COMPTON — As a South Korean immigrant whose family ran a grocery store, Judge Tammy C. Ryu spoke of tension between her community and African-Americans in the early 1990s and how it inspired her to seek an assignment at the Compton Courthouse.
“With the [L.A.] riots happening and a lot of I would say tension between the Korean-American community and the African-American community, I thought that it would be great if I cam... (continued)