Now, as a matter of bean counting this is just wrong \ufffd less than 3 percent of firefighters are black, and less than 4 percent are Hispanic.

I'd heard about them wanting to change the ethnicity of the original picture, but (if the article is correct) I certainly didn't know how few hispanics and blacks were actually firefighters. Which, as the author of this article said, makes creating a multiethnic sculpture even more of a stretch.