Tracy McCarter filed a lawsuit against the NYPD last Thursday, Nov. 2 over how police investigated her estranged husband’s 2020 death.
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“I heard a police officer say that I said tried to take my purse so I stabbed him in the chest,” she said. “And I remember turning to someone and saying, ‘Why do you keep saying that? I never said that.’” After her arrest, McCarter could not return to her job as a nurse or her advanced clinical management and leadership curriculum studies at Columbia University. While both her employment and her enrollment remained on hold, she stayed in administrative limbo due to electronic monitoring and a student conduct suspension. McCarter missed the birth of her grandchildren and the funeral of an aunt and a grandparent.
“That meant she was remanded when she was cuffed. She was charged with murder. Those first decisions decide the whole of a case in a lot of situations.” While McCarter is far from the only criminalized domestic violence survivor, her case coincided with both the public support of pandemic-time medical workers and the racial reckoning of the George Floyd protests. Public support naturally followed for the Black nurse and four blue-chip private law firms soon signed on to help. Despite her ordeal, McCarter considers herself lucky in regards to navigating the legal criminal justice system.
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