Police in Illinois weigh wearing body cameras

Published September 3, 2014 11:07pm ET



SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies and correctional officers in central Illinois’ tiny DeWitt County have been wearing body cameras since December, but it wasn’t until a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August that other departments around the state took notice.

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