Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Milwaukee Police Department And Alderman Jóse G. Pérez Want El Rey FoodMart Store To Close Early On Weekends When Hispanic Festivals Are Happening


El Rey FoodMart grocery store in the Southside of Milwaukee has allegedly become a target by the Milwaukee Police Department and Alderman Jóse G. Pérez who apparently told the owners that their store should close early on weekends when Latino/Hispanic festivals and other events occur to avoid such impromptu nuisance crowd activity at El Rey's parking lot by impromptu chaotic revelers.

By H. Nelson Goodson 
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

January 31, 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Tuesday, Olivia Villarreal, one of the owners of El Supermercado El Rey posted a comment on social media in regards to multiple shootings in August 2023.

No homicides were reported, but multiple shooting victims were injured on Saturday at the 1400 block of W. Burnham Street and Sunday at the 1300 block of W. Historic Mitchell Street in mid August 2023. Suspects are still being sought by police for the Saturday mass shooting by El Rey FoodMart parking lot. (http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-55-year-old-hispanic-male-fatally.html)

Villarreal's comment in the thread says, "...now police and our alderman have requested that El Rey Food Mart, first of al put speedbumps all over our parking lot and police so worried for our customers safety , they ask us to close early on Saturday & Sunday during any festival!"

According to Villarreal's posting, she didn't say if any other business near their grocery store property in the Southside have been told to close early as well on the weekends by police and Alderman Pérez.


Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA)

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