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Geraldo Rivera: Hoodie To Blame For Trayvon’s Death [Video]

Posted: March 23, 2012

Geraldo Rivera, host of Fox News’s show Fox & Friends, believes that, “the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.” He went on to say, “I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.”

His comments on the show this morning drew a fierce response from critics, with one person calling him a “moron” on twitter. Geraldo backed up his claim by saying:

“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.”

Geraldo does believe that Trayvon was innocent. He took a moment to comment that, “Trayvon Martin, God bless him, an innocent kid, a wonderful kid, a box of Skittles in his hands. He didn’t deserve to die.” Afterwards though, he claimed that he would “bet money” that if Travyon Martin had not been wearing a hoodie, he would not have been killed.

He also responded to Al Sharpton’s Million Hoodie March that “you cannot rehabilitate the hoodie.” Apparently Martin believes that parents need to stop letting their kids wear hoodies, because they are the real reason innocent children are killed.

Do you believe that Trayvon Martin’s death is the result of him wearing a hoodie, more so that the fault of the man who killed him?

Check out the video from Fox New’s Fox & Friends here:



Comments


30 Archived Responses to “ Geraldo Rivera: Hoodie To Blame For Trayvon’s Death [Video] ”

  1. Heather Dawes
    Mar 23, 2012

    What! It was raining, he put his hood up. When people visit the northwest, they must be constantly scared of all the people wearing hoods. (- Seattle)

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  3. police uniforms scare me, on account of so many young people being killed by those wearing them. If I kill a cop while hes picking up some doughnuts, is it self-defense?

  4. So what do we do about our Black skin. It was stupid for you to say this Geraldo. Where is the old hard-itting journalist?

  5. Whenever you think your job sucks, remember that Geraldo's mouth actually has to say what Geraldo's brain thinks.

  6. Liz Landry
    Mar 23, 2012

    I should cease being surprised at what comes out of anyone on Fox News' mouth. But, seriously? Although, this is the same thought process that says short skirts cause rape, so I guess I really shouldn't be that surprised. At least these idiots are consistent in their stupidity.

  7. Jared Wilson
    Mar 23, 2012

    Ban the hoodie. Problem solved.

  8. Geraldo you are an idiot!!! That has got to be by far the most ignorant thing anyone has said!

  9. Jared Wilson
    Mar 23, 2012

    Geraldo's response is the typical liberal response. Blame an inanimate object for the murder. The hoodie killed the kid. Or the "gun" killed the kid.

    I'm surprised he didn't ask for a ban on Skittles and tea, since those products, made by "evil corporations," lured the young lad to his death.

  10. Liz Landry
    Mar 23, 2012

    Jared Wilson Geraldo isn't a liberal (you do realize he's a host on Fox News?) He's an idiot and that unfortunately, is not something that is owned by any party.

  11. Eddie Camblor
    Mar 23, 2012

    Jared Wilson ~~ liberal response??? you idiot, this was on Faux news !

  12. In my opinion hoodies are way less menacing than Geraldo Rivera's silent-film villain mustache. He looks like he's going to tie a lady to train tracks.

  13. I have always thought that Geraldo was an idiot , but now I am totally convinced!

  14. He never fails to remind me what an idiot he is.. .every time he speaks.

  15. Stan Chaz
    Mar 24, 2012

    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.

  16. Jared Wilson
    Mar 24, 2012

    You say Geraldo Rivera is not a liberal because he's on Fox News? You do NOT know Geraldo Rivera. And save your insults, idiot.

  17. Jared Wilson
    Mar 24, 2012

    Enjoy your Skittles and hoodie parade.

  18. Jared Wilson
    Mar 24, 2012

    By the way, Eddie Camblor, who are you exactly? I am Kendra's brother. Did your mother raise you to be a rude jackass, or did you come by it on your own?

    Do you always go shooting your mouth off at friends of friends?

    Sorry to say this on your thread, sis, but obviously anything goes, so why not?

  19. Jared Wilson
    Mar 24, 2012
  20. Peg Lyons
    Mar 24, 2012

    Hoodies don't kill people; gun-carrying power-hungry wannabe-Barney racists kill people.

  21. Peg Lyons
    Mar 24, 2012

    Zimmerman, as block watch captain, should never have been given a bullet.

  22. Geraldo's point is that if you immitate a hoodlum in dress and demeanor you leave yourself open for an asshole paranoid racist to think you are a hoodlum and act stupidly. He does not blame the hoodie, he suggests young people who think oit is cool to look like a hoodlum are inviting trouble. He does not condone the murderer.

  23. Lynnmarie Doherty
    Mar 27, 2012

    Jared Wilson geraldo is registered as a Republican-so that makes him a conservative

  24. Rosslyn Dame
    Mar 28, 2012

    Peg, Zimmerman was a self appointed block watch captain. I think that is a very important point to be made.

  25. I'm a retired school teacher and sub a lot. Students are not allowed to wear hoodies, hat or heavy jackets in the school rooms, because some students took advantage of that and hit weapons in order to harm others. It happened so often, states all over put an end to wearing garments that could conceal items that would be used to harm. Therefore, the wearing of such clothing has been tied with "being up to something no good", especially dressed as such, in warm/hot weather. It's a shame that a few has caused this to happen and some have been shot. But, everyone knows this causes a problem, so to avoid harm to yourself, be aware of when and where you wear this clothing. Not much is fair anymore, but that is life and we have to adjust.

  26. ok first of all this didn't happen inside a school..IT WAS RAINING..OUTSIDE!!!..