After nine years, Jasmyne Robison says, she had reached her breaking point.

Her longtime partner, Hamza Smajlovic , had long been abusive. On Oct. 30, 2024, he strangled her "almost to death," she said. The next day, she told him she was going to get groceries with her grandmother, but instead, when Robison's grandmother picked her up, Robison told her, "Do not ever bring me back to this place again."

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