On Main Street, shoppers strolled leisurely from shop to shop, oblivious to the town's tensions. I came down here to look for antiques. A little commotion isn't going to change that for me. Bill Stubbs, owner of the Little Red Shed antiques shop, said the run of events is coincidental. Business goes on as usual.
Shoppers keep coming into town.
None of this has affected the town's ambience, its way of life. He called for the chief's ouster. Two councilmen asked the mayor to resign. In early March, Mayor Charles Sanders accused Police Chief Allen Carter of allowing racial profiling. The mayor's charge came after three black men, none residents of Waynesville, claimed that they were stopped by two village police officers for alleged traffic violations, held at gunpoint and handcuffed.