Gangs Fight at Crest v Burns HS Football Game and MORE!!! Stadium Lights go Out During Game, Burns Student Held by Deputies until parent arrives, gun threats in crowd, Young woman collapses after Panic Attack over gun threats, Rescue Personnel try to put woman into EMS Ambulance but couldn’t open the Ambulance Doors. Had to call in a back-up Ambulance to transport woman to hospital. A FUBAR all round!! And the Shelby Star is SILENT on it all!! Report, evaluation and putting the pieces of the puzzle together provided by Robert A

The Burns v. Crest High School Friday Night Football Games are always exciting. This year’s pew-season game, held this past Friday night at Crest High School, seemed to have more excitement than usual. Much more exciting, but BAD excitement. More off the field than on the field. Folks, the Shelby gang’s various activities have left the Shelby inner-city, where the news was stifled, to County High School Football Games where the news is still stifled!!! All Robert A will say about that is “I told you so.” Others have said the same thing. An example is at the bottom of this article.

But first, let’s hit the high spots. The high spots of the bad things that happened at the August 28, 2022, Burns v Crest High School Football games. And I am NOT counting the 35-12 thrashing Burns gave Crest as a bad thing.

First, there was a big fight allegedly involving gangs from both Burns and Crest High Schools. Burns has multiple gangs; Crest has multiple gangs and when the gangs at Burns and Crest are not fighting amongst themselves, they are fighting the gangs from the other schools. One new thing I just learned. When one gang member pulls up the front of his shirt, he is displaying the firearm tucked into his belt as a sign to another gang member or anybody else that “he had better not fuck around with me.”

Also, during this gang fight, there were numerous persons in the crowd making statements that THEY were going to their car and getting their guns. Such statements caused a general “feeling” of danger amongst the “peaceful crowd.” On both sides of the ball field.

And then the stadium lights go out. It seems that taxpayer dollars paid for expensive new lights for the American Legion World Series field at the Shelby High School Baseball Field. And the existing lights at the Shelby High School Baseball Field that were removed so the new lights could be installed there get sent to and installed at the Crest High School Football Field. (Perhaps the old lights at Crest were sent to Burns. That would be typical of how CCS operates.) But, anyway, the Stadium lights at Crest go out during the second half of the game. It takes about 20 minutes to get the lights back on.

But, during this time with the lights out, fans in the crowd are again hearing comments about guns and shootings and such. One woman becomes terrified to the point that she has a Panic Attack and passes out. Basically, collapses right there on the spot. Cries for help go out from many people.

Rescue-trained people in the stands respond quickly. Even School Board Chairman Robert “Luke” Queen and former School Board Chairman Phillip Glover turn up on the scene. And so, does the EMS Truck/Ambulance that was stationed at the game, to begin with. Quick decisions are made that the woman’s condition was critical and she should immediately be taken to the hospital.

But, those Rescuers on the scene cannot open the doors on the back of the EMS Ambulance. After some unsuccessful struggles with the ambulance doors, calls go out for another EMS ambulance. The second EMS Ambulance arrives and takes the woman to the Hospital. Word on Facebook is that she is alive.

All these separate episodes relate to various separate issues within Cleveland County.

Let’s name a few:

1. Street Gangs infiltrating our schools. For many years City of Shelby officials totally denied the presence of Street Gangs in Shelby. Assisted by the Shelby Star. However, the Machine Gun shoot-em-up shenanigans of the “Chopper Boys” in the bad parts of Shelby began the wake-up calls that Shelby Law Enforcement was lying to the Citizens. Then the Drive-By shootings that killed innocent children sleeping at home in their beds by stray bullets couldn’t be denied any longer. There are gangs in Shelby, but they are minority (black) boys and they are contained into certain areas, which became the word around town. Now, Gangs are in our schools and the School Board is denying it. The folks present at the August 26th Burns v Crest HS Football game at Crest NOW know that Gangs are everywhere in Cleveland County. And certainly NOT contained in the bad parts of town in Shelby. And, the Shelby Star is silent. MIA is somewhere in Gastonia.

2.Guns at School. Gangs like guns and gangs like to recruit at Cleveland County Schools. Although no shots were fired at the Burns v. Crest HS Football games, there was plenty enough talk about guns available at the game/ Enough to cause one woman to have a panic attack that morphed into a collapse and a trip to the hospital.

3. The American Legion World Series, using taxpayer dollars, put up new lights at the Shelby High School Baseball Field. Causing a trickle-down effect on the Crest High School Football Field; where the old ALWS hand-me-down lights failed. Setting up a scenario such that darkness and voices in the crowd about guns caused enough fear in the woman previously noted that it resulted in a panic attack.
And ultimately hospitalization.

4. The Functional Failure of the EMS Ambulance Truck. Recently the Commissioners forced the closure of the County Rescue Squads and enlarged the EMS. All allegedly a political “Power Play” by Cleveland County Commissioner Chairman Kevin Gordon for the Commissioners to take over the self-supported Rescue Squads in favor of the EMS, which is under Commissioner Control. Allegedly the various Community Volunteer County Fire Departments will experience the same fate. Sometime in 2023, after the 2022 Elections and before the 2024 elections. Some predict that Commissioner Gordon has developed this plan so he can make a high-paying job for himself running a consolidated Cleveland County Fire Protection system. Kind of like the scenario of former Commissioner Candidate Tommy McNeilly taking the job as the EMS Director, then resigning as a Commissioner Candidate. A candidacy that was ultimately appointed to Kevin Gordon by the Rogue Republicans on the Cleveland County GOP Executive Committee. Remember them? And all their corruption and shenanigans?

5. Last and not least, is the lack of opportunity for recreation, family involvement, and educational development opportunities by a large population of poor and minority children in Cleveland County and concentrated in Shelby which are the breeding grounds of the gangs in the first place. Her, others have laid it out better than Robert A. The following email message about this was drafted by Mr. Willie Green and sent to the CCS Superintendent, all the CCS School Board members, and Law enforcement and copied to Robert A, Mike Philbeck and Andy Dedmon of Political Smackdown, Sheriff Alan Norman, SPD Chief Jeff Ledford, Shelby Mayor Stan Anthony, Shelby City Council Members Charles Webber, and Andrew Hopper, Commissioners Kevin Gordon and Deb Hardin, County Manager Brian Epley, Speaker of the House Tim Moore, State Senator Ted Alexander and District Attorney Mike Miller.

Subject: Gang Problems In Cleveland County Schools
Date: 8/ 27/2022
From: Willie Green
Dr. Fisher,
You have a gang problem that is using the schools in Cleveland County as recruiting grounds for gang activities. And until there is a realization by CCS and Cleveland County that gangs do exist and start taking preventive measures, gang membership will increase, and more innocent students and teachers will be harmed.
The most dangerous gang member is the one(s) who have to prove themselves by inflicting violence on a rival gang member or an innocent bystander, to win respect and entry into the gang. And thus, you see incidents like what happened recently at Crest HS during school hours and last night at the football game. The vast majority of those youths who turn to gangs are good kids that have no family structure (i.e. minorities and low-income) or community support (i.e. after-school programs and activities); simply put they don’t feel welcomed.

To eliminate this gang threat, the county must put in place serious prevention, intervention, and reentry programs. This program has to be led by a person(s) who has the respect of the youth and is not afraid of going into the lion’s den and having discussions on giving those youths a better option and keeping their promise to implement what is promised. And if this program is not implemented, expect more incidents like what took place this past Friday in your other middle and high schools where more innocent students and teachers will be victims and the school is held liable for not providing a safe learning environment for the students and teachers.
Willie A. Green, Sr.

Robert A notes that Mr. Green has previously offered to construct a Sports Complex in Shelby to provide a multitude of the needs necessary to minimize and possibly prevent gangs and delinquency in Cleveland County. Only to be turned down by the City of Shelby and the Cleveland County Commissioners.

Mr. Green has taken his ideas to the City of Athens, Georgia, personally purchased and renovated property, and is set to officially open sometime in the very near future. Athens, Georgia has welcomed Mr. Willie Green and his business proposals with open arms. The City of Shelby and Cleveland County were too stupid to accept Mr. Green’s proposals here in Shelby and Cleveland County, NC. And we all are about to have to pay the price for their stupidity.

Note that if Robert A runs for Commissioner in 2024 (and wins the election), Robert A would do what is necessary to eliminate gangs from our streets and from our Schools. This might include establishing an official communication with Mr. Green regarding the construction of a Sports Complex somewhere in Cleveland County, NC. Perhaps within the structure of a new High School Construction Project.