MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) – Police in Ferguson, a US city where an African-American teenager had been killed by a law enforcer, have started wearing body cameras, Agence France-Presse reported.
The police officers have received some 50 cameras. "We are still playing with them. The quality [of the cameras] is good," Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson said. He added that each officer received one camera. It is assumed that this will help make the police more accountable, and the judges and juries will be able “to view for themselves police action in disputed incidents,” the agency said.
On Saturday, Ferguson was once again shaken by the demonstrations. Over a thousand people took part in the protest march. Locals accuse police of excessive use of force and violence.
Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis of some 21,000 residents, has been shaken by protests since Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot, killed and left uncovered, bleeding on the tarmac in view of increasingly-upset friends and relatives on August 9.
A grand jury of three African-American people and nine Caucasians is hearing evidence about Brown’s shooting and is expected to decide whether to charge lawman Darren Wilson, who shot the teenager, by mid-October. The inquiry hinges on whether Wilson, 28, fired in self-defense.
