Media commentators blamed the hoodie itself for Trayvon Martin’s death

Evidence

“Well, people are gonna perceive you as a menace”: “Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: ‘I Think the Hoodie Is as Much Responsible for Trayvon Martin’s Death as George Zimmerman,’ ” Media Matters, March 23, 2012. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 697

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hijab and hoodie became parallel markers of racialized suspicion — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 569
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Hijab and hoodie became parallel markers of racialized suspicion — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 569