Twenty years after he was gunned down inside City Hall, the Brooklyn city councilman’s legacy lives on.
Demonstrators hold posters of slain New York City Councilman James Davis during a Stop the Violence rally held in Davis’s honor near his home in Crown Heights days after his murder.Demonstrators hold posters of slain New York City Councilman James Davis during a Stop the Violence rally held in Davis’s honor near his home in Crown Heights days after his murder.
“We discussed this with other great leaders of the past, that this could be a possibility. And then we’d crack jokes,” Davis told me. “He said, ‘If something should happen to me, you know what? Your name is going to be James Davis’s little brother.’”
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