Eveline Barros-Cepeda

On a late summer evening in Boston, on September 8, 2002, the life of a young woman named Eveline Barros-Cepeda was cut short. There is some discrepancy in her age, with various sources reporting her as either 20 or 25 years old. A woman of Cape Verdean heritage, she was a passenger in a car that would become the center of a fatal encounter with law enforcement.

The incident began when Boston Police officers attempted to pull over the vehicle for running a stoplight. What should have been ...

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