On December 17, 1905, Bryon Merritt, a 29-year-old police officer with the Beaumont Police Department in Texas, was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man. Officer Merritt, who was also a motorman, had brought his streetcar to a stop just in front of the suspect, who was walking along streetcar tracks carrying two pistols. When Officer Merritt ordered the man to consider himself under arrest, the suspect asked if Merritt had a gun. Upon learning that Merritt did not, the suspect immedi
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