Ferguson (United States) (AFP) -
Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis cut an arresting figure
in his crisp uniform, dark blue cap -- and a sign demanding "the truth"
about the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black youth.
Lewis turned
heads and got people talking Thursday in his first appearance at the
nightly protests in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson that followed the
August 9 death there at the hands of a white policeman of 18-year-old
Michael Brown.
"These people
have been exploited and oppressed their entire lives, and now they have
their own police department perhaps murdering one of their own," he told
AFP around the corner from where Brown was fatally shot.
And I came out to show solidarity with them," he said.
Lewis,
who is white, served 24 years in the Philadelphia police force, most of
them in the city's edgy north side, before retiring eight years ago and
embracing political activism.
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