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A Texas-based video equipment company has donated five body cameras to the Ferguson Police Department, the same Missouri police department that has come under fire after an unarmed teen was shot and killed by an officer.
Safety Vision, based in Houston, said they were donating the cameras “in an effort to protect both law enforcement and the public with the capture of indisputable evidence.”
Michael Brown was surrendering and putting his hands in the air when he was shot at least six times by Officer Darren Wilson, according to witnesses, ABC News reports.
Ferguson police claim Wilson sustained a serious facial injury during the confrontation with Brown.
Neither claim could be corroborated by video, however, because the department did not have body cameras at the time of the incident.
The new cameras, if they are put into use, can record up to eight hours of video footage and a police radio interface, according to Safety Vision’s website.
The Ferguson Police Department did not return ABC News’s calls for comment.
The Associated Press reports the use of body cameras has increased in the U.S., and approximately one in six U.S. police departments uses the cameras in some form, said Scott Greenwood, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union.
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