Police Misconduct Attorney Hawthorne, CA

Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions and First Amendment retaliation cases. Mr. Steering in an Expert and Specialist in suing the police in federal court for constitutional violations in the City of Hawthorne, California, throughout Los Angeles County, and throughout the State of California. Mr. Steering has also sued the government as far away as in federal court in Alabama and in the District of Columbia.

Mr. Steering many years of experience and acquired knowledge can help you maximize your chances of actually winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters.

THE HAWTHORNE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS A LONG SORDID HISTORY OF BRUTALITY AND FALSE ARRESTS.

The Hawthorne Police Department has a long history of police brutality and falsely arresting civilians; especially black people. See, A closer look at the Hawthorne Police Department, which recently shot a man’s dog after arresting him for filming police officers, shows a disturbing history of police misconduct. Mountain News, July 2, 2013.

In the late 1980s Hawthorne Police Department Sgt. Don Jackson was placed on Administrative Leave by the Hawthorne Police Department for essentially protesting that agency’s treatment of black persons and of black police officers in that agency. See, Sergeant Charges Hawthorne Police Use Racial Slurs, Los Angeles Times, April 19, 1987.

While on Administrative Leave, Sgt. Jackson was on a crusade to expose the treatment of black males by Southern California Police Agencies; one of them being the Long Beach Police Department. They drove through Long Beach at night, and were subjected to a bogus traffic stop by Long Beach police officers. When Sgt. Jackson protested the stop, the Long Beach Police Officer arrested Sgt. Jackson, placed him against a glass store window, and shoved his face through the plate glass window. See, Cops smash guys face into window and shatter glass. 

Sgt. Jackson’s settled was settled with Long Beach after the involved officers were fired. See, Alleged Police Abuse Case Is Settled : Litigation: Long Beach will pay $170,000 to Don Jackson and friend over a secretly videotaped confrontation with officers after a traffic stop in 1989. Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1994.

In some other cases of police brutality by Hawthorne Police Department police officer, two people who claim they were beaten by Hawthorne police during a raucous party in 2006 have settled their federal civil rights lawsuit for $1 million. Beating suit against Hawthorne police settled, The Whittier Dailey News, August 30, 2017. Anthony Goodrow claimed Hawthorne police officers kicked him in the face while he was handcuffed, breaking his jaw. Karla Henriquez Goodrow maintained she was wrongly arrested when she tried to stop the officers from hurting Goodrow.

In another case, a deaf man has filed a lawsuit claiming he was brutally assaulted by four Hawthorne police officers while he packed his car with snowboarding equipment just before he went to his regular Bible study class a year ago. Deaf man sues Hawthorne police for excessive force, civil rights violations, Daily Breeze, September 6, 2017.

In another case, a videotape showed two Hawthorne police officers slapping high-fives in the aftermath of an arrest in which one of their co-workers allegedly kicked a handcuffed suspect in the face, breaking his jaw. See, Hawthorne pays $1 million settlement in suspect-abuse lawsuit, Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2009.

In another Hawthorne Police Department outrage, a man was permanently blinded in his right eye in May after three Hawthorne police officers allegedly slammed his face into a metal lockbox outside a jail facility and then laughed and ignored his pleas for help in what a federal lawsuit describes as torture. Man alleges eye was permanently blinded after Hawthorne officers slammed him into lockbox. Daily Breeze, September 22, 2021. See also, Arrested by police for a misdemeanor, he went home blind in one eye, Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2021

Police Misconduct Specialties:
Excessive Force Concealing Evidence Destroying Evidence False Arrest	K-9 Maulings Malicious Prosecution Police Beatings Police Brutality	Police Shootings Whistle Blower Retaliation Wrongful Death