Christmas went on the auction block this week in Pennsylvania farm country in the form of a giant Christmas tree sale.

On the contrary, residents say, Brunswick has often stood out for its ability to work through troubled times peacefully, though it is far from perfect. “I don’t think a few bad white people have defined this whole community,” Mayor Cornell Harvey told The Associated Press. But the organization worked with white residents, and many places were integrated without protest or confrontation. But she also pointed to a recent anti-racism training she co-facilitated at the city's Robert S. Abbott Race Unity Institute. Ahmaud's killing “is not just an issue that people here say is one for the black community.