Editor’s Note: Rev. Dante Murphy, founder of the Southern Coalition for Equal Protection Under the Law (SCEPUL) movement, provided this comment to my article titled “City of Shelby Leadership are ALL Holding their Breath!!!!” However, there are plenty of relevant material related to school system sex crimes, scandals and coverups that almost exactly resemble what goes on at Cleveland County Schools this very instant. Of particular note are the links to TV Investigative Reports on Corruption that SCEPUL was instrumental in bringing about. Folks, If Cleveland County had such responsible news agencies as those the included links provide, you would be hearing the very same thing with only the names changed to CCS and the Local Law Enforcement and District Attorney names.
This is Rev. Murphy’s Comment:
Mr. Williams,
I wish to comment on the attached article ( https://citizensforgoodgovernment.org/online/cgg-investigations/city-of-shelby-leadership-are-all-holding-their-breath-on-august-26-2020-nc-court-of-appeals-to-hear-shelby-case-and-decide-whether-or-not-crooks-and-malicious-liars-are-immune-from-prosec/ ) and have included some of the “fixer” attorneys that are defending illegal and unethical acts by elected and government officials. I use the term “fixer” in a way to invoke some level of urgency to the subject matter.
It is my understanding the Attorney Martha Thompson has received tens of thousands of dollars covering up the vicious bad acts by the City of Shelby officials. Attorney Scott Hart is one of the attorneys representing New Hanover County Commissioner Rob Zapple in Murphy v. Rob Zapple–that lawsuit is also costing thousands of dollars. Deborah Stagner is representing the New Hanover County Board of Education in Murphy v. Attorney Wayne Bullard & NHC Board of Education. I mention this for the purpose of expounding on a greater and connecting issue–defunding the police. The idea of defunding the police makes good sense in its relationship to the need to defund government overall. Government entities spend millions of dollars paying attorneys to cover up bad acts. It is my hope that when police departments are defunded more money will be utilized to pay the frontline workers who do the real work. Top administrators within government are corrupt to the point that downsizing is not a bad idea.
It seems to be no dispute that County Manager Rick Howell sent a defamatory email across a public server making it accessible to the public. Motions to dismiss have been denied time and time again, but the lawyers keep fighting. There is no dispute that New Hanover County Commissioner Rob Zapple engaged in a retaliatory conversation with a UNCW Professor in hopes of deterring that Professor from associating with me. I have the email that Zapple sent in an effort to explain the issue away by saying that “he was misunderstood.”
https://www.wect.com/2020/08/11/change-venue-requested-peter-frank-case/
https://www.wect.com/video/2020/08/10/wect-investigates-cover-up-culture-part/
The links above give indication that corrupt government officials are losing power. I wish to point out that the first article contains a statement that “The case is currently in New Hanover County Superior Court, but a spokesperson for the North Carolina Department of Justice, which is now handling the prosecution due to a potential conflict of interest at the local level, said a judge is considering whether to move it.” The “potential conflict” is that District Attorney Ben David is part of the scandals named in the above articles. The major question he has failed to answer over and over is his failure to charge a school staff person with a crime after he sent illicit text messages to a twelve-year-old student. The perpetrator went on to have a sexual relationship with that child.
In addition to what you have written, it is highly rumored that the FBI have launched investigations into the matter. I do not have the details but hope to find out what is going on in the near future.
Thanks for the article and I look forward to see how some of these matters get resolved.
Rev. Dante’ Murphy
Editor’s Note Part II: If you did not pull-up the links included in Rev. Murphy’s comments, Please do so NOW!! Change the names and you have Cleveland County Schools described exactly. Similar corruption as reported elsewhere is here in Cleveland County too. My readers will recognize my previous articles with similar reports. And with more to come. Cleveland County Citizens, be prepared to be thoroughly embarrassed that you have put up with so much and for so long.
A vote in the 2020 Elections for School Board Candidates Robert Queen, Ron Humphries, Joel Shores, Rodney Fitch and Samantha Davis would rid the CCS School Board and schools of their corruption.
