The Huffington Post | By Sam Levine
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NOTE: WE INCLUDE VIDEO CLIP OF CAPT. LEWIS EXPLAINING HIS ACTIONS.
Retired Captain Ray Lewis of the Philadelphia Police department holds a sign outside the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson, Missouri, on November 24, 2014 during a rally protesting the death of 18-year-old unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. (Credit: Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images)
[dropcap]A [/dropcap]former Philadelphia police officer says that he’s standing with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri to send a message that police are oppressing the majority of Americans.
“Number one, I want to give the residents of Ferguson the knowledge that there are some police that do support them,” Ray Lewis, a former Philadelphia Police captain told Al Jazeera. “I want to try and get a message to mainstream America that that this system is corrupt, that police really are oppressing not only the black community, but also the whites,” he said.
“It’s an oppressive organization now controlled by the one percent of corporate America. Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries.”
Lewis, who retired from the Philadelphia police force in 2004, was arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests in November 2011.
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