Portland waives $11M in federal courthouse fence fines
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The city of Portland has agreed to waive $11 million in fines against the U.S. government for a fence around the federal courthouse that was blocking a bike lane, city officials said.
Portland Bureau of Transportation spokesman Dylan Rivera said Tuesday the city will forgo the fines as long as the fence is kept off the street, KATU-TV reported.
Last summer during protests sparked by a white police officer killing George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, the federal government put up a fence around the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse to protect it.