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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.

We're continuing with part two of our look at the remarkable story of a domestic violence survivor.

Her name is Tracy MacCarter. She's a nurse, a grandmother, who was jailed after her husband

died of a stab wound when she defended herself during an altercation. Her imprisonment sparked

outrage across the country. The story begins in March of 2020, when she was arrested after

calling 911 to help her a strange husband who was attacking her in her apartment.

It ended November of last year when the Manhattan District Attorney asked the judge in her case

to drop all charges against Tracy MacCarter after a grassroots campaign to ultimately free her.

We're joined now by Tracy MacCarter herself, a registered nurse who recently completed her

master's degree at Columbia University and also just received the Truth Out Center for

Grassroots Journalism's Keely Shenwar Memorial essay prize for her piece as a black woman accused

of killing a white man. I was never innocent until proven guilty. And we're joined by Jocelyn

Simonson, a law professor at Brooklyn Law School, part of the I Stand with Tracy Campaign.

And she features Tracy MacCarter in her new book Radical Acts of Justice, how ordinary people

are dismantling incarceration. Tracy MacCarter, I want to begin with you as we did in part one of

this discussion. In part one, you went through that horrific night of March of 2020,

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