John Henson Says He Was A Victim of Racial Discrimination At Milwaukee Jewelry Store

Milwaukee Bucks young big man John Henson just signed a nice extension with the team over the summer. Henson and the Bucks agreed to a four-year extension worth over $44 million. In his career to date, he’s made over $10 million on his contracts alone and he’s been the sponsor for some local Milwaukee businesses.

Henson has some money to spend, so earlier today when he decided to go purchase a new watch at a local Milwaukee jewelry store, it should’ve been easy for him to stroll on in and buy whatever he wanted.

Instead, Henson says he was the victim of discrimination.

John Henson posted the following on his instagram account.

Went to @schwankekasten jewelry today in White-Fish Bay during regular business hours . They locked the door and told me to go away . After I rang the doorbell twice everyone went to the back. No answered the door or told me what was going on. This was followed by two police cars pulling up and parking across the street and watching me for 5 minutes ( I assumed they were called by the store ) . I was then approached by 2 officers and questioned about the dealer vehicle I was in which is apart of my endorsement deal with Kunes country Chevrolet and asked me what I wanted amongst other things that were just irrelevant to me being there just trying to shop at the store like a normal paying customer would do . I told them I was just trying to look at a watch. He then had to go in the back and tell them to come out it was safe but this is after they ran my plates and I overheard them talking about doing more of a background check on the car. The employees finally came out of the back and proceeded to conduct business like they previously were as we walked up . This was one of the the most degrading and racially prejudice things I've ever experienced in life and wouldn't wish this on anyone . This store needs to be called out and that's what I'm doing . You have no right to profile someone because of their race and nationality and this incident needs to be brought to light and I urge anyone who ever is thinking of shopping here reads this and doesn't bring any business to this discriminatory place .

A photo posted by @johnhenson31 on Oct 19, 2015 at 11:56am PDT

Henson’s claim against this store is just a ridiculous thing for someone to have to deal with in 2015. It’s been decades since minorities had to deal with discrimination to this degree from a business, so for it to resurface involving a person in the public eye, in his own town that he plays in, makes it even worse.

Since the story broke, the Schwanke-Kasten jewelry store twitter account has gone private and there has been no comment yet on the issue.

It’s 2015. Seriously, this stuff needs to end.