Milwaukee police officer renders aid to victims in car that struck him head-on

Dash camera footage shows a Milwaukee police officer trying to help people in a car that had just seriously injured him in a head-on crash.

NEW AT FIVE... A TMJ4 NEWSEXCLUSIVE: A MILWAUKEE POLICEOFFICER RECOVERING FROMSERIOUS INJURIES AFTER BEINGSTRUCK HEAD-ON BY ANOTHERDRIVER.

BEN JORDAN TALKED WITHTHE OFFICER TODAY.

HE SHOWS USVIDEO OF THE OFFICER... TRYINGTO HELP THE PEOPLE WHO HIT HIM.(BEN LL-PKG)MILWAUKEE POLICEOFFICER RANDY BRUSO WASDRIVING BACK HERE TO DISTRICT6 LAST TUESDAY WHEN ANONCOMING DRIVER CROSSED THECENTER LINE SMASHING INTO HISSQUAD.(PKG)OFFICER BRUSO HADJUST COMPLETED HIS LASTASSIGNMENT FOR THE DAY AND WASDRIVING DOWN OKLAHOMA AVENUEIN HIS PATROL VEHICLE THEAFTERNOON OF JULY 7THOfficerRandy Bruso - Milwaukee PoliceDept.

(brew-so{42:2} "Atsome point something came overthe radio or something, Iglanced down at my computer, Ilooked up, all of a sudden Icouldn't believe it."DASHCAMERA FOOTAGE SHOWS A CARCOMING RIGHT AT OFFICER BRUSOAT SUCH A HIGH SPEED HE HAD NOTIME TO REACT{:2} (Crash)"Ahhhhh!"Brus{42:4} "Itfelt like somebody hit me inthe chest with a sledgehammer,you know, it was a tense painthere and I tried to gather mycomposure, reach for theradio."(GFX){:4} OFFICERBRUSO: "6190!

There's been acrash.

Somebody hit me headon."SOME PEOPLE IN THENEIGHBORHOOD WALKED TO OVER TOHELP.(GFX){:5} OFFICERBRUSO: "I'm hurt.

Send somemedical.{43:4} "Afterimpact, I just knew I had togo out and help because that'swhat we do.

That's not just myjob, but I'm compelled by mymorals, my values to help."DESPITE HIS IMMENSE PAINOFFICER BRUSO SAYS HE STUMBLEDOVER - TRIED TO BREAK A WINDOW- BUT SOON REALIZED THEVICTIMS INSIDE THIS SMOKINGCAR NEEDED MUCH MORE THAT WHATHE COULD OFFER ALONE{44:5}"I notified dispatch and 'gethere soon.

Tell MFD we needjaws of life'.SADLY, THE 27YEAR OLD DRIVER DIED - THEPASSENGER AND OFFICER BRUSOWERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FORSERIOUS INJURIES.OFFICER BRUSOFRACTURED HIS STERNUM - BROKETHREE RIBS - AND STILL HASBRUISES ALL OVER HIS BODY TENDAYS LATER{45:5} "Simplethings you take for grantedlike just getting up and downin a chair, reaching forwardand I haven't been able tosleep on my bed yet justbecause of the sheer, theweight and gravity and stufflike that."WITH MONTHS OFRECOVERY TO GO - OFFICER BRUSOWANTS THE COMMUNITY TO SEETHIS VIDEO - AND TO REMEMBERTHAT MOST POLICE OFFICERS AREHERE TO SERVE - NO MATTER THECIRCUMSTANCE{47:0} "It's avolatile time right now inthis country and in the cityand the acts of a few peoplebringing us all down andItell you what.

I've been a copover 17 years, there isn't oneday, one day that I came towork where somebody hoped theyhad to hurt somebody or get insome useful force, let aloneshoot somebody.

I've seen whatthat does to people.

They'renot the same person when theyhave to do something likethat.

Nobody wants to do that.We're here to help and we doour best."(BEN TAG)MILWAUKEEPOLICE SAY THEY ARE STILLINVESTIGATING TO FIND OUT WHYTHE DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF HISCAR IN THE FIRST PLACE.

POLICESUPERVISORS SAY THEY AREAWAITING TOXICOLOGY REPORTS TOFIND OUT IF HE WAS UNDER THEINFLUENCE.

REPORTING ONMILWAUKEE'S SOUTH SIDE, BENJORDAN, TMJ4 NEWS.