This incident does not stand alone. In fact, there is a long history of black-Asian conflict in America, and tensions were especially high in the early 1990s in New York and Los Angeles. In 1990, the Flatbush boycott , also known as the Family Red Apple boycott, broke out following the assault of a Haitian woman by employees of the Korean-owned grocery in Brooklyn’s predominately-black Flatbush neighbourhood. Black protestors called for the boycott of all Korean-owned stores. In 1991, convenience store owner Soon Ja Du shot and killed 15-year-old Latasha Harlins after she wrongly accused Harlins of trying to shoplift a bottle of orange juice from her South Los Angeles store; a security camera video showed the girl had money in her hand to pay for it. Du didn’t serve any jail time. Harlins’ death is cited as a catalyst to the 1992 Los Angeles riots , in which Korean-owned stores were targeted, looted, and destroyed. Fast-forward to March last year, when black community members in Charlotte, NC protested Missha Beauty store after owner Sung Ho Lim was filmed choking a black female customer he suspected of stealing. These infamous incidents have become emblematic of black-Korean conflict, which has been widely documented and researched