Apple store removing security walls surrounding downtown Portland location

The walls went up several years ago amidst civil unrest in Portland.

PORTLAND, Ore. — At the corner of Southwest 5th and Yamhill, passersby will now find something that they have not seen in a while — the floor-to-ceiling windows of downtown Portland’s Apple Store.

“It makes me feel like I’m not in a police state anymore and they expect people to behave like they should,” Portlander Nancy Merryman told KGW.

For most of the last three years, a protective wall has been up around the popular store. It was for good reason; an overnight protest at the end of May 2020, spiraled into

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