Police Misconduct Attorney Huntington Beach, CA

HUNTINGTON BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS AND ARE THERE TO SERVE AND PROTECT THEM, NOT YOU.

“Surf City” has a long-earned reputation for police beatings and false arrests of innocents for “contempt of cop” violations; verbal protest of and challenge to police orders and actions.

Huntington Beach Police Department police officers routinely engage in police brutality, false arrests and malicious criminal prosecutions for “resistance offenses” such as “resisting arrest”, battery on a peace officer and battery on an officer with force and violence.

If you want to see this for yourself, just go to Huntington Beach on the 4^th of July and watch one arrest and beating after another. On the 4th of July Huntington Beach Police Officers have been known to arrest persons for not having a license for their bicycles, drinking beer while sitting on their own front porch, public intoxication when person had nothing to drink at all, and various other de minimis public offenses, for no other reason than to send a message to the crowd not do even think of doing anything unlawful; anything.

THE ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE PROTECTS THE HUNTINGTON BEACH POLICE FROM YOU.

No one ever got elected to public office by promising to protect the public from the police. Elected District Attorney’s get reelected by protecting the police from their victims; by prosecuting the victims of police beatings, pepper-sprayings and tasings for bogus “resistance offenses”.

All “resistance offenses” require that the alleged “victim” police officer was engaged in the lawful performance of their duties in order for you to have committed a “resistance offense”. Therefore, if you are convicted of a “resistance offense”, there has been a judicial determination that the officer was not unlawfully detaining you, or unlawfully arresting you, or using excessive force upon you. If they were, they would not have been engaged in the lawful performance of their duties.

Therefore, if you are convicted of any such “resistance offense”, you will almost always now be prevented from successfully suing the police for violating your constitutional rights under the Doctrine of Collateral Estoppel and via the U.S. Supreme Court’s case of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994).

Moreover, the Huntington Beach Police Department knows that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office is all to eager to protect the Huntington Beach Police Department from your potential lawsuit, by filing these bogus “resistance offense” criminal cases, a conviction for which will usually preclude and prevent you from successfully suing the police for violating your constitutional rights. See, “The “Contempt of Cop Game; How Well Can You Play”.

If you have been the victim of a police officer, including an officer from the Huntington Beach Police Department, we can help you.

Jerry L. Steering, Esq.

LAW OFFICE OF JERRY L. STEERING, 4063 Birch Street, Suite 100, Newport Beach, CA 92660; (949) 474-1849; jerry@steeringlaw.com