Geraldo Rivera: Hoodie ‘allowed’ Zimmerman to kill Martin

[kpete]

Geraldo Rivera: Hoodie ‘allowed’ Zimmerman to kill Martin

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera thinks he knows who or what is to blame for the slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin: the hoodie did it.

Appearing on Fox News early Friday morning, Rivera conceded that George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot Martin, should be investigated, but he urged black and Latino parents to not allow their children to wear hooded sweatshirts.

“I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was,” the host ranted. “You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta — you’re going to be a gangsta wannabe, well people are going to perceive you as a menace. That’s what happens. It is an instant, reflexive action.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/23/geraldo-rivera-hoodie-allowed-zimmerman-to-kill-martin/

[Life Long Dem]

1. Too bad Zimmerman was watching Trayvon before he put his hoodie on.

The girlfriend was on the phone with Trayvon at the time and she said. "He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on.". http://tinyurl.com/6ltqw9f

[rocktivity]

2. Well, that explains Keith Olbermann's wardrobe malfunction last night.

He opened with a report on Martin wearing a zippered hooded sweatshirt. Due to the late-breaking nature of the Sanford police chief going on hiatus and a special prosecutor being named, he didn't have time to change before airtime.

By the way, Geraldo, unless Marting was wearing PULLOVER hooded sweatshirt, it wasn't a hoodie. And they're just as much school jock as gangsta.


rocktivity

[MoonRiver]

3. This is the same mentality that says women who wear short skirts are asking to be raped.

[MineralMan]

4. But it's OK for white kids to wear hoodies?

Very strange reasoning, really, Geraldo, you silly moron!

[edgineered]

5. yes, one must consider the source

rivera, a reliable source, comes to us from fox news, another reliable source.

now lets examine the modern symbol of anarchy, that filthy hoodie - worn by an inexperience criminal, a bad source. purchased most likely with dirty money, a bad source. manufactured by illigitimate children, a bad source, in a lawless third world country, bad source. probably imported on a chinese freighter, manned by foreigners, through a port on the left coast, unloaded by union workers, bad, bad, bad.

this is getting us nowhere - obviously, if the right laws were in place the liberals might think twice before opening their mouths. maybe now people will realize that the right to bear arms should include gernades, automatic weapons and other devices that enable control over entire groups - much time is lost reloading. a single gernade can take out the faster ones, because we all know that once they get to the fence it too late.

beyond that, if all the money being wasted on women and schools were available, airplanes pulling banners with live fox headlines could fly over remote places like gun ranges and hunting camps.



that's enough SARCASM (for now)

[frylock]

6. i wear a hoodie, do not consider myself a gangsta type..

and gerri rivers can kiss my white ass.

[Marrah_G]

7. Both my sons wear hoodie

They are white. Neither one would have been confronted by Ziimerman. He is a racist man, who shot a boy because of the color of his skin.

[stanchaz]

8. Blame the hoodie?

Blame the Hoodie? GIVE ME A BREAK. It was raining.... the kid was running.....and ....SORRY... but we don't ALL use Totes umbrellas when going to the corner grocery store for a snack. Nor should we risk losing our lives while doing so!  And by his own admission, Mr. Zimmerman, the gunman, was stalking unarmed Trayvon - against the advice of the police (via cellphone contact). Mr. Rivera: you should be ashamed of your inane, insensitive comments, and your attempts to create "excuses" for the inexcusable actions of judge-jury-executioner Zimmerman. We are becoming a society that sees threats under every rock; a society that sees danger  with every “other” that is not like us;  a society with power hungry control-freaks (whether politicians or mayors or police chiefs or individuals) that are only too eager to take advantage of our fears; that are only too eager to get away with anything that they can, as they deprive us of our our liberty (and sometimes our lives), in the name of defending it. This is part of a slippery slope that includes the worst provisions of the Patriot Act, police spying on innocent people, papers-please and stop&frisk gone wild, the “right” to indefinitely detain Americans without trial, and homicidal “vigilantes” such as we have tragically seen here. It’s a slippery slope that leads to a police state/Orwellian mentality that is typical of places such as China, Cuba, or 1960's Communist Eastern Europe. We used to stand proud and free, and contrasted our open society to such places. Now we imitate them. Our country is better than this. WE are better than this.