Special Events parking restrictions starting at 6:00 p.m. along S. César E. Chávez Drive not being enforced by MPD and City parking checkers during Cinco de Mayo 2024 anticipated chaotic impromptu flag waving parading and cruising over the weekend.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
May 3, 2024
Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Under the direction of the Milwaukee Police Department District Station 2, a Special Events parking prohibition signs along S. César E. Chávez Drive between W. National Ave. and W. Greenfield Ave. in the Southside of Milwaukee.
El Supermercado El Rey, 900 block of S. Chávez Drive at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 3, 2024 closed its entrance to their parking lot from S. Chávez Drive and will close the entire parking after 8:00 p.m. and no vehicles will allowed to park without authorization.
The Foodmart associated with El Rey at the 1300 block of W. Burnham St. is also expected to close its parking lot as well.
So far, it appears that no parking restrictions are being enforced at 6:00 p.m. by MPD or City of Milwaukee Parking Enforcement Officers. Citations for parking at Special Events designated areas, the fines can vary from $200 to $500 and vehicles will be towed at owners expense.
Police and City Parking Enforcement Officers just before 8:00 p.m. began to enforce the no parking restrictions along S. Chávez Drive and cited vehicles that remained on Chávez Drive after the restrictions went into effect. The no parking restrictions are in effect until Sunday.
At the 1200 block of W. Historic Mitchell Street, several businesses were displaying Mexican flags for sale. But, not to much activity of vehicles displaying the Mexican flag reported in early afternoon.
A business owner along the S. Chávez Drive corridor says, that this year the business is expected to lose up to $7,000 per day, if the S. Chávez Drive is shut down in anticipation of the annual chaotic Cinco de Mayo impromptu flag waving parading and cruising in the Southside. If police shut down S. Chávez this weekend after 6:00 p.m., only walk-in pedestrians will be allowed on S. Chávez Drive until the street is reopened.
Last year during the Cinco de Mayo 2023 impromptu flag waving parading and cruising, several shooters were shot and one 17-year-old male was taken into custody, Charged and convicted of a felony. Full article: https://tinyurl.com/2vwkdywk
Source: Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA)
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