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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 McCarter.

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 McCarter after a grassroots campaign to ultimately free her. We're joined now by Tracy

McCarter herself, a registered nurse who recently completed her master's degree at Columbia University

and also just received the Truth Out Center for Grassroots Journalisms,

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 McCarter

in her new book, Radical Acts of Justice, how ordinary people are dismantling incarceration.

Tracy McCarter, 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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