August Friedrich Brusius, a 33-year-old German-American male, was a Philadelphia police officer whose death came only months after he joined the department. Born on August 22, 1873, he was one of six children in a family of German immigrants, and his early life had already been touched by violence: when he was still a small child, his father reportedly died from injuries suffered in a barroom brawl. Brusius grew up in Philadelphia, worshiped in a German-speaking church community, later married M
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