{"id":228794,"date":"2026-03-20T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228794\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:13:07","slug":"cesar-chavez-statue-at-fresno-state-officially-removed-president-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228794\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez statue at Fresno State officially removed, president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Cesar Chavez statue at Fresno State has officially been removed following sexual assault allegations against the labor leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/schools-cities-across-valley-reconsidering-062028610.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Schools, cities across the Valley reconsidering Cesar Chavez legacy after abuse allegations;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Schools, cities across the Valley reconsidering Cesar Chavez legacy after abuse allegations&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Schools, cities across the Valley reconsidering Cesar Chavez legacy after abuse allegations<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The statue was quickly covered up earlier this week before being boarded up and ultimately taken down.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Numerous changes are being considered across the city regarding signs and other honors of Chavez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cesar Chavez statue at Fresno State has officially been removed following sexual assault allegations against the labor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[16847,112,114,113,742],"class_list":["post-228794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228794","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=228794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}