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 Indio, throughout Riverside 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. MOST POLICE BEATINGS, TASINGS AND PEPPER-SPRAYING OF CIVILIANS HAPPEN IN “CONTEMPT OF COP” SITUATIONS. Police beatings usually don’t just begin with a Police Officer just performing a traffic or pedestrian stop on civilians, and immediately begin beating them up and falsely arresting them. These beating incidents usually arise from “Contempt of Cop” situations. These “Contempt of Cop” situations arise when civilians verbally protest or verbally challenge police orders or actions; conduct that is presumptively constitutionally protected. For example, in discussing a Houston, Texas Municipal Ordinance that made it a crime “to assault, strike or in any manner oppose, molest, abuse or interrupt any policeman in the execution of his duty.” In holding the Houston Ordinance as unconstitutionally vague and overbroad, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice William Brennan held: “The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451, 462-463 (1987) Notwithstanding your well-established federal constitutional right to “verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest”, doing so will often result in you being beaten or tased or pepper-sprayed and then falsely arrested; especially in Indio and throughout the Coachella Valley. JERRY L. STEERING HAS SUCCESSFULLY SUED POLICE OFFICERS IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY FOR MANY YEARS. Mr. Steering has also been suing the police in the Coachella Valley since the 1980s. His most notorious cases are Edward Moore et al. v. City of Desert Hot Springs, et al, and Andrea Heath v. City of Desert Hot Springs, et al., Ryan Risk et al. v. Cathedral City et al.. During the 2000s Desert Hot Springs Police Department was basically a crazed gang of murderous cops. They had two factions at DHSPD; the “lettuce eaters” and “meat eaters”. The “lettuce eaters” were those DHSPD officers who refused to use force as a first resort. The “meat eaters” were those DHSPD officers who used and enjoyed to use crippling source as a first resort. The leader of the “meat eaters”, Lt. David Henderson, used to go out on his patrol shift with two cans of pepper-spray, because one can would not be enough for one of his duty shifts. Lt. David Henderson even essentially murdered a man named Michael Sanchez while on-duty. Mr. Sanchez was in a pursuit with Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriffs, and the Sheriffs Deputies claim that Sanchez shot at them. The Sheriff’s Department had already captured Michael Sanchez and had him on the ground, so when David Henderson got to the scene The other leader of the “meat eaters”, Sgt. Anthony Sclafani, ended up going to prison for torturing prisoners at the Desert Hot Springs Police Department Jail. The Andrea Heath case handled by Jerry L. Steering involved DHSPD Detective Andrea Heath suffering incredible retaliation for telling the FBI and a federal Grand Jury how bad DHSPD really was treating the public. DHSPD retaliated so badly against Det. Heath ended-up committing suicide. Local District Attorney’s are simply not competent to criminally prosecute the police and will use any excuse and will find any justification for an Officer-Involved-Shooting. If you don’t believe this, then just take a gander at the ever-growing list of bad-police-shootings that have been found to have been justified by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office in the past few years (See, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office’s Press Releases). None of the 963 fatal police shootings of civilians in 2017 ended-up with the prosecution of those officers who unjustifiably killed a civilian. IF YOU ARE THE VICTIM OF POLICE MISCONDUCT, JERRY L. STEERING CAN HELP YOU. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. Mr. Steering’s many years of experience and knowledge in suing the police can help you maximize your chances of winning your Police Misconduct Civil Rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. If you are the victim of police misconduct, Jerry L. Steering can help you. Call Jerry L. Steering, Esq. at (949) 474-1849, or email Mr. Steering at jerry@steeringlaw.com . FREE CASE EVALUATION 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
