Giants Superbowl Parade( click title to watch video)

Although there is something quite graceful about his young man, the scene here was anything but. The parade was very frustrating, the streets to see the parade were blocked off and hundreds of people found themselves with no where to go. As a result, fans became angry and started attacking the vehicles left on the street. The crowds were not cheering for the Giants but rather chanting " F#*K the POLICE!"

Here the same group moved onto another car. The were trying to tip it, that is after they throughly vandalized it.
One might ask, where were the police? I photographed this scene for about 25 minutes. One cop showed up and had no control and left again. 10 minutes after that, cops showed up on horses, about 12 of them. They ran through the streets chasing the crowd away. The horses where so scared, but so were the punks.

It was such a sad scene to me. Here was a winning home town team, and here was a city willing to put on a parade for the people of the town to celebrate. Instead, cars were ruined, people were hurt and day of victory became a day of violence.


CLICK ON THE TITLE OF THIS POST TO WATCH VIDEO FROM NEWSDAY. You can see me taking pictures in the lower left hand corner in the blue jacket. As a photographer is was a wild experience, thrilling yet intimidating as well. One man kept yelling to the others that I was a cop. I told them I wasn't but he got a group to chant that I was a cop. Fearing for my camera and myself because there was no way out I started chanting "F#*K the COPS", luckily for me it worked.