captain lewis

in the youtube below, occupytv speaks with retired philadelphia police captain ray lewis who was arrested at the stock exchange during occupy protests.  the video also includes footage of his arrest in uniform by his fellow officers.

in speaking on camera about why he was arrested he states:  

"There are people in this society who use gold-handled water faucets, and sit on gold-plated toilet seats.  While other people in this same country are scavenging in dumpsters behind restaurants to eat, and they're sleeping in subways.  Now what kind of system would allow that disparity?  In lifestyle?  It's totally unacceptable.  It blows my mind.  Common sense tells you that there's something wrong with the system that allows that." 

 He also speaks about the wall street bailouts and says, 

"What I'm looking for with this movement is getting mainstream America [involved] - because they're suffering the same things.  They're losing their homes, they're losing their pensions, they're losing their jobs - they're all feeling the same way we're feeling here.  But they can't quite relate because the media is displaying them [the protesters] as not quite one of them.  So I'm hoping to get more and more people to realize, 'Hey, I'm like that person.  I'm like that person.'  Because they share the same hardships.  And once we get those people involved, that is when the movement is going to really take off."