Imagine watching a murder unfold through a phone screen—and doing nothing. In this episode of No Tears For Black Girls, host Samantha Paul unpacks the connected stories of three women whose lives were stolen by men who believed their rage mattered more than women’s right to live: dancer and actress Stephanie Moseley, shot in her Los Angeles apartment while her husband FaceTimed Floyd Mayweather; Wendy Black, a Maryland nurse anesthetist who begged the courts for protection and was told her fear wasn’t enough; and Tara Labang, a healer whose killing became a footnote to a Facebook Live confession. Three women. Two killers. One broken system that turned every warning sign into paperwork and excuses.
This isn’t a whodunit—it’s an examination of how. How protective orders get denied even when women say “he threatened to kill me with a gun.” How red flag laws are supposed to remove weapons from dangerous people, and why they so often aren’t used in time. How media headlines humanize some victims while reducing others to “domestic incidents.” Through survivor-centered storytelling, data on intimate partner violence, and a hard look at police, courts, and tech platforms, Samantha argues these deaths were not inevitable tragedies—they were preventable failures.
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