https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/25/infamous-san-jose-statue-of-thomas-fallon-is-taken-down/ > 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. > After years of efforts to remove the Fallon artwork — 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.