go home! it s like a bomb. we re sitting on a bomb. you can have a black person killed with a video, then this is what you ll get. this is a revolution. should people be frightened? i think people should wake up. it s 1991. wake up. we have talked at each other and about each other for a long time. it s high time we all began talking with each other. no justice, no peace! can we all get along? in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled to step out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city s 106th mayor and the city s first african-american mayor. i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. david dinkins being inaugurated on new year s day in 1990 is an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. a grandson of slaves was sworn in today a
in the back of the head. - that it should come so quickly after king, and both should be on video, i think really had the sense for many people of saying, okay, now we finally have evidence of what we ve been complaining about. - a jury convicted du of voluntary manslaughter. judge joyce karlin sentenced du to parole and community service but no jail time. - she got away with murder. - you can have a black person killed with a video, with eyewitnesses, and this is what you will get. [together] stop killing our children. we want justice. - the case has become a symbol of tensions between african-americans and the koreans who ve become successful merchants in many of the poorest black neighborhoods. - south los angeles had been kind of abandoned by a lot of commercial entities. there weren t many markets, so liquor stores became, like, the stand-in, the place that you would go for cigarettes, diapers, milk, whatever. - why don t you open a market that we can use for our family? - or go
quickly after king and both should be on video i think really had the sense for many people of saying, okay, now we finally have evidence of what we ve been complaining about. a jury convicted du of voluntary manslaughter. judge joyce carlin sentenced du to parole and community service but no jail time. he got away with murder. you can have a black person killed with a video with eyewitnesss, and this is what you ll get. stop killing our children! we want justice! the case has become a symbol of tensions between african americans and the koreans who have become successful merchants in many of the poorest black neighborhoods. south los angeles had been kind of abandoned by a lot of commercial entities. there weren t many markets. so liquor stores became like the stand-in, the place that you would go for cigarettes, diapers, milk, whatever. why don t you open a market that we can use for our families? go back to korea. every time i want to go
should be on video, i think really had the sense for many people of saying, okay, now we finally have evidence of what we ve been complaining about. a jury convicted du of voluntary manslaughter. judge joyce carlin sentenced du to parole and community service but no jail time. he got away with murder. you can have a black person killed with a video with eyewitnesss and this is what you ll get. stop killing our children. we want justice. the case has become a symbol of tensions between african-americans and the koreans who have become successful merchants in many of the poorest black neighborhoods. south los angeles had been kind of abandoned by a lot of commercial entities. there weren t many markets. so liquor stores became like the stand-in, the place you would go for cigarettes, diapers, milk, whatever. why don t you open a market that we can use for our family? go back to korea. every time i want to go i got to go down to the store make a mad enough to
another widely publicized incident captured on videotape has become a focus for ethnic tensions between the black and korean communities in los angeles. two weeks after the rodney king video goes worldwide, a young girl walks into a korean american owned grocery store to get a bottle of orange juice. security camera caught the dispute. store owner soon ja du thought 15-year-old latasha harlins was going to steal some orange juice. there was a scuffle. harlins struck du then turned to leave the store. du produced a handgun and shot harlins in the back of the head. that it should come so quickly after king and both should be on video, i think really had the sense for many people of saying, okay, now we finally have evidence of what we ve been complaining about. a jury convicted du of voluntary manslaughter. judge joyce carlin sentenced du to parole and community service but no jail time. he got away with murder. you can have a black person killed with a video with eyewitnes