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Right, it's 2012 and headware like hoodies are part of criminal tool to avoid detection. I doubt there's a store owner anywhere, except for c-d storeowners, who doesn't pay special attention to hooded customers.
Well, that's your opinion, and you're welcome to it. Are there by any chance any statistics out there about hoodies and criminal behavior? Seriously.
Seems to me the hoodies are more about style than criminal behavior. I mean the guy who owns facebook wearing of a hoodie is his signature style. However, I'd certainly be open to changing my mind if there are any studies or criminal statistics that show that wearing a hoodie is a good basis for profiling.
I have never seen such a sign in a convenience store.
I hear you. I just disagree with you specifically in this case. Yes, if it were 85 degrees outside, clear weather, and someone wore a hoodie up in a store, that would certainly seem unusual and suspicious.
However, those were not the circumstances when Martin wore his hoodie up in the convenience store, as well as wearing it up on his way home. The fact that he did wear a hoodie and wore it up should not be held against him as many in this thread are doing. They are using the simple fact that he wore a hoodie as "evidence" in their minds he was up to no good. That's ridiculous now and it was ridiculous when Geraldo said it. The weather conditions in Florida that night warranted the wearing of some type of clothing to protect yourself from rain and cold.
You must have grown up on the right side of the tracks then. We were not all that fortunate.
No reason the hoodie couldn't be dropped upoon going inside. It used to be customary for men to remove head gear when entering a building. Still is in the military, where custom and common courtesy last much longer.
Operative words, as someone previously said "used to be". I work in a pediatrician's office; the young dads come in with all kinds of head gear on, and they are mostly white and/or hispanic. I recall our former hero quarterback, Tim Tebow, giving a press conference with some sort of a stocking cap on during the playoffs. Was he on his way out to rob a convenience store?
Regardless of how CD members think Trayvon "looked" in the 7-11, he did not attempt to rob the store, of this much we can be sure b/c of the video.
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I have never seen such a sign in a convenience store.
I hear you. I just disagree with you specifically in this case. Yes, if it were 85 degrees outside, clear weather, and someone wore a hoodie up in a store, that would certainly seem unusual and suspicious.
However, those were not the circumstances when Martin wore his hoodie up in the convenience store, as well as wearing it up on his way home. The fact that he did wear a hoodie and wore it up should not be held against him as many in this thread are doing. They are using the simple fact that he wore a hoodie as "evidence" in their minds he was up to no good. That's ridiculous now and it was ridiculous when Geraldo said it. The weather conditions in Florida that night warranted the wearing of some type of clothing to protect yourself from rain and cold.
Right, it's 2012 and headware like hoodies are part of criminal tool to avoid detection. I doubt there's a store owner anywhere, except for c-d storeowners, who doesn't pay special attention to hooded customers.
btw, he wasn't wearing his hoodie up for all his trip home.
I don't know whether it was raining when he entered the 7-11 or was walking there.
I don't think it would be too difficult to determine whether or not it was raining that night. It was FEb. 26, 2012. If you live in Florida, you know how wet it can get here if the rain extends for any length of time, and surely you know how a drizzling rain can last for an hour or two. I've read that the temps were in the 60s, so if it's wet outside in Florida that makes the 60 degree temps feel even colder.
I don't think it would be too difficult to determine whether or not it was raining that night. It was FEb. 26, 2012. If you live in Florida, you know how wet it can get here if the rain extends for any length of time, and surely you know how a drizzling rain can last for an hour or two. I've read that the temps were in the 60s, so if it's wet outside in Florida that makes the 60 degree temps feel even colder.
Off topic, but a rainy 60 degree night in Feb. would feel warm here in CO, even in metro Denver.
Who said I live in Mayberry? I live in suburban Denver. I do get out, too. And who said there is no crime in Mayberry? Andy Griffith certainly found a lot of it to fight there.
Even though this song intended to use the word hood solely as "neighborhood", it sparked a huge culture of people wearing their hoody with the hood up.
Off topic, but a rainy 60 degree night in Feb. would feel warm here in CO, even in metro Denver.
lol. I know. I remember being in Colorado once in November, it had been snowing, and I saw students still wearing shorts!! We were in Boulder before heading up to the mountains to ski. Here in Florida, 60 degrees is the time to break out the heavy coats.
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Even though this song intended to use the word hood solely as "neighborhood", it sparked a huge culture of people wearing their hoody with the hood up.
Seems to me your post is just more evidence of it being "style" rather than a criminal tool.
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