There's been little progress in that direction and many residents remain distrustful of officers and city leaders, said Velma Williams, a Sanford city commissioner who represents Goldsboro, a majority black neighborhood.
Velma Williams, its sole black city commissioner, calls Sanford a small, friendly, good city. But she said that a string of unsolved cases had raised questions over whether the police had a cavalier attitude whenever a black male is murdered. Nonsense, countered its acting police chief, Darren