After Latasha Harlins' mother died, her grandmother took her and her younger siblings in, and Latasha helped raise them too. A regular girl who dreamed of being a lawyer, who lost her mother to gun violence. 'She was just a regular teenage girl,' Harlins says. 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. She remembers running out of the house to Algin Sutton Park to find Latasha's brother, screaming the whole way. 'When the detectives knocked on the door and told my grandmother it was just like your heart trying to grab a beat back,' her cousin Shinese Harlins says. Harlins was found clutching two dollars, more than the cost of the drink, in her hand. Du accused the teenager of stealing a bottle of orange juice.

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. Thirteen days after police beat Rodney King, there was another grainy video tape capturing a horrific act of violence. 'It's been my life since I was 7 years old,' she says. 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. 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. AFP via Getty Images 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.

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