Rivera, wearing a hoodie may have been a factor in teens death.

[powderman]

 Fox's Rivera: Fla. teen's hoodie had role in deathBy DAVID BAUDER | Associated Press – 19 hrs ago        Related Content 

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     NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel commentator Geraldo Rivera said Friday that the hoodie an unarmed black teenager wore when he was killed in Florida is as much responsible for his death as the man who shot him.
The veteran TV personality, speaking on "Fox & Friends," waded in with an opinion on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a story that has attracted national attention over the past month. He later acknowledged that his comments were "politically incorrect."
People wearing hooded sweatshirts are often going to be perceived as a menace, Rivera said.
"I'll bet you money that if he didn't have that hoodie on, that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn't have responded in that violent and aggressive way," Rivera said.
The unarmed 17-year-old Martin was killed Feb. 26 in Sanford. He was wearing a hoodie and returning from a trip to a convenience store when neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman started following him, telling police dispatchers he looked suspicious. Zimmerman hasn't been charged and says he shot Martin in self-defense.
The case brought hundreds of people together in New York with Martin's parents for a protest march this week. The BET television network said it would air a special, "Shoot First: The Tragedy of Trayvon Martin," on Monday.
Of Martin, Rivera said, "God bless him, he was an innocent kid, a wonderful kid." But he said the case should be a warning to parents to watch what their children should wear.
"If you dress like a hoodlum eventually some schmuck is going to take you at your word," he wrote in a commentary posted Friday on the website Fox News Latino.
Hundreds of people had posted messages on Rivera's Facebook page by Friday afternoon, the overwhelming majority of them negative about Rivera's comments.
Rivera compared his own comments to those of fellow Fox analyst Juan Williams, who was fired by National Public Radio in 2010 for saying on Fox that he gets nervous when he sees people on a plane with clothing that identifies them as Muslim.
"No one black, brown or white can honestly tell me that seeing a kid of color with a hood pulled over his head doesn't generate a certain reaction — sometimes scorn, often menace," Rivera wrote in his commentary

[lakota]

I am really getting sick of the way this story is being handled.
 
The media just like the true vultures they are are going to pick this carcass clean...or at least pick at it until a bigger carcass comes along.

[yellowtail3]

What really sucks is that this jerk-off Zimmerman is going to endanger CCW/self-defense laws by his stoopid behavior.
I've a clue as to what happened there, based ON WHAT I'VE READ/inferred thus far:

The guy was armed. He's got a bit of wanna-bee cop in him. He forced a confrontation because he was armed, feeling secure that he'd prevail. And a kid is dead because of it. We all know this is against the rules, right?

All I know is what I read in the papers... but so far, I think Zimmerman is young, lacked maturity, and had very poor judgement. How many here carry, and aren't cops? See if this sounds/feels familiar: when I'm carrying, I'm a lot less likely to force confrontations or get into pissin' contests... the stakes are just too high. I've been in exactly one armed confrontation. I a couple seconds from shooting, had things gone just a little further. I would definitely have prevailed, the other guy would be dead, and I wouldn't have been convicted of any crime (though DA would probably have ruined me financially and screwed life up for a few months). But...  I never want one of those again.

I don't think Zimmerman had that perspective.

[magooch]

Obama himself mentioned that the teen looked like his son if he had one.  I thought so too when I first saw the kid's picture.  My second thought was that that alone would be enough to get him shot in some neighborhoods.

[SwampThing762]

Well, there's a new sheriff in town for this case.  Her name is Angela Corey, and she is the State Attorney from Jacksonville.    She is a tough as nails prosecuter with an excellent conviction rate in gun violence cases.  The fact that she is hated by the NAACP is a testimonial to her record.  She will get justice for Trayvon Martin, and she will have no qualms of telling Holder's lackeys to stay out of her investigation.  Even more so if AG Bondi and Gov Scott back her up.

I am no attorney, but, from the 911 tapes and the reports I have heard, Zimmerman could face a possible manslaughter charge.

ST762