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RALEIGH, N.C. (WRAL) — Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Raleigh and Durham on Sunday to show solidarity with an ongoing protest againstcorporate greed and social inequality on Wall Street.

Rep. Brad Miller, a Democrat who represents the state’s 13th District, which includes Raleigh, came to listen to protesters’ concerns. He said it’s a question of injustice.

“The people who caused the financial crisis (and) the painful recession that we’ve been through seem to have gotten off scot-free,” Miller said. “The people who did suffer were really without blame, and that offends people.”

Miller said he thinks people’s anger can be fueled to affect policy decisions.

“Maybe we need to start with the anger and then develop the proposals based on that,” he said. “I think if you ask people here, they would say, ‘Yeah, banks ought not be as big as they are.’ There are legislative proposals — I introduced one in the House that went nowhere – but if there was a movement behind it, pushing it, it would make a big difference.”