Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin BecameThe Target of a Hooded

Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin BecameThe Target of a Hooded: Geraldo Rivera struck the audience with comments on the case Trayvon Martin, saying that by wearing a hood, teens killed was the target.

Martin, a 14-year-old Candy transport, hoodie, wearing an African-American boy who was shot, George Zimmerman, Captain Sanford, Fla., neighborhood watch.

He walked home with a 7-Eleven, and was unarmed. Zimmerman, who claimed self-defense, is not charged, but a grand jury hear the case.

Martin supporters took part in the "Mars million Hoodie" in protest against the freedom of Zimmerman. But the hoodie has acquired a new meaning thanks to Geraldo.

"When you see a child walking down the street, especially dark-skinned baby, my son Cruz - I always cried when he was carrying on the hoodie, or those crazy pants around his ankles," Take that hood! "Rivera told Fox & Friends.

"People look at you, and that at the time of identification, association occurs instantaneously? These observations at the crime scene tape."

"When you see someone stickin 7-Eleven, a boy dressed in a hoodie," Rivera continued. "When you see an attack on a surveillance camera, or they get that old lady in a niche, he is a child wearing a hood."

"You have to admit that this set, styled as a" gangsta "... you'll be gangsta wannabe? Well, people will perceive you as a threat. This is exactly what happens. This reflexive instant action."

The negative reaction to it was fast and furious.

Many viewers claimed it was a call to the dress code for minorities, or equivalent to the women who wear revealing clothing are asked to be raped.

Questlove sent a long series of Tweets Rivera, including:

"@ GeraldoRivera Unfortunately, I have to go swaying tuxedo July 24 so I can put the others who do not know comfort? The topic the other side of the coin?"

With a short, but a lot of anger, amusement parks and the star Aziz Ansari said: "It really corresponds to tweet until now no, but seriously, F -. To you Geraldo"

Rivera followed Twitter, defending his position:

"My son has just written to say that he is ashamed of his position again sweatshirts - I still feel that parents should do everything possible to keep their children safe," he wrote.

"This is not to blame the victim His common sense, as a gangster and armed idiot to take your word ... I'm sorry I must be one of a minority of parents citing the risk that comes with being child of color in America."