Harry Hinkson Boon, a 33-year-old man, was working as a detective with the Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department when a routine enforcement moment in Perryville, Maryland turned suddenly violent on June 30, 1909. On railroad property that day, Boon confronted a group of four men he believed were trespassing, moving in to place them under arrest the way he’d been trained to do—quickly, decisively, and close enough to control the situation before it could scatter.
Instead of backing
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