{"id":228778,"date":"2026-03-20T16:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228778\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:59:07","slug":"cesar-chavez-statue-at-fresno-state-officially-removed-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228778\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez statue at Fresno State officially removed, president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Cesar Chavez statue at Fresno State has officially been removed following sexual assault allegations against the labor leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The statue is gone less than a week after an initial bombshell report from the New York Times accusing Chavez of sexual abuse of women and minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/schools-cities-valley-reconsidering-cesar-chavez-legacy-abuse-allegations\/18733389\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Schools, cities across the Valley reconsidering Cesar Chavez legacy after abuse allegations<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The statue was quickly covered up earlier this week before being boarded up and ultimately taken down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I want to acknowledge that this moment is about more than any one individual person, as the issue has a layered complexity: Fundamentally, it&#8217;s about protecting one another; at the same time, it&#8217;s about forging community, promoting belonging, and thanking and dignifying the farmworkers whose hard work and sacrifice puts food on our table,&#8221; said Fresno State President Dr. Sa\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez-Sandoval in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Numerous changes are being considered across the city regarding signs and other honors of Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Cesar Chavez statue at Fresno State has officially been removed following sexual assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[103941,16847,112,114,113,742,103940,13562,294],"class_list":["post-228778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-103941","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state","tag-removed","tag-statue","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}