Fencing will be going up around the Eugene Federal Building, Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner said in a Eugene Police Commission meeting the night of Feb. 12.
“I think you can expect to see, in the not-so-distant future, some fencing that will go up downtown,” Skinner said, referring to the courtyard where hundreds of protestors were met with projectiles law enforcement characterize as nonlethal, including tear gas, deployed by federal officers in January. He described the effort to fence the area as a “moving target.”
Eugene police will be working with Federal Protective Services, a federal law enforcement agency tasked with protecting federal property, to facilitate the arrival of fencing within the next few weeks, which will likely result in temporary road closures downtown…