{"id":248888,"date":"2026-04-02T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248888\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:40:10","slug":"cesar-chavez-mural-in-downtown-bakersfield-defaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248888\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez mural in downtown Bakersfield defaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Cesar Chavez mural in downtown Bakersfield was defaced with the words \u201cbelieve survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deface was seen on Thursday morning near 18th Street and L Street.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness News has reached out to the Bakersfield Police Department for information.<\/p>\n<p>The labor leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Cesar%20Chavez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cesar Chavez<\/a>, is accused of sexually abusing girls and women during the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Cesar Chavez mural in downtown Bakersfield was defaced with the words \u201cbelieve survivors.\u201d PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1218e7b4-e5e2-4582-b307-39085a53738f-Image28.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Cesar Chavez mural in downtown Bakersfield was defaced with the words \u201cbelieve survivors.\u201d PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Dolores Huerta, once considered a Chavez ally, has alleged that Chavez raped her and that she gave birth to two children from those sexual abuse encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Cesar Chavez mural in downtown Bakersfield was defaced with the words \u201cbelieve survivors.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-248888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248888","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=248888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}