SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Newly promoted Capt. Cornelius Blue rose through the ranks of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office over the last three decades after making a promise to his grandmother in 1990.She was thrilled about his desire to serve his community.
The rest of Blue’s family, living in the historically black community of Sanford’s Goldsboro, was not.“I’m not excited to talk about it, but my uncle he had a rough past, had he had some encounters with law enforcement one in particular that I witnessed and it scarred me,” Blue said. “I had a strong desire to want to serve, it was in me as a calling.