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September 12, 2002. Dorchester, MA. Hundreds of Dorchester residents participated in a peace march and vigil in the streets of the neighborhood where Eveline Barros-Cepeda was shot to death by a Boston Police Officer. She was riding in the back seat of a car that police tried to stop after it ran a stoplight. The car allegedly struck Boston Police Officer Michael Paillat prompting his partner Officer Thomas Taylor Jr. to fire five shots into the car as it sped away. Police Commissioner Paul Evans announced his planned restrictions on the use of deadly force after this fourth fatal police shooting in Boston. The Boston Police Patrolmen's Association responded by calling the plan "deadly and irresponsible" and could lead to "officers killed in the line of duty" and called for Commissioner Evans resignation.
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