Family Gets Escorted Out Of A Pennsylvania Mall Because Their Children Had Hoodies On!
Ross Park Mall Pittsburgh, PA: Shopping mall bans upturned hoodies for ‘safety and well-being of everyone’ but “Who gets to decide what kind of clothing is suspicious and why is it the hoodie, not hats or sunglasses that cover the eyes,â€
Why do some people not like people who wear hoodies? Hooded sweatshirt is a utilitarian garment that originated in the 1930s for workers in cold New York warehouses.[8] Hoodies were later adopted by hip hop culture as a symbol of what one reporter termed “cool anonymity and vague menace.â€[8] When the garment was depicted in FBI composite drawings of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the hoodie became linked to “seedy threatening criminality,†thereby further asserting its non-mainstream symbolism.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often wears a plain grey hoodie rather than a business suit, drawing comment during his company’s 2012 initial public offering.[29]
In 2015, Oklahoma state representative Don Barrington proposed a bill to criminalize wearing a “robe, mask or other disguise†in public that would “intentionally conceal the wearer’s identityâ€, which was criticized as an attempt to criminalize the wearing of the hoodie. Posted By Ghost