Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police since 1984 for police brutality, false arrests, malicious criminal prosecutions, Wrongful Deaths and First Amendment retaliation cases. The City of Desert Hot Springs Police Department is one, if not the most brutal and corrupt police agencies in California. Historically, most of the police officers at the Desert Hot Springs Police Department have been fired by other police agencies, with DHSPD being their department of last resort; the only agency that would hire them. This is no joke. DESERT HOT SPRINGS POLICE LT. DAVID HENDERSON LITERALLY GETS AWAY WITH THE MURDER OF MICHAEL SANCHEZ. Desert Hot Springs Police officers are acutely aware of what they can and cannot get away with, and they all know that they can beat, falsely arrest, maliciously prosecute and even kill civilians, and get away with it. For example, in the mid-2000s former Desert Hot Springs Police Department Lt. David Henderson actually killed a man named Michael Sanchez. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department went on a chase for Michael Sanchez in the desert in unincorporated Desert Hot Springs. When the Sheriff’s Department deputies caught Michael Sanchez, they beat him badly. Lt. Henderson was apparently disappointed by not being able to beat-up another civilian, so while Michael Sanchez was lying on the ground, crying in pain, Lt. Henderson did a football style place kick in his testicles and actually killed him. Again, this is a true story, backed up by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department police reports. Although Lt. Henderson was eventually criminally prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice for torturing prisoners at the Desert Hot Springs jail, nothing happened to him for murdering Michael Sanchez; nothing. THE DESERT HOT SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT; THE “MEAT EATERS” VS. THE “LETTUCE EATERS”. The Desert Hot Springs Police Department police officers routinely beat-up, falsely arrest and maliciously prosecute their victims for bogus “resistance offenses” such as violation of Cal. Penal Code Sections 148(a)(1) (resisting / obstructing / delaying peace officer), 69 (resisting or deterring peace officer with threat or actual violence), 241(c) (assault on peace officer) and 243(b) (battery on peace officer). DHSPD was so bad in the 2000s that they actually had two factions; “The Lettuce Eaters” and “The Meat Eaters”. “The Meat Eaters” were head-up by Lt. David Henderson. Lt. Henderson was so brutal that when he went out on patrol he always had two cans of pepper-spray on him, because one can was not enough for one of his duty shifts. No joke. In order to pass their probationary period as new DHSPD Officers, they had to “engage” if they worked Lt. Henderson’s day shift. “Engage” meant to beat-up some innocent badly, and to thereafter frame them for a crime against the officer. Lt. Henderson was so cruel, that he used to put WD-40 straws on his pepper-spray cans, place the straw up the nostril of handcuffed arrestees, and discharge the pepper-spray into the arrestee’s nostrils; again, no joke. Lt. Henderson was eventually Indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for torturing prisoners and reached a misdemeanor plea deal with the government. SGT. ANTHONY SCLAFANI GOES TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR TORTURING PRISONERS AND ARRESTEES. DHSPD Sgt. Anthony Sclafani, one of the leaders of The Meat Eaters was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison for torturing inmates and arrestees. Sclafani tortured a gang member and a DUI arrestee; snapping her ankle, dousing her with pepper-spray, and passing around the taser to his subordinate officers to all take a turn zapping her. DHSPD was so corrupt that while criminal charges were pending against Sclafani, they took him of the streets and had him vetting new police officers. Jerry L. Steering successfully sued both Henderson and Sclafani in Superior Court in Indio, California. THE ANDREA HEATH AFFAIR. Andrea Heath was a DHSPD Detective. When the FBI came to investigate the torturing and beating of arrestees and innocents by the DHSPD, Detective Heath told the FBI the truth; that DHSPD was a brutal, corrupt and even murderous police agency. She was retaliated against and eventually wrongfully terminated. Her fellow officers ostracized her and made racial comments about her. They took the bullets out of her AR-15 and would not back-her-up on shooting and other dangerous calls. The literally drove her to commit suicide. THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE IS NOW THE PROTECTOR OF BAD APPLE COPS. To make things worse, Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin has created a new Crimes Against Peace Officers Unit. The role of that Unit is to falsely and maliciously prosecute the innocent victims of police misconduct, to prevent / preclude those innocents from suing the police. It is shameful. JERRY L. STEERING HAS SUED POLICE OFFICERS IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY AND THROUGHOUT RIVERSIDE COUNTY. Mr. Steering has also been suing the police in the Coachella Valley and throughout Riverside County since the 1980s. See, Mr. Steering Riverside County page. JERRY L. STEERING CAN MAXIMIZE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING YOUR CASE IN FEDERAL COURT. You need a lawyer with many years of experience of suing the police in federal court to actually win your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case. Jerry L. Steering has been suing the police in federal court since 1984. He has the experience, the knowledge and the savvy to actually win your case; to convince a jury of cop-lovers to unanimously vote for you, and to condemn the police. As the old saying goes: “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge.” If you are the victim of Police Misconduct, Jerry L. Steering can help you. Call Mr. Steering at (949) 474-1849, or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com. Suing Police Officers for Violating your Constitutional Rights since 1984. Free Case Evaluation
