Milwaukee Mexican Fiesta Officials Say Security Measures Are In Place After An Alleged Mass Shooting Threat Was Posted In Snapchat

The Wisconsin Hispanic Scholarship Foundation, Inc. that operates the three-day Mexican Fiesta festival at the Summerfest grounds posted on its Facebook page a statement indicating that security measures are in place after an alleged posting of a mass shooting threat appeared on Snapchat over the weekend.

August 18, 2019

Milwaukee, Wisconsin (HNNUSA) - On Saturday, Ruben Burgos, the President of the Wisconsin Hispanic Scholarship Foundation, Inc. that operates the three-day Mexican Fiesta posted a statement to assure the public and would be festivalgoers for the upcoming three-day festival at the Summerfest grounds that security measures have been made as well other measures that weren't made public after an alleged mass shooting threat appeared on Snapchat on Saturday. Some Facebook users posted and mentioned the alleged Snapchat mass shooting threat and including the WHSF statement about heightened security measures in the upcoming weekend festival at the lakefront.

Burgos's statement, "Mexican Fiesta wants to ensure all of our friends and family that we have plans in place for a safe Fiesta. We are coordinating with the Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office, Summerfest security and the National Latino Law Enforcement Organization-Milwaukee to provide security for the festival. We have had this arrangement for the past 25 years ensuring everyone's safety."

Worth the mention as a community safety measure and public service, Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) checked for any recent activity of any hate groups in the local area including Milwaukee and HNNUSA found that Dawn Maldonado Perez, alias, Damaris Perez, the Founder and operator of Bylyngo Translating and Interpreting LLC in Milwaukee and Mario Herrera, the former Hispanic Outreach Director of the Republican Party of Wisconsin and the current Director of No Better Friend Corp. recently created a fake MAGA (Make America Great Again, known as MAGGOTs) Facebook (FB) page to promote hate and Nazi propaganda in the Latino and immigrant community in Wisconsin and local Milwaukee metropolitan area. The MAGAs have found a platform for the spread of hate for those that follow and support Trump and the MAGA movement of hate and racist rhetoric.

HNNUSA as a public service and for educational purposes identified those MAGAs and followers of the MAGA fake Facebook page who are local business owners, followers and local residents (neighbors) that support or just follow the hate and Nazi propaganda FB page for entertainment purposes. Latino community members and members of the immigrant community also have a right to decide whether to boycott such businesses that support Trump and his hate and racist rhetoric including MAGAs that also promote hate and Nazi propaganda targeted at any member of the community. The communities of color should not tolerate such hate and racist rhetoric including Nazi propaganda whether for entertainment or not.

The MAGAs and their followers do have a right to their own political beliefs and to follow and join any hate group including the FB hate platform that Perez and Herrera have created in FB. MAGAs are considered the alt-right MAGGOTs of the Republican Party that feed on Trump's hate and racist rhetoric. Many Republican conservatives don't follow or support MAGAs, but, they do follow their Republican Party for certain policies and ideals.

Also, the Latino community has the right to know who are these MAGAs and their followers that feed on hate and racist rhetoric and who are using Nazi propaganda in their FB page to target any member of the community.

HNNUSA recently released a list of MAGAs, followers and those who just like the MAGA (hispanicnewsnetworkUSA dot com) hate FB page that connected its link to the Donald Trump donation site (after being exposed by HNNUSA for possibly violating federal campaign laws, the link was removed as of Sunday) for entertainment purposes who should be ashame of themselves for being complicit to promote hate and Nazi propaganda.

HNNUSA did found the fake MAGA Facebook page targeted a member of the Latino community and others,  it should be a concern for everyone just in case their followers or a nut case might be influenced to commit an act of violence against members of the Latino community.

HNNUSA found no connection between the Latino MAGAs fake FB hate page locally and nationally to any mass shooting threat that has been alleged by some concerned FB users, but the communities of color should stand up against any hate group that promotes Nazi propaganda in their FB page whether for entertainment purposes or not.

Members of the Latino community should not alter their lives for any bogus threat of a mass shooting from anyone simply because Mexican Fiesta has a history of providing the best security measures with partnerships with the Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department and members of the Latino Peace Officers Association.

Enjoy the three-day Mexican Fiesta this weekend in Milwaukee.

Editor's note: The fear is real and at a local Cuban Festival in Oak Creek, Wisconsin on Sunday, some festivalgoers were discussing the alleged mass shooting threat circulated in the Latino community and were talking that they weren't going to attend Mexican Fiesta on the weekend, but the Cuban Festival was a success with no incidents reported including the one-day Puerto Rican Festival at Humbolt Park in Milwaukee that drew at least 20K attendees with no incidents, according to the organizers.