[1] In late August 2014, Ferguson police officers began wearing body-mounted video cameras donated by Safety Visions and Digital Ally.

[8] On December 1, 2014 President Barack Obama announced that the federal government will spend US$75 million on body cameras for law enforcement officers, as one of the measures taken in response to the shooting in Ferguson.

On July 28, 2015, an appeals court ruled that Davis could continue his excessive-force suit against the Ferguson Police Department.

[16] Although the city initially appealed the jury verdict, it later agreed on February 1, 2017 to pay the full amount to settle the lawsuit and end the case.

On August 10, a day of memorials began peacefully, but some crowd members became unruly after an evening candlelight vigil.

[22] Chief of Police Tom Jackson drew criticism for his department's release of information about Brown's death, which was described by the Associated Press as "infrequent" and "erratic", as well as for the aggressive response to the unrest.

[23] Jackson said that his top priority in Ferguson was race relations and committed to reach across the racial, economic, and generational divides in the community to find solutions, and said he welcomed the Justice Department training on racial relations between police and the residents, in which two-thirds of the residents are black and all but three of the police force's fifty-three officers are white.

[24] Six weeks after the incident, a press relations firm released a video in which Jackson apologized to Brown's family for taking too long to remove Brown's body from the street, and to the peaceful protesters who felt they couldn't exercise their Constitutional rights, saying that "For any mistakes I've made, I take full responsibility".

[25] On October 24, Amnesty International published a report detailing human rights abuses by Ferguson police.

[28][29] This incident and the aftermath resulted in world-wide criticism of police tactics and highlighted racism in the United States.

[32] The DOJ investigation concluded that police officers in Ferguson routinely violated the constitutional rights of the city's residents by applying racial stereotypes and discriminating against African-Americans.

[37] Chief Jackson resigned on March 11, 2015, following the release of the Justice Department report and the firing of five Ferguson city officials and police officers.