How to Use body camera in a Sentence

body camera

noun
Definition of body cameranext
  • The whole incident was filmed on the officers’ body cameras.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2024
  • The department did not start wearing body cameras until a few months after Kizzee’s death.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Rogers yells through much of the three-minute and 34-second body camera footage documenting her arrest.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 29 May 2024
  • The officer whose body camera is recording mentions that a sniper had seen a person coming from a bike and setting a backpack down, but lost sight of him.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 24 July 2024
  • Officers wore body cameras, and the Police Department will make video available to the public after it is reviewed, the department said.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
  • Police body camera footage shows the retired school bus overturned in a field outside Dunnellon, Florida, on Tuesday.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 May 2024
  • The body camera footage showed that the child’s head was barely above the water when she was found.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The charges were dropped after body camera footage was leaked.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The comment, recorded on his body camera, made the news.
    — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Footage from a body camera worn by one of the Sheriff’s deputies shows what happened next.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Whether the body cameras will reduce theft at T.J. Maxx remains to be seen.
    — Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 5 June 2024
  • What appears to be a bullet casing can be seen flying out of the frame of the body camera footage.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • In that officer's body camera footage, Emmett walked up to the back door, and George opened the door from inside the house.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2023
  • The body camera footage begins with the deputy approaching the front door of the family’s home.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The body camera footage then shows Gilliam being led to a patrol car, hands cuffed behind her back.
    — Colleen Slevin The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Part of the bust was captured on an officer’s body camera video.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The deputy responded by hitting the person twice with their fist, body camera footage showed.
    — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The interaction was caught on camera by both a bystander and the cop’s body camera.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • In body camera footage shared by the sheriff’s office, two team members were seen approaching the back area of a home in Ruskin.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Footage captured by the body camera of Rivera days before the shooting showed the officer high-five the teen, who wore a carefree smile.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
  • At the time, local officers on task forces were not allowed to wear body cameras.
    — Simone Weichselbaum, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The video transitions to footage from Jerving’s body camera.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Nearly 13 hours of body camera footage in the search were released in response to a public records request by ABC News.
    — Josh Margolin, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Wilson's family left the courtroom for the 911 call, and her parents kept their heads down to avoid watching the body camera footage.
    — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The family was allowed to view some of the police body camera footage, police said in a Feb. 9 update.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Mills’ body camera footage shows the back of the car becoming engulfed in flames moments after the victim was freed.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In North Carolina, a judge has to approve the release of police body camera video.
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2024
  • The encounter was partly captured by the officers’ body cameras, which were knocked to the ground before the shooting.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Most of the encounter with Crawford was captured on Meyer’s body camera.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Sheriff’s deputies in San Juan Capistrano wear body cameras and footage of the shooting is expected to be released, the outlet added.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024

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