Larry Davis (born 1966), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American murderer
Date of Birth: 28-May-1966
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 20-Feb-2008
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Larry Davis (born 1966)
- Larry Davis or, since 1989, Adam Abdul-Hakeem (May 28, 1966 – February 20, 2008) was a controversial American, from the Bronx, New York, known for the unprecedented feat, perhaps never since duplicated in the United States, of standing trial for attempted murder of a police officer and yet achieving acquittal by asserting self-defense against the police.On November 19, 1986, Davis, a black man, then 20 years old, shot six New York City Police Department officers and thereby escaped effectively uninjured when, avowedly to retrieve him for questioning in the murders of suspected drug dealers, nine police officers, backed up by nearly 20 others outside the building, raided and surrounded his sister's apartment.Despite the massive, national manhunt that ensued, and despite his remaining in the city, mostly in the very same borough, Davis, aided by friends and family, eluded capture for 17 days.
- Once the search narrowed to a particular housing-project building, Davis, inside it, took shelter in an unknown family's apartment.
- There, once telephoned by the police, he claimed to be holding the occupants hostage.
- After nightlong negotiations, the presence of news reporters convinced him that the police would not shoot him, and he surrendered peacefully.In his trial, Davis's defense attorneys, including William Kunstler, depicted the police raid on his sister's apartment as a pretense to murder Davis, both to silence his knowledge of local police officers' involvement in local drug trafficking and to punish him for reneging on his own, related agreement with them.
- In 1988, the jury acquitted Davis of attempted murder of the police officers, also acquitted him of murdering the alleged drug dealers, but convicted him of weapons possession.
- Outraging many, the acquittal triggered a public protest by some 1000 police officers, whereas others, particularly urban blacks, celebrated the vindication of a folk hero who successfully resisted the allegedly corrupt police.While imprisoned for the weapons sentence, Davis was acquitted in another murder case.
- But in yet another murder trial, likewise about an alleged drug dealer, Davis, along with his brother, was convicted, and Davis received the sentence 25 years to life.
- Meanwhile, he converted to Islam and took a new name.
- Maintaining his innocence, he would continue to allege that the police had framed him.
- Particularly with an independent documentary, released in 2003, favorable to his and his attorneys' explanation about his shootout with police, the story of Larry Davis has continued to provoke divided reactions about the putative bias and corruption of police and media.
- In 2008, he died via stabbing by another inmate.
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