Neighborhood Watch guy chases down a kid, shoots him, charged with 2nd-degree murder

[FastFreddie]

Geraldo is blaming this on the fact that the young man was wearing a hoodie.

That is as moronic as saying a women deserved to be raped, because she dressed provocatively. No, check that. It's worse.

[sseelhoff]

That is as moronic as saying a women deserved to be raped, because she dressed provocatively. No, check that. It's worse.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74392.html

Geraldo Rivera said Friday he would “bet money” that Trayvon Martin wouldn’t have been fatally shot if the teenager hadn’t been wearing a hoodie, and the Fox News host’s comments immediately drew a fierce response, with one critic branding him a “moron” on Twitter.

“I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies,” Rivera said on “Fox & Friends.” “I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.”

Martin, an African-American teenager from Florida, was shot and killed last month by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who was armed with a handgun. The Justice Department announced earlier this week that it would launch an independent investigation into the shooting, as mobs of furious protesters are demanding that Zimmerman — who claimed he shot Martin in self-defense — be arrested.

Rivera on Friday launched into a long-winded monologue about how wearing a hoodie can draw “dark-skinned” kids unwanted attention because of the negative associations attached to people that dress to look like “a gangsta.”

“When you see a kid walking down the street, particularly a dark-skinned kid like my son Cruz, who I constantly yelled at when he was going out wearing a damn hoodie or those pants around his ankles,” Rivera said, as he continued on to argue that there is an “instant association” with someone that is wearing a hoodie.

“It’s those crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid’s wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it’s a kid wearing a hoodie. 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,” he said.

The Fox News host also cited Juan Williams — who was fired from NPR after saying he felt “nervous” when he sees people wearing “Muslim garb” at airports, and now works for Fox News — as an example of someone having had an “automatic reflex” to how an individual is dressed.

“When you see a black or Latino youngster, particularly on the street, you walk to the other side of the street. You try to avoid that confrontation,” Rivera continued. “Trayvon Martin, God bless him, an innocent kid, a wonderful kid, a box of Skittles in his hands. He didn’t deserve to die. But I bet you money, if he didn’t have that hoodie on, that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn’t have responded in that violent and aggressive way.”

[motorcityjoe611]

I don't mean to make light of a serious situation, but I thought this picture was funny (mostly because of the look on her face)....

I admit I found it funny too, and that is in now way making light of this awful situation. Almost like I was waiting for her to throw out a sign and put on an Eminem bandana. Only thing funnier would be Snyder wearing it. But her heart was in the right place

[det2orl]

I admit I found it funny too, and that is in now way making light of this awful situation. Almost like I was waiting for her to throw out a sign and put on an Eminem bandana. Only thing funnier would be Snyder wearing it. But her heart was in the right place

Wait, is that Stabenow?

[mtdman]

Holy Moley!

[sseelhoff]

Wait, is that Stabenow?

I thought it was Granholm.

[FastFreddie]

I thought it was Granholm.

Yes, it was done with her TV show, that she now apparently has.

[det2orl]

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miam...trayvon-martin

[ACfromtheD]

Juwan Howard is too old for a hoodie.

[GF-22a]

People are jumping all over the hoodie remark but it's kinda like if you see extra pale white kids wearing eye makeup and a trench coat..... It draws extra attention to hem and not in a welcoming way

[The_Real_Right_Way]

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miam...trayvon-martin

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