Ballistic shields used during Milwaukee police shootout: ‘Actually had lives saved’ [Video]

Three Milwaukee police officers were injured in a shootout with a suspect Thursday morning at an apartment near 91st Street and Appleton Avenue. After the gunfire stopped and the suspect was arrested, retired 35-year Milwaukee police officer Dennis Justus received several calls from his colleagues.”People that either were on the scene or other people that I trained with telling me that for the most part, ‘All the programs that you helped start, you actually had lives saved today because of that,'” Justus said.Specifically, ballistic shields were used to protect officers from the gunfire. Justus said he had been advocating for the department to get the shields since the Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022. “That kind of came to the forefront and really what pushed Milwaukee Police Department to get these pieces of equipment. The need was there to have patrol officers to have that equipment …