Ferguson, Missouri, will have strict new requirements for use of police body cameras following voter approval of a ballot initiative. On Tuesday, voters in the town that became a flashpoint of racial unrest following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown overwhelmingly approved the body camera measure. Ferguson officers have used body cameras since a few weeks after Brown, who was 18, black and unarmed, was killed by a white police officer in 2014. The person who's been the public face of Ferguson, Missouri, since the St.