State Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston, says he will pre-file a bill in the Legislature requiring every police department in the state - at their local expense - to have body-mounted cameras for their officers.
Gilliard had no estimate of what the requirement would cost but said "cameras don't lie." He pointed to statistics indicating that body cameras reduce use of force instances by police and also lead to a drop in the number of citizen complaints.
"Look at what it's going to prevent," he said. Gilliard is among those interested in running for mayor of Charleston next year.