In the prosecutions opening statement, Carvajal said the gun used by Du had been altered by someone so that the trigger could be pulled with little pressure. One of the businesses targeted was Du's store, Empire Liquor, which was burned to the ground and has never re-opened. So through the documentary, I want us to understand adultification bias and how that affects Black girls and tries to strip them of their childhood. She was trying to walk out the door, said Lakeshia Combs, Alis sister and another witness. Work on the film became harder, she says, when she reached the point in the film when she had to reveal what happened to Latasha. "[40], Karlin became the target of protests and an unsuccessful recall campaign. because of the force he was using.. Photo editor Leonor Mamanna interviews Alice Proujansky about the practical challenges of shooting and publishing a personal project. But Judge Joyce Karlin gave Du probation instead. By this time, a city-wide curfew had been enforced. They also share the impact that Harlins death has had on their own lives. And so I think it is so important for that visibility to exist so Black girls know how worthy their lives are. [4] The killing of Harlins came 13 days after the videotaped beating of Rodney King. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. This is not television. And theres no protection for Black girls when we have to rely on a system that is deeply rooted in white supremacy. But what is justice today is justice always. Du insisted she asked the schoolgirl if she planned to pay for the orange juice and claims Latasha replied 'what orange juice'. A Love Song for Latasha is a 2019 American biographical documentary short film directed by Sophia Nahli Allison. Do you find this information helpful? How 15-Year-Old Latasha Harlins Murder Over A Bottle Of Orange Juice Helped Spark The L.A. So after that, I'm at the free-throw line, and our cousin T ran into the gym screaming. OBard reads a poem that Latasha Harlins wrote, and cries. [12] After speaking with the two eyewitnesses present and viewing the videotape of the incident, recorded by a store security camera, the police concluded that Harlins intended to pay for the beverage with money in hand. I remember when I watched Eves Bayou and when I watched Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. Latasha Harlins became a victim of these racial tensions on the morning of Saturday, March 16, 1991. After they had scouted a church they wanted to film, they returned just as the deacons wife was walking in with her two young daughters. [7] The film was released on Netflix on September 21, 2020. Our premiere educational content channel. After speaking to his wife, who asked for the whereabouts of Harlins before fainting, he dialed 9-1-1 to report an attempted holdup. Latasha Harlins was born January 1, 1976,[5][6] in East St. Louis, Illinois, to Crystal Harlins and Sylvester "Vester" Acoff Sr. Latasha had one younger brother, Vester Acoff Jr., and one younger sister, Christina. All contents 2023 The Slate Group LLC. [I had these] young girls who represented the future, Ty and Shinese who represented the past, myself, us representing the presentjust all these different understandings of time and conversations with each other. [1] Allison wanted to create a piece restoring the memory of Harlins' life and death to their significance in those events, which are often described only as the Rodney King riots. That is, until April of 1992, when the verdict came down for Rodney Kings assaulters. The Oriental lady started pulling on her sweater saying: Thats my orange juice, the boy testified under cross-examination by Dus lawyer. Harlins approached the counter with cash in hand. She will die in front of your eyes.. Obsessed with Netflix? Los Angeles Times/GettyKorean grocer Soon Ja Du in court, after she fatally shot Latasha Harlins in the back of the head. A New Documentary Celebrates Her Life", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Love_Song_for_Latasha&oldid=1141558250, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Janice Duncan (Creative Producer) Fam Udeorji (Producer) Sophia Nahli Allison (Producer) Aubrey Aden-Buie (Executive Producer) Elisa Gambino (Executive Producer), Shinese Harlins and Tybie O'Bard, Raigan Alex, Zoe Flint, Shinese Harlins, Brittany Hudson (as Irie Hudson), Tybie O'Bard, Londyn Sharp, English (original), Turkish, French, Italian, German, This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 17:32. Joyce Karlin, the judge on the trial disagreed and overruled the jury's decision. It also shows Du pointing a handgun and Harlins dropping to the floor, mortally wounded. She made the short walk to the market and picked up a $1.79 bottle of orange. The girl was saying: Let me go. People Cant Stop Fighting Over the Politics of the, The Quarterback Conundrum at the Very Top of the NFL Draft. And I really believe in collaboration to inform the process, to help inspire the visuals, and I wanted to share their truth, their memories, as a way to fill in this archival gap. EN. For help with production, she turned to her childhood friend Fam Udeorji, who has worked as creative producer on the Childish Gambino video This is America, written for the TV show Atlanta, and was the music supervisor for Creed II. Udeorji advised Allison on sound editing and music licensing, and helped her with logistics, locations and casting during the two years she was shooting the film., At a gathering of filmmakers, Allison met Janice Duncan, who had worked as a director and producer on fictional features. Harlins responded by lifting up her hand, which contained two dollar bills, and explained that she intended to pay. Black customers were continuously frustrated by what they saw as rudeness and price-gouging on that part of Korean store clerks, as well as store owners refusal to hire any black employees. I for one am sick and tired of less than five percent of this community trying to tell the rest of us what to do, what to think, and what to say. Two were found guilty, Officer Laurence Powell and Sergeant Stacey Koon, while two were acquitted. Du was tried and convicted of voluntary manslaughter over the killing of Harlins, based in part on security camera footage. The court also stated that Du shot Harlins under extreme provocation and duress and deemed it unlikely that Du would ever commit a serious crime again. Rodney was awarded $3.8million in damages from the City of Los Angeles and was found dead in 2012 from accidental drowning. But she didn't belong [on the bench] anyway. 20072023 Blackpast.org. All rights reserved. [30] Korean immigrant shop-owners had a growing presence in black communities since before the 1970s. In the years following Harlins killing, rapper Tupac Shakur provided her with a little hint of justice by ensuring that her name would never be completely forgotten. [31] The distrust ran possibly even further, because in the same editorial the writer exclaims, "The real question is, why was my brother's brains blown out fighting for those Koreans?" And a little girl didn't have enough money. Latasha Harlins was born on July 14, 1975, in St. Louis, Illinois. Who is that really benefiting? I wanted them to feel comfortable being themselves and not feeling that they had to perform, she says. Du was arrested and her trial was held on November 15, 1991. Allison also hopes to screen it in South Central and to create community engagement programs elsewhere: Id love for other black communities to reimagine their archives, Allison says. And when I was 15, I actually lost my dad. I said I wanted to know more about Latasha beyond her death, and learn who she was as a person, Allison explains. Contact Us | Latasha Harlins voice isnt heard in the film. Why is it so important, especially now, to humanize Black girls on the screen? In March 1991, when Harlins was 15, a store owner accused her of stealing a $1.79 carton of orange juice, though she had approached the cash register with $2 in her hand. The only video that exists of her is the grainy surveillance footage that captured the last minutes of her life. I think we have a very long way to go. Im hoping that people really begin to engage with new ways of discussing Black trauma. The shopkeeper, Soon Ja Du, accused Harlins of trying to steal the juice before a scuffle broke out between the two. [2] (Harlin was shot to death by a convenience store owner only days after the police beating of King. The jury found Du guilty of voluntary manslaughter, an offense that carries a maximum prison sentence of 16 years. All rights reserved. [2] The sentencing was widely regarded as an extremely light sentence, and a failed appeal[3] contributed to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, especially the targeting of Koreatown, Los Angeles, California. When interesting scenes happened in front of them, we felt Latashas spirit with us, she says. 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Ellis: What inspired you to make A Love Song for Latasha? In reality, Latasha had been carrying the money to pay for the drink in her hand. I wanted it to feel intimate and personal and not invasive at all.. Though Allison also grew up in South Central, she didnt learn about Harlins until 2016. When I was reading about her, I was disturbed to find that all that existed of her online was the retelling of her final trauma, she recalls. The same month that King was beaten, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was shot and killed by a store clerk in South Central Los Angeles. The city was left with $1 billion in damages. It was March 1991 when Harlins had put a bottle of orange juice in her backpack in a store owned by a Korea-born shopkeeper at 92nd and Figueroa Streets. There was no audio on the tape, but the prosecutions first two witnesses--9-year-old Ismail Ali and his 13-year-old sister Lakeshia Combs--testified that there was a sharp exchange and name-calling by Du and Harlins. And thats the only way for us to really begin to engage with inclusivity. L.A. would never be the same. Latasha's parents' marriage was not a happy one and she, along with her younger siblings, had seen her father attack Crystal. It made it so much easier working with young girls, not actors, to not have a big bulky camera in their face, Allison says. How come she can she just die for one bottle of juice?" Officer Ralph Spinello told the jury that when he entered the store, Du was sitting in a chair behind a counter and her husband started slapping her at first not so hard, gradually to very hard slaps until I had to stop him . [46], Hip hop artist 2Pac took particular note of the death of Harlins and in 1993 released a song titled "Keep Ya Head Up" which was dedicated to Latasha Harlins. However, on the morning of the shooting, Du was working behind the counter, and her husband was outside resting in the family van. The neighborhood had its own host of problems during this time. For example, a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, recently killed 16-year-old MaKhia Bryant, and Ive seen people online blaming Bryant for her own death. She decided to use animation to depict Harlinss death, rather than relying solely on the surveillance video. About Us | Soon Ja Du leaves court with har husband Billy Hong Ki Du. Du was released. Only two weeks before Latasha Harlins walked into Dus Empire Liquor Market, a black man named Rodney King was pulled over by four LAPD officers, three of whom were white, for speeding. White Judge Joyce Karlin, however, gave Du probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine. I just knew that I was blessed to have an older sibling that looked after me, that loved me. Allison filmed throughout 2017 and the winter of 2018. You will see Latasha being killed. Something went wrong, please try again later. Latasha Harlins, whose short life came to a violent end in the midst of racial tensions in Los Angeles, California, became a major spark for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. The DSLR was inconspicuous when she was shooting on location in schoolyards and streets in South Central. Latasha, 15, was shot in the back of the head by a Korean woman who owned a South Los Angeles liquor store. Diversity, I think, is a really watered down word just for visibility. She adds that the film belongs in part to Ty OBard and Shinese Harlins, and she would like to use it to help them realize a memorial to their friend. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. WebLatasha Harlins. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. And she had the money in her hand to pay the lady. They came to StoryCorps to remember her. I think the police need to be stripped of all of their power. The Harlins shooting is one of several confrontations between Korean grocers in South-Central and their customers. And I wish she still had her life and was here. In cross-examining Combs and her brother, Lloyd pointed out discrepancies among statements they gave to police the day of the shooting, to the grand jury that indicted Du, and to the jury Monday. Once Allison had figured out the films narrative arc, she outlined some ideas for what footage she might shoot. Proceedings held in Compton were marked by confrontations between Dus supporters and backers of Harlins family. Black residents protested outside of the Empire Liquor Market, and Soon Ja Du was taken into custody. The death of her mother had a devastating impact on Latasha, who began to rebel and argue with her maternal grandmother and her maternal aunt Denise. She was trying to walk out the door, when she was shot, Lakeshia Combs testified. Copyright 2022 NPR. When we look at Latasha Harlins, even Judge Joyce Karlin [who presided over the trial following her death] understands why Soon Ja Du reacted the way she did. "[7] The day of the shooting is depicted in animation, intercut with VHS tape static, to heighten the sense of memory despite the lack of any home movies of Harlins. What do you think this says about the academys ability to recognize Black stories, especially those about Black girls? MaKhia Bryant. Still to this day, it's devastating for our family," Christine Harlins, her sister, said. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. She stated, "Did Mrs. Du react inappropriately? I want people to remember that Latasha was a girl, that she was a child. WebThe only video that exists of her is the grainy surveillance footage that captured the last minutes of her life. 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[29] While the jury convicted Du of manslaughter, which normally carries a maximum of 16 years in prison, the judge, Joyce Karlin, commuted her sentence to probation and a $500 finethis angered many in the black community, as well as other community members, who felt that the sentencing set a dangerous precedent. A security camera tape showed the entire heart-wrenching event on fuzzy, silent film. [7][9] Their unstable marriage eventually ended in 1983. The story of Latasha Harlins, who was killed at age 15, is explored in "A Love Song for Latasha," which scored an Oscar nomination Monday. According to a young witness named Ismail Ali, who was in the store with his older sister at the time, the middle-aged Soon Ja Du saw the girl and immediately yelled, You bitch, you are trying to steal my orange juice.. WebIn March of 1991, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was killed by one of the owners of the Empire Liquor convenience store in Los Angeles, Calif. Latasha had entered the store to buy a "[41] Since retiring from the bench Karlin has used her husband's surname Fahey. This may have been the last known photo taken of Latasha Harlins. Here's her grandmother, Ruth, who the kids call Madea (ph), remembering the day she sent Latasha to the store. But there was another case, not as widely known, that helped set off the unrest. When you say dismantling the root, what do you think that looks like? People have seen it, and I think we really need to interrogate what it means to constantly think that it is necessary to see Black trauma, to see Black death as a way to make some sort of connection or as a way to make people understand the importance and the significance and the core of it. Acoff Sr. was known to be abusive towards Crystal, attacking and beating her in front of Latasha and her younger siblings. Latasha's killer was convicted of manslaughter but served no jail time. Latasha Harlins was remembered Wednesday by a fervent crowd of about 50, including her grandmother, siblings and aunt, at a vigil in South Los Angeles in the place where she was shot. cultfacts 1.6K 31 dethb0y 3 days ago NSFW 4 dead including 3 teens in murder-suicide khou 1.5K 148 AmethystOrator 7 days ago NSFW I ran out the back of the gym, ran home. Family members said they hope Latasha's legacy evolves to be about love and justice. [28], After the widely publicized shooting of Latasha Harlins, relations between the black and Korean communities continued to deteriorate rapidly. "Latasha was defenseless. In memory, especially when trauma is involved, details are blurry, she notes. If you are a current subscriber and have not activated your pdnonline.com access, please provide the following information. Sophia Nahli Allison at the Oscars last Sunday. On the morning of March 16, 1991, though, Harlins did plan to make a purchase. [1] She originally pitched it to a documentary organization she worked for, given the approaching 25th anniversary of Latasha Harlins' 1991 death and the 1992 uprising it fueled. She had dreams in life. Du reached under the counter, retrieved a revolver, and fired at Harlins from behind at a distance of about three feet (one meter). But her testimony was contradicted by the statements of the two witnesses present at the time, as well as the store's security camera video, which showed Du shooting Harlins in the back of the head as she turned away from Du and attempted to leave the store. I felt as though she was a celebrity because everyone knew her. That footage has been widely circulated. WebOn March 16, 1991, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was shot and killed by a liquor store owner who accused her of stealing. [36] Though these ethnic tensions have not resulted in wide-scale violence since 1992, the relationship between Koreans and the black community was still strained as of 1996. Latasha King was just 15 when she was shot dead by a shop owner one Saturday morning - her death is widely thought to be one of the contributing factors to the 1992 LA Riots and Netflix series, A Love Song for Latasha, tells her tragic story. She was just always a motivating factor in my life. The riots lasted for almost a week and were, in part, triggered when four police officers were acquitted of using excessive force when they arrested Rodney King. She made sure other people had before she had. In 1982, when Latasha was six years old, her father took a job in a steel foundry while her mother worked as a waitress in a local tavern. But just for me, as a young girl, acknowledging that there was this secret language happening on the screen, it made me feel like I had a community, a place to be seen and understood. All Rights Reserved. . We could make the most beautiful films, and there are still people that would not understand what the conversation is, would not understand why its important. It becomes more important for Black girls to see themselves reflected on screens and others to see us reflect it, to humanize them, to provide some form of consciousness and some understanding of why their lives are important in general. A video of the incident was given to a local TV station and ignited international outrage. I hate the word reform. After a short scuffle, Du grabbed a 0.38-caliber handgun and shot Harlins in the back of her head. Du grabbed the bag and the two women had a violent scuffle. "We got all this racism, hate going on. When you go someplace else, youre always expecting things to be better, said her grandmother, Ruth Harlins. Latasha was shot in the back of the head and died at the scene at the Empire Liquor Market on March 16, 1991. They murdered my granddaughter!. 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