The statue was seen as a symbol of American imperialism by some in the community
In the wee hours of the night on Monday and with roughly a dozen onlookers, construction crews donned their hard hats and reflective vests to remove the controversial Thomas Fallon statue in downtown San Jose.seen as a symbol of American imperialism by the South Bay’s Mexican and Indigenous communities
— a crane plucked the 16-foot-tall, 12,000-pound bronze statue off its concrete base and placed it into a storage crate. The city will hold on to the statue for now. There are currently no plans to fill the now-empty spot at the traffic median on St. James Street, though some in the Indigenous community have called for there to be a statue that is more inclusive for the city.
According to city officials, the artwork is worth approximately $6,000 and cost the city nearly half a million dollars to remove. The statue, which depicts the former San Jose mayor and captain in the Mexican-American War on horseback raising an American flag, was installed in 2002 after being held in storage for a decade amid public outcry over its purported symbolism. Pressure to remove the statue gained traction after the protests in the summer of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd —
. The artwork was commissioned in 1988 by then-Mayor Tom McEnery and is supposed to commemorate American settlers’ victory in the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846 when California was taken from the Mexican government.
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