Milwaukee bars are banning Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes

MILWAUKEE (WISN) – Some Milwaukee bars are banning Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes this weekend.

The infamous serial killer took the lives of 17 males and boys between 1978 and 1991, killing most of his victims in Milwaukee.

The bars try to teach individuals who don’t know the trauma Dahmer brought on.

Forward of Halloween festivities, administration at D.I.X. Milwaukee is warning prospects one costume is not going to be tolerated.

“We perceive there’s a era on the market that didn’t stay this example. They might not perceive the severity of the way it affected the group,” bar supervisor Eric Hamilton mentioned.

Selling their Saturday Halloween social gathering and costume contest, the bar additionally posted on Fb, “Please, no Jeffrey Dahmer costumes.”

“We don’t need to put patrons within the state of affairs the place they must see or relive one thing that they needed to really expertise,” Hamilton mentioned.

It was traumatizing time the LGBTQ-plus group lived via.

Authorities say he met a lot of his victims in homosexual bars in Walkers Level.

D.I.X. in Walkers Level isn’t the one one sending this message. One other bar downtown can also be warning their prospects to not present up in a Dahmer costume.

The bar This Is It additionally posted their very own Dahmer costume ban on Fb, saying its been getting telephone calls ever for the reason that Netflix collection aired, including, “such hateful and disrespectful costumes is not going to be allowed in our area.”

“It actually sort of infuriates me. It simply, actually, one we shouldn’t — shouldn’t even be having to,” Hamilton mentioned.

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