{"id":250219,"date":"2026-04-03T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250219\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:46:07","slug":"cesar-chavez-mural-seen-being-removed-after-recent-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250219\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez mural seen being removed after recent vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Onlookers in Downtown Bakersfield witnessed the Cesar Chavez Mural being removed Friday morning after being defaced earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The mural at the northeast corner of 18th and L streets in Downtown Bakersfield read &#8220;believe survivors&#8221; in gold spray paint across the nose of Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after multiple <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turnto23.com\/news\/in-your-neighborhood\/bakersfield\/cesar-chavez-accused-of-sexual-abuse-in-report-prompting-changes-statewide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of Chavez sexually assaulting young girls and Dolores Huerta<\/a> during the pivotal times of the farmworker labor movement, which birthed the UFW.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when the vandalism to the mural occurred.<\/p>\n<p>23ABC has reached out to the Bakersfield Police Department for more details and if a report has been filed.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Onlookers in Downtown Bakersfield witnessed the Cesar Chavez Mural being removed Friday morning after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,16847,111439,16848,1048,162,78693],"class_list":{"0":"post-250219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","10":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","11":"tag-bakersfield-news","12":"tag-cesar-chavez","13":"tag-cesar-chavez-mural","14":"tag-dolores-huerta","15":"tag-downtown-bakersfield","16":"tag-kern-county-news","17":"tag-vandalized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250219","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=250219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}