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Families, advocates urge POST to investigate San Diego officer-involved killing of Christopher DeArmond
Summary
Multiple callers at the POST advisory board hearing urged the agency to investigate and consider decertification of San Diego officers involved in the 2023 killing of Christopher DeArmond; POST staff said complainants should use the agency's complaint intake portal and that staff will follow up on existing filings.
At a public comment segment of the Peace Officer Standards Accountability Advisory Board hearing on Oct. 9, 2025, several family members and community advocates called on the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to review and consider decertifying San Diego Police Department officers involved in the Jan. 20, 2023, fatal shooting of Christopher DeArmond.
Patricia DeArmond, who identified herself as the victim's sister, said officers fired multiple rounds at her brother, used hollow-point ammunition, deployed a police dog after he was shot, and failed to render immediate medical aid. "They racially profiled him," she said. "They left him to bleed out on the streets." (Public comments were delivered under the…
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