Here are some of the issues area  residents  are discussing. The statements were phoned  in anonymously, so the Courier does not vouch for their veracity, nor do we know what motivated the callers:

People are rioting around the world because they want the kind of freedom that we have right here. And the only equality God promised was the equal chance to go to Heaven. That’s all I have to say about it.

Got up early this morning to beat traffic onto post. Guess what? There were no cars on the road. They must have given the soldiers the day off or a half day off because of the Super Bowl.

If we took all the money and spread it out evenly among everybody, in less than two years the people who didn’t have any money before would still have no money because they don’t know how to manage money.

A group of people watching a video to see how an officer conducts himself does not dispel the notion of racial profiling as much as the mindset of that same officer that made the stop determines it.