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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 board's rules limiting factual detail when a formal complaint or investigation is open.)
The POST assistant executive director and other staff repeatedly told callers that POST cannot discuss investigative facts in public comment if a complaint has been filed because public disclosures could jeopardize an investigation. POST staff provided the board's complaint-intake address (complaintintake@post.ca.gov) and said an acknowledgment letter had been sent for one submitted complaint and that staff would follow up on its status.
Advocates urged POST to use its authority to decertify officers they named in public comment as having been involved in the shooting: officers identified by callers included Christopher Aguilar, Jacob Myers, Sergeant Rene9e Murillo, and Patrick Harvey. Cindy Nunez and other callers described the family's view that officers escalated the stop, used unauthorized ammunition, and allowed a police canine to continue biting a person who was already wounded.
Supporters with community organizations added similar calls. Melissa Miramontes of United Families for Justice gave POST a complaint reference number, R002950-050925, and said she had filed paperwork on May 9. She asked POST to investigate and to consider decertifying the officers named.
POST chair Joyce Dudley and POST assistant executive director said POST would follow up with families that reported they had already filed complaints and that staff would assist callers in using the complaint portal. POST said a complaint received in July had been acknowledged and that follow-up could take months because the division must obtain documents from the employing agency before completing its review. POST said it will not discuss evidence or case specifics in public comment when the same complaint is the subject of an open investigation.
Speakers for the families and community emphasized trauma and long-standing distrust of law enforcement in neighborhoods where the officers patrol. Callers asked POST to act to restore public trust by decertifying officers they said had committed misconduct. At least one family member asked POST staff to contact them directly after the hearing about the status of their complaint.
