Authorities in Missouri decided to have law enforcers wear body cameras after chronic unrest broke in Ferguson over a cop's shooting of an unarmed teen in August.

After Michael Brown's shooting, protests-both peaceful and violent-have plagued Ferguson leading to several arrests and injuries in both the predominantly black community and the largely white police force.

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Also known as 'Big Mike,' the 18-year-old teen was shot by a police officer during an encounter on August 9 where different accounts of the incident surfaced.

Law enforcement officers, including shooter officer Darren Wilson, and other witnesses supporting him claimed that the teen attacked and struggled with Wilson while some of Big Mike's friends said that he raised his hands to show that he is unarmed and meant no harm.

This inconsistency reignited previous calls for law enforcement officers to start wearing body cameras to aid in acquiring accurate footages of each incident.

Just last week, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill proposed that police officers should be required to wear body cameras, stressing that it can help prevent other people taping an encounter from squarely putting the blame on the police force.

"And police officers are now at a disadvantage, because someone can tape the last part of an encounter and not tape the first part of the encounter. And it gives the impression that the police officer has overreacted when they haven't," she stated.

To help bring transparency to future cases, two video surveillance firms, Safety Visions and Digital Ally have donated around 50 body cameras.

"The city of Ferguson has gone through an unfortunate series of events and Safety Vision body cameras and flashlight DVR will assist in capturing prima facie evidence for investigations involving vandalism, looting, and shots fired," a statement from Safety Visions declared.

During protests in the St. Louis town on Saturday, police officers were seen putting the cameras to use as they manage the demonstrators.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson stated that his police officers are getting used to wearing them as part of their uniforms and even enjoy having them.

TagsFerguson, body cameras, police, shooting, michael brown, Darren Wilson, Sen. Claire McCaskill