Bluffton Today - Sen. Scott on Body Cameras

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As South Carolina lawmakers get closer to passing body-camera legislation for police officers, the issue has also come up in Congress.

South Carolina's junior U.S. senator, Sen. Tim Scott (R), recently addressed a panel on Capitol Hill to urge support for the devices.

Citing one study, Scott said: "Public complaints agianst officers wearing cameras falls by 90 percent and use of force drops by as much as 60 percent. That's moving in the right direction."

He said it's not the same as "federalizing" local policing.

He also quoted the mother of Walter Scott, the unarmed man in North Charleston who was killed after a police officer shot him in the back when the man was running away. A bystander's cellphone video captured the event, even as the officer himself told a differnt story of what had occurred.

"I really want to make sure that mothers do not have to bury their sons," the senator recalled Walter Scott's mother saying.

Do you think it's time for all police officers to wear body cameras? Will this solve the problems that we have seen lately?

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