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. Latasha, 15, was fatally shot in a liquor store.
When she thinks of her father now, she doesn't think of that video. She thinks of his smile."His smile was electric to me," she says. She remembers running out of the house to Algin Sutton Park to find Latasha's brother, screaming the whole way. Last year, on the 30th anniversary of Lastaha Harlins' death, the family unveiled"She was just a regular teenage girl," Harlins says. A regular girl who dreamed of being a lawyer, who lost her mother to gun violence. After Latasha Harlins' mother died, her grandmother took her and her younger siblings in, and Latasha helped raise them too.
"We had just moved to the heart of South Central LA on 55th and Western," she says. She was walking to the liquor store with her sister and when they got there, it was on fire. They turned around and raced home.Shinese Harlins says her mother put out a fire that someone started at Empire Liquors, the store owned by Soon Ja Du and her family.
"It was a rebellion against the beating of Rodney King captured on video," he says — but it was more than that. It was also an awakening of the"collective memory of all the other people who were beaten, but were never caught on camera." Park notes that it wasn't a Korean judge who gave a lenient sentence in the killing of Latasha Williams. It wasn't a Korean jury that declared the four police officers not guilty in the beating of Rodney King. And it was banks, not Korean grocers, who denied loans to Black businesses so that most businesses in Black communities were owned by outsiders.
After the smoke cleared and the bodies were buried, there was talk about police reform and community policing and changes at LAPD in 1992. Police Chief Daryl Gates, who invented SWAT, retired.
UCLA history professor Robin D.G. Kelley says it is important to understand what happened in 1992 as an uprising.
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