PASADENA, Texas (KTRK) On a busy street in Pasadena, you can find La Terreza Michocana, a Mexican restaurant that is usually swarming with customers.
But, slow business due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused restaurant employee Jose Villarreal to make a plea on social media as a call for help. That day, I just kind of looked back, and there was nobody here. I felt pretty bad about it, I just took the picture to see if there s anyway I can help her out, Jose said.
Jose posted a photo on Facebook that showed how lonely their business has been lately, something the restaurant can t afford to be.
Only one person openly disagreed. Since when do losers of laws make the rules? said a phone caller who didn t want the Fallon statue removed. You re erasing history.
The forum hosted by the City Manager s Office, the San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs, San Jose Arts Commission and Mayor Sam Liccardo was held to discuss and understand divergent views on the city s public art.
Activists have long demanded the city remove the Fallon statue.
The statue of one of San Jose s first mayors was commissioned in 1988 to memorialize the raising of the U.S. flag in the city in 1846, but Fallon is a divisive figure because of his hostile treatment of native people and embodiment of American imperialism, after he claimed the city shortly after the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846.