The Voice Reports from the Silent March Against Stop-and-Frisk

The Voice Reports from the Silent March Against Stop-and-Frisk

By John Surico Sun., Jun. 17 2012 at 2:58 PM

As we mentioned before in the post about Mr. Martin and Mr. Graham speaking on behalf of their deceased sons, the stop-and-frisk silent march will start promptly at 3 this afternoon.

Our fellow Voice scribe Steven Thrasher (follow him on Twitter for live updates) will be on the ground reporting alongside photojournalist C.S. Muncy (@CSMuncyPhoto).

4:50pm: Thrasher tweets that a "cacophony of sound" ended the march.

4:41pm: The protest edges closer to Bloomberg territory:

Coming up to Bloomberg's house where NYPD helicopter circles menacingly over totally SILENT peaceful protest. Intimidating
-- Steven W. Thrasher (@steven_thrasher) June 17, 2012

4:31pm: Muncy gets physical to grab a good shot:

I've climbed on top of a parked crane to get my overhead shot. Think I'm going to break my neck. #silentmarchnyc #StopandFrisk
-- C.S. Muncy (@CSMuncyPhoto) June 17, 2012

4:05pm: Thrasher spots City Comptroller John Liu way in the back of the march.

3:36pm: Tweeter @thehandofmartin sends us a picture of the scene from above; hundreds of protestors in sight:

The Silent March 110th Street and 5th Avenue @villagevoice twitter.com/thehandofmarti...
-- Martin(@thehandofmartin) June 17, 2012

3:30pm: Muncy on the difference between #OWS and this march:

"Odd feeling. I've gotten so used to chasing the crowd, not used to silent, slow matches. #StopandFrisk"

3:21pm: Thrasher tweets on the united forces: "Just saw my first rainbow flag."

2:53pm: C.S. Muncy takes a beautiful shot of the march's onset:

The scene at 110 and 5th Ave. #StopandFrisk twitter.com/CSMuncyPhoto/s...
-- C.S. Muncy (@CSMuncyPhoto) June 17, 2012

Check back for updates throughout the afternoon.

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Black Man

Where da white girls at. Yo, bitch, get me an ice tea!

mulligas

Palstinians are hardly a flavor of the month and I only saw one sign mentioning the Palestinians and I don't think it "messed" with the demonstration or detracted from the demonstration in anyway. What do you mean perrennial protestors and why would they be different from the protestors you think should be at the march?

bub

It sucks that the sectarian left always has to mess with the branding. This was an important march at a time when real change seems possible. It has nothing to do with Palestinians or fracking or other radical flavors of the month. If your world view is that all of the issues are inter-connected and symptomatic of global capitalism yadda yadda, that's fine. But the effect of everything-and-the-kitchen-sink signage is to give the impression that it's another affair dominated by perennial protesters, not the people actually being oppressed.