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Surveillance Footage Of 18-Year-Old Tony Farmer Attacking Ex-Girlfriend
by Maria Lloyd
The black community is up in arms following a judge’s decision to sentence 18-year-old Tony Farmer, a high school basketball star in Ohio, to prison for three years for physically abusing his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend, Andrea Lane, in her apartment complex. Judge Pamela Barker attributes Farmer’s violent rage caught on camera and his threats to Lane following the court’s ‘no contact’ order to her reason for sending him to prison for three years.
While some people in the black community are praising the judge’s decision and saying she “left him off easy” with the three-year-sentence, other people in the black community are wishing the young man would’ve received some form of punishment that will better him (e.g. counseling, community service, strict probation, and a shorter prison sentence).
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Brenda
September 1, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Excuse me, but did you see him kick the h**l out of this young woman with all the force his 6’7″ frame could muster. Not including when he knocked her across the floor.Then the mental and emotional abuse from the threats towards her for getting a no-contact order. You think the sentence was too harsh! Wow. If a guy kicked the h**l out of daughter and terrorized her would you feel the same way?
nativesooner
August 29, 2012 at 3:33 pm
he got the sentence he deserved. He also violated a “no contact” order from the judge. That tells us that he does not respect authority. That alone should give him 24 months of the 36 month sentence. Enough said about him. He can rehabilitate himself.
Miriam
August 26, 2012 at 9:54 am
Ms. Lloyd,
I respectfully disagree with your position and I give this article 100 milllion thumbs down. I feel ***honor bound*** to do so.
1. Black women and girls are entitled to the same human rights, and protections from our legal system as other races of women. We are not obligated to forefit our rights in order to support racial unity. We have the right to choose our gender over our race. This choice is an individual choice not a “group” choice.
2. We are NOT a monolothic group. All black people (evidenced in this commentary) do not share the same values, standards, culture, or belief systems. Being the victim of racism, sexisim, classism, Islamphobia, Anti-Semitism, xenophobia, or any other illegal/immoral form of abuse is not a justification to violate the law. Our ancestor Dr. King demonstrated the proper methods of addressing legitmate grievances, and pursuing justice.
3. Black women and girls like all other races of women have the right to confront, and challenge the culture of hate/violence/disrespect rampant in black male culture. Black women and girls like all other races of women have the right to ask for legal, financial, and even political accountability.
4. Any woman/girl of any races who supports systems of domination, violence, entrapment, and abuse are male identified women who can not be trusted or respected.
Black women and girls do not owe black men/boys anything beyond common courtsey/respect.