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- Larry Davis (* 28. Mai 1966 in New York City; † 20. Februar 2008 in , Ulster County, New York; später Adam Abdul-Hakeem) war ein Krimineller in New York, der bekannt wurde, als er am 19. November 1986 sechs Polizisten des New York City Police Departments bei einer Razzia angeschossen hatte. Er wurde nach einem spektakulären Prozess vom Vorwurf des versuchten Mordes freigesprochen. Er wurde später wegen eines anderen Mordes festgenommen und in der Haft getötet. Seine Tat erregte das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit, insbesondere weil es in der Zeit vor den Schüssen vermehrt zu Polizeibrutalität gekommen war. Dementsprechend wurde er von manchen als Held gefeiert, während andere entsetzt waren, dass er damit durchgekommen war. (de)
- Larry Davis or, since 1989, Adam Abdul-Hakeem (May 28, 1966 – February 20, 2008) was an American man who was convicted in 1991 of a drug dealer's 1986 murder, known for his 1986 shootout in the Bronx with police, in which six officers were shot. Davis, asserting self-defense, was acquitted of all charges aside from illegal gun possession. In 2008, he died via stabbing by a fellow inmate. On November 19, 1986, nine New York City police officers, with nearly 20 outside the building, raided the Bronx apartment of Davis's sister. In the ensuing shootout, Davis escaped uninjured and all six officers who had been shot survived. Police explained the raid as an attempt to question Davis as a multiple-murder suspect, finally obtained an arrest warrant for that, and reexplained the raid as an attempt to arrest him. On a massive manhunt's 17th day, he was traced to a Bronx building, and hid in an unknown family's unit. Telephoned by the police, he claimed to hold its occupants hostage. After nightlong negotiations, convinced by media presence that police would not shoot, he surrendered peacefully. Davis's legal defense, led by William Kunstler, contended that the raid was a pretense to murder Davis for knowledge of officers' alleged complicity in illicit drug sales and to punish him for abandoning his own drug dealing under them. In March 1988, on jury trial for a killing of four drug dealers—allegedly the 1986 raid's reason—Davis was acquitted. Then, in November, as to the nine raiding and six shot officers, his acquittal of aggravated assault and attempted murder triggered widespread outrage. About 1,000 New York City police officers publicly demonstrated. Yet for many others, Davis became a folk hero. Still others thought of him as an unsavory character, but probably truthful about the police and the shootout. Serving five to 15 years on the November 1988 convictions for illegal gun possession, Davis was acquitted of another alleged drug dealer's murder. But in a third murder trial, about another alleged drug dealer, Davis was convicted, and sentenced to 25 years to life. After converting to Islam, he changed his name. Maintaining his innocence, he continued to allege that the police had framed him. A prevalent view attributes his infamous acquittal, rather, to racial bias by a proverbial "Bronx jury." But particularly with the Mollen Commission's 1990s exposure of widespread criminality, including drug dealing and violence, by New York City police officers, and then a 2003 independent documentary favoring Davis's explanation, his story continues to provoke divided reactions. (en)
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- Larry Davis (* 28. Mai 1966 in New York City; † 20. Februar 2008 in , Ulster County, New York; später Adam Abdul-Hakeem) war ein Krimineller in New York, der bekannt wurde, als er am 19. November 1986 sechs Polizisten des New York City Police Departments bei einer Razzia angeschossen hatte. Er wurde nach einem spektakulären Prozess vom Vorwurf des versuchten Mordes freigesprochen. Er wurde später wegen eines anderen Mordes festgenommen und in der Haft getötet. Seine Tat erregte das Interesse der Öffentlichkeit, insbesondere weil es in der Zeit vor den Schüssen vermehrt zu Polizeibrutalität gekommen war. Dementsprechend wurde er von manchen als Held gefeiert, während andere entsetzt waren, dass er damit durchgekommen war. (de)
- Larry Davis or, since 1989, Adam Abdul-Hakeem (May 28, 1966 – February 20, 2008) was an American man who was convicted in 1991 of a drug dealer's 1986 murder, known for his 1986 shootout in the Bronx with police, in which six officers were shot. Davis, asserting self-defense, was acquitted of all charges aside from illegal gun possession. In 2008, he died via stabbing by a fellow inmate. (en)
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