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 Torrance, 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. If you don’t win your case, then you have no rights because you have no way to enforce them. Besides the evidence in the case and the applicable case law and statutes, the two most determinate factors that will influence you to win or lose your case are 1) who is your trial judge, and 2) who is your lawyer is. As the old saying goes, “The young lawyer knows the law, but the old lawyer knows the Judge”. THE TORRANCE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS OFTEN BRUTAL AND IS INSTITUTIONALLY DISHONEST. The most inciteful incident showing what type of police officers staff the Torrance Police Department is the Kiley Swaine case; Kiley Deliefde Swaine v. City of Torrance et al,. United States District Court, Central District of California Case Number Case No.: 2:22-cv-00404-MCS-RAO. In the early morning hours of January 27, 2020 Kiley Swaine was “dumpster diving” with two co-workers of his at a Manhattan Beach restaurant. One of those friends of Kiley Swaine who he was dumpster diving with was Robert Boman. Kiley Swaine was a waiter at the restaurant, and his co-worker friend was a man named Robert Boman. Kiley Swaine only knew Robert Boman as his co-worker, and he did not know that Robert Boman was one of the founders and leaders of the “Rise Above Movement“; a militant alt-right Southern California-based street fighting group which has variously been described as “a loose collective of violent neo-Nazis and fascists, white nationalists, white supremacists, and far-right persons. The Rise Above Movement was responsible for riots across the United States, and Robert Boman and three others were Indicted by the United States Department of Justice for starting those riots. See, Four Local Members of White Supremacy Group Face Federal Charges in Attacks at Political Rallies across California, United States Department of Justice, October 24, 2018. See also, Former Orange County Resident Linked to White Supremacist Group Pleads Guilty to Plotting and Engaging in Violence at Political Rallies, United States Department of Justice, September 13, 2024. While Kiley Swaine and Robert Boman were dumpster diving, another co-worker of theirs who rode with them that night was off stealing mail at a Torrance, California apartment building. A lady resident of the apartment building called the Torrance Police Department to report the mail theft, and when the Torrance Police Department officers arrived at the scene, they found Kiley Swaine and Robert Boman in the vicinity, and arrested them also for suspicion of mail theft (they were never prosecuted). Two Torrance Police Department police officers who arrested Swaine and Boman, Cody Weldin and Christopher Tomsic, recognized who Robert Boman was (a violent white supremacist and neo-Nazi) as one of the leaders of the Rise Above Movement. When the rest of the Torrance Police Department police officers who arrived at the scene of the arrest of Swaine and Boman, they all showed their admiration for Robert Boman and his Neo-Nazi beliefs, and “high-fived” Robert Boman while arresting him. In a sign of solidarity with Robert Boman for his Neo-Nazi / White Supremacists beliefs, Torrance Police Department police officers Cody Weldin and Christopher Tomsic spray painted a swastika on the back seat of Kiley Swaine’s Hyundai sedan. When Kiley Swaine was released from the Torrance Police Department jail, he went to the tow yard to retrieve his car and found that a swastika had been spray painted on the back seat of his Hyundai sedan. He complained to the Torrance Police Department and their investigation showed that Torrance Police Officers Cody Weldin and Christopher Tomsic were the ones who spray painted a swastika on the back seat of Kiley Swaine’s Hyundai sedan. The Torrance Police Department obtained search warrants for Cody Weldin’s and Christopher Tomsic’s cellphones. When they examined those cellphones the Torrance Police Department found racist and neo-Nazi texts between Officers Cody Weldin and Christopher Tomsic, joking about killing blacks, Jews, LBGTs and people of color. Officers Cody Weldin and Christopher Tomsic were criminally prosecuted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. See, Former Torrance Police Officers Charged With Conspiracy, Vandalism, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, August 19, 2021. In all, the Torrance Police Department fired 15 of its police officers for making the cellphone texts about killing and falsely arresting blacks and Jews. See, New racist texts reveal Torrance cops talked about hurting and killing Black suspects, Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2022. The California Attorney General’s Office also investigated the texts between Torrance Police officers. See, California attorney general to investigate Torrance police after racist text scandal, Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2021. In the end, Mr. Steering obtained $750,000.00 from the City of Torrance for Kiley Swaine. See, Torrance pays $750,000 for officers painting swastika on car. 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. 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
