge the sentence: Although Reiners announcement to appeal She didnt do nothing!. A store video camera captured the incident, which came just two weeks after LAPD officers were videotaped beating Rodney G. King. Atty. But many Koreans take out loans from members of their 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. connection with the fatal shooting the previous March 16. [Karlin] could have [ordered] a new trial, or 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. In memory of the losses suffered in 1992, Korean-Americans call the unrest "Sa-I-Gu," or 4-2-9 in native pronunciation. 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. 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. uncomfortable suspicion of a politician trying to use a communitys collective retired), when he sought to draw political support from the African-American to leave the bench, a Ordinarily, this would funeral expenses, and perform 400 hours of community service. the presiding judge of the court, Ricardo Torres, is likewise targeted just Soon Ja Du claimed that she was in fear for her life when she shot Latasha Harlins in the back of the head. In 2018, she was invited by the French authorities to create four windows for Chartres Cathedral. In Korea, I met my husband. A writ petition that ordinarily would have met Through her sentencing, Karlin labeled Soon Ja Du's lifestyle as appropriate, while chastising and criminalizing Harlins for behaving differently, for being different. rare. . I respect everyone on this School Board. get loans for such enterprises when foreign-born merchants can. Soon Ja Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Harlins' death but served no jail time. sentence fell within the guidelines. It was more than the broken bones and the brain damage, it was the emotional scars as well, the trauma. Also, Karlin found that the victim, Latasha Reiner said he will order his staff At that point, she was working in the Juvenile Dependency Court. threatened judicial independence than any judge-bashers on the outside, for Those of us of the first generation, including myself and others, have no particular strength. Rodney King survived that beating, but his daughter says he carried its scars until he died in 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. The woman [who shot Harlins] was named Du Soonja. 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. During the 1992 L.A. uprising, Lees 18-year old son, Edward Jae Song Lee entered the fray to help protect his Koreatown neighborhood, which was virtually abandoned by police. It was so swollen and bruised. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Dus store was looted and burned down, and it never reopened. mandated that Karlin vacate the sentence. healing wont be helped along by Reiners outburst. And their spirits seem joined this week, as Latasha makes a brief but emotional appearance in the recently aired second episode of O.J. Soon Ja Du Wiki, Age, Husband . Instead, she [issued a] challengers. 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? Soon Ja Du. decision to seek a writ overturning the sentence. It was an emergency situation to learn of the rioters being up there. The event was. Harlins reciprocated to this by punching Du twice and knocking her down to the ground. She was walking to the liquor store with her sister and when they got there, it was on fire. 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. UCLA history professor Robin D.G. I think that event led Koreans to a different thinking. He's throwing kerosene on this thing. 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. Soon Ja Du with her husband Billy Heung Ki Du. 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. 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. 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. Would you like to come over to my house for a meal?' In 1992, Karlin was the only one of 82 Superior Court judges to face electoral opposition. That had a profound impact on me personally. The cashier, a woman named Soon Ja Du, accused her of shoplifting. The property later became a market under different ownership. 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. they have given credence to the cause of those who would bully trial judges 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 true that the appeals court has not Karlin and Dus son also attended that ceremony. Lora King, daughter of Rodney King and CEO of the Rodney King Foundation, and her son, Raymond Price, 2, exit a tour bus before the start of the press conference. #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. 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. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. This, too, assumes a 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. The police established that Latasha had no intention of shoplifting after talking to 2 witnesses and reviewing the security tapes. Harlins, who was in dark clothing, came into the A policeman, a soldier, he always wanted to become one. But she didnt belong [on the bench] anyway. However, many of her colleagues, including Superior Court Judge Stephen Czuleger, said they would miss working with her, and that she was dedicated and hard-working. 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