Police begin wearing cameras in US protest town


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 02 Sep 2014

YOU'RE ON CAMERA: A police officer wearing a body camera at a rally for Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson on Aug 9, in Ferguson, Missouri.

WASHINGTON: Police in the US town roiled by protests after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager are now wearing body cameras in a bid to calm local anger, a news report said. 

More than 1,000 protesters again marched Saturday in the town of Ferguson, Missouri, over the Aug 9 killing of Michael Brown, 18, at the hands of a white police officer. 

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