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 Lake Elsinore, throughout Orange 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. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. THE POLICE IN LAKE ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA, ARE THERE TO PROTECT AND SERVE THEM, NOT YOU. If you want to find who is the worst, most brutal, most dishonest officer in any given police agency, just look at which officers were awarded Officer of the Year. In the Lake Elsinore Station, deputy sheriff Betran Blinn was awarded Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy of the Year, apparently for being one of or the most brutal, dishonest and “active” deputies at that station, who has no problem in beating innocent people, including women, for “Contempt of Cop” violations; verbal protest or verbal challenge of police orders or action, even though such verbal protests are constitutionally protected free speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. As Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court William Brennan explained in 1987 in striking down a City of Houston, Texas ordinance that criminalized “any person to in any manner oppose, molest, abuse or interrupt any policeman in the execution of his duty”: “The Houston ordinance is much more sweeping than the municipal ordinance struck down in Lewis. It is not limited to fighting words nor even to obscene or opprobrious language, but prohibits speech that “in any manner . . . interrupt[s]” an officer. The Constitution does not allow such speech to be made a crime. 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” For a while the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’s police services was about as brutal and dishonest as your average Southern California police agency. However, with the election of Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Sheriff Chad Bianco in 2018, things turned for the worse for the citizens of Perris, California and for the rest of Riverside County. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco ushered in a new era at the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for brutality, false arrest and malicious criminal prosecutions of those innocent victims of police outrages, most of these outrages arising out of “Contempt of Cop” situations. Fish rot from the head down, and Sheriff Bianco has turned the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department into a truly rotten police agency. After Chad Bianco became the Sheriff of Riverside County, persons deemed to have committed “Contempt of Cop” (verbal protest and verbal challenge of police orders or actions), have been routinely beaten, tased and pepper-sprayed, and thereafter falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted for various “resistance offenses” such as violation of Cal. Penal Code § 69 (resisting officer with force), Cal. Penal Code § 148(a)(1) (resisting/delaying/obstructing a officer), Cal. Penal Code § 240/241 (assault on officer), Cal. Penal Code § 242 / 243(b) & (c) (battery on officer causing injury) and Cal. Penal Code § 245(c) (assault on officer with weapon). In addition, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office routinely falsely and maliciously criminally prosecutes the victims of police beating, tasing and pepper-spraying victims for these “resistance offenses”, to preclude them from being able to successfully sue the deputies and officers who committed these outrages against civilians, via Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994)(conviction precludes civil claim for false arrest) and via the Doctrine of Collateral Estoppel. MR. STEERING HAS A LONG HISTORY OF SUCCESSFUL LAWSUITS AGAINST THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT Mr. Steering has a long history of successful track record of successful lawsuits against the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department’ for beating innocent civilians; especially for Contempt of Cop type cases. For example, in Silvas v. County of Riverside (2023) Mr. Steering obtained $400,000.00 for a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Sheriff School Resource Officer Derrick Bunn brutalized and falsely arrested a 13-year-old boy at San Jacinto High School during a school lunch recess. See video of beating of 13 year old boy. Also, in Chynoweth v. County of Riverside, Riverside County Superior Court (2011), Mr. Steering obtained $750,000.00 from Riverside County for his being brutalized at the Temecula Rod Run. In Daniel Torres v. County of Riverside, U.S. District Court, Central District of California (Riverside) (2010), Mr. Torres obtained $500,000.00 from Riverside County for tasing and falsely arresting a 64 year old man who was pulled over in a bus turnout in Indian Wells, as he was suffering from a stroke; not drugs of alcohol. In Danny Eatherton v. County of Riverside, Mr. Steering obtained $450,000.00 for the false arrest and use of excessive force upon Mr. Eatherton, who was standing in front of his home, and watching Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriffs beat an unconscious man who had led them on a vehicle pursuit. The man crashed into Mr. Eatherton’s fence in the front of his property that drew him outside. See, Riverside County pays $450,000 to settle lawsuit by bystander who claims he was beaten by deputies. See, Beating of Danny Eatherton. In James Holley v. County of Riverside, Riverside County paid Mr. Holley $500,000.00 for excessive force and false arrest. Gangster deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Jurupa Valley station were carrying out one of their “Saturation Operations”, when they saw James Holley standing on his front lawn; holding a can of beer; something that is not a crime in the City of Jurupa Valley. The gangster deputies accosted Mr. Holley, ordered him to prone himself out on his front lawn, and when he asked “Why”, the beat him badly and falsely arrested him. In Parnell v. County of Riverside, a Lake Elsinore case, Mr. Steering recovered $250,000.00 for undercover Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Detective falsely arresting and using excessive upon David Parnell; an innocent man. The deputies did a shoddy investigation and thought that Mr. Parnell was selling a Ditch Witch drilling device that he had purchased from a legitimate construction supply store in San Bernardino County. 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. Just because the police violated your constitutional rights doesn’t mean that you can do anything about it. In order to “do something about it”, to enforce your constitutional rights, it takes a great deal of experience, insights, skill and savvy. Jerry L. Steering has been suing police agencies for constitutional violations since 1984. He has the experience, insights, skill and savvy to actually win your police misconduct civil rights case, and winning is the only thing that matters. Mr. Steering has also been very successful in suing the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and other police agencies in Riverside County. See, Mr. Steering’s Riverside County page. 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
