Geraldo Rivera: Hoodie To Blame For Trayvon Martin’s Death (VIDEO)

[RandySF]

Geraldo Rivera said Friday that Trayvon Martin might not have been shot dead by George Zimmerman if he hadn’t been wearing a hoodie.

Rivera told his colleagues at Fox and Friends that he thought Zimmerman “should be investigated to the fullest extent of the law and if he is criminally liable, he should be prosecuted.” But he also said there was another culprit in the 17-year-old’s death: his choice of clothing.

“I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was,” Rivera explained.

“What’s the instant association? It’s crime scene surveillance tapes. Every time you see someone stick up a 7-11, the kid is wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or get the old lady in the alcove, it’s kid with a hoodie,” Rivera continued.



http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/geraldo_rivera_blames_trayvon_martins_death_on_his.php?ref=fpb

[Liberal Veteran]

1. And women's provocative dressing habits are responsible for rape?

This case is definitely drawing the pigs out to make stupid comments blaming the victim.

Please excuse me while I empty the content of my stomach.

[KansDem]

2. "...his choice of clothing. "

Change "his" to "her" and you have the reason for many rapes...
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[WI_DEM]

3. Well, the old 'she asked for it because she was wearing a mini-skirt and low cut blouse'

when a woman is raped is now blamed for a young man being murdered?

[malaise]

4. So I can kill anyone in a raincoat then

or a winter coat with a hood
Stupid fuck

[Enrique]

5. here's what Trayvon looked like in his hoodie

omg look how gangsta he looks!



If Trayvon was wearing a suit and tie they would have said he looked like he was in the Nation of Islam. The range of clothes seems to be very narrow for black people not to freak white people out.

[thesquanderer]

6. Guns don't kill people, hoodies do. (n/t)

[marlakay]

7. This whole thing is getting crazier

I read something about rain that night. I wear a sweatshirt with hood when I go for walks in my neighborhood and put hood up if cold or rain starts. Does that make me a gangster?

Totally nuts!

[Madmiddle]

8. rivera

knows better than to say something this stupid, at least he did before he went to the darkside.
He knows the streets, but since going to the darkside and being breast fed his talking points from Ailes, this is what he has become, a moron.

[bpollen]

9. BS, Geraldope...

Whether he was wearing a hoodie or was running around starkers, his clothing is not in any way responsible for his death. He was chased down and shot (while screaming for help) because Zimmerman is compensating for his "masculine shortcomings." A wiry teenager armed with Skittles walking through the neighborhood is not a threat worthy of deadly force and his sartorial preferences don't raise that threat. Well, maybe if it was a sweater-vest, then Trayvon would have deserved it?

[Robb]

10. Traidor. (nt)

[Dawson Leery]

11. Geraldo is Rupert's whore.

What else can be expected.

[EFerrari]

12. Dear Geraldo

[KT2000]

13. Gerlado's mustache tells me

he is in porn films.
My white neighbors wear hoodies. He came back from Iraq and started a landscaping company. Depending upon the weather, sometimes the hood is up and sometimes down. His wife does the same.
This is the NW - off and on rain and shine.
Geraldo is an idiot.

[alp227]

14. this guy has a radio show now.

http://wabcradio.com/sectional.asp?id=41488

at least Geraldo isn't a complete wingnut like the rest of the talkers that WABC has blasted 'round the nation (seriously...my local "hot talk" station KSFO used to basically duplicate WABC lineup for the past few years...Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, and the first 2 hrs of Batchelor. Now Limbaugh moved to another station.) Still, this seems to be like Rivera's Limbaugh/Fluke moment.

Geraldo's show is also played tape delayed on KABC Los Angeles.