Rep. Rush reprimanded for wearing hoodie

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor yesterday deploring the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, receiving a reprimand for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber.

The Illinois Democrat spoke out against racial profiling and, as he removed his suit coat and pulled up the hood on the sweatshirt he was wearing underneath, said "just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum."

Rush was interrupted by the presiding officer, Mississippi Republican Gregg Harper, who reminded him that the wearing of hats was not allowed and "members need to remove their hoods or leave the floor."

Martin, 17, was wearing a hooded sweatshirt on Feb. 26, the night he was killed. On Tuesday, his parents spoke on Capitol Hill at a Democratic-sponsored panel on racial profiling.

Rush founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers in 1968 and served 6 months in prison for illegal possession of weapons when he was in his 20s. He went on to get a political science degree from Chicago's Roosevelt University, won a seat on Chicago's City Council in 1983 and was elected to Congress from Chicago's South Side in 1992.

Rush lost a son to a shooting in 1999 and has been a strong advocate for victims of gun violence.

Meanwhile, a video shot by a security camera picked up no obvious sign of injury to George Zimmerman when Sanford police marched him into police headquarters the night he shot and killed Martin.

The video debuted last evening on ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer."

Police say Zimmerman told them he shot Martin in self-defense after the 6-foot high school junior punched him, got on top of him and began banging his head into a sidewalk.

Zimmerman was bleeding from his nose and back of his head, according to a police report, but the video, provided ABC News by the city of Sanford, shows no obvious sign of injury.