“I feel fine here. I’m getting gas and I don’t feel threatened in any way,” said Annette Doell. “I feel safe here.”

Doell says she was a little put off that a public official would say that about the area.

“It disappoints me,” she said. “I would think that they’d know there’s plenty of safe places in this city. I feel safe. I don’t have a problem.”

While Errigo clarified the comments about President Obama, there was no clarification or retraction about Carter Street at this point.