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Traffic stop leads to immigrant's rights suit against trooper

By Jonathan Saltzman
Globe Staff / August 1, 2008

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Helder T. Assumpcao says he was driving his van with three friends on a summer afternoon in 2005 when a state trooper pulled over the Brazilian-born carpenter and unleashed a torrent of profanity-laced, anti-immigrant abuse. (Full article: 761 words)

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