{"id":252117,"date":"2026-04-04T21:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:59:32","slug":"cesar-chavez-mural-in-downtown-bakersfield-seen-being-removed-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252117\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez mural in downtown Bakersfield seen being removed"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Cesar Chavez mural was seen being removed on Friday morning in downtown Bakersfield.<\/p>\n

A day prior, the words \u201cBelieve survivors\u201d were painted over the mural.<\/a><\/p>\n

RELATED: Cesar Chavez mural in downtown Bakersfield vandalized with ‘Believe Survivors’ graffiti<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Cesar Chavez mural in downtown Bakersfield was defaced with the words \u201cbelieve survivors.\u201d PHOTO: KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n

The mural was located near 18th Street and L Street. The mural appeared back in November 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

The labor leader, Cesar Chavez<\/a>, is accused of sexually abusing girls and women during the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

Dolores Huerta, once considered a Chavez ally, also claims Chavez raped her and that she gave birth to two children from those encounters.<\/p>\n

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In a statement to Eyewitness News, Bakersfield City Councilman Andrae Gonzales said, \u201cThe property owner says the mural had been planned to be removed as soon as April 4th.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Cesar Chavez mural was seen being removed on Friday morning in downtown Bakersfield.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-252117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252117","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=252117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}