Police officer who showed teens obscene videos faces lawsuit, loses license

34-year-old Justin Raymond Ramirez, a former Orange County sheriff’s deputy, has lost his law enforcement license after facing accusations of showing obscene and violent videos to a group of teenage girls while serving as a school resource officer at Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, California.

In September 2022, during a school lunch break, Ramirez allegedly showed two girls, aged 15 and 16, a video of a couple having sexual intercourse while sitting in his patrol car. The girls then called over two more friends, and Ramirez displayed the explicit video to all four of them.

The disturbing video reportedly escalated in violence, showing another man entering the room and stabbing the first man and woman repeatedly, eventually killing the woman.

Authorities also found evidence of Ramirez sharing a second video with the group of teens, which depicted two men smoking a controlled substance, with one man blowing smoke into the other’s rear.

Additional content discovered on Ramirez’s phone included inappropriate images and videos, some allegedly taken from crime scenes, as well as nude photos of Ramirez taken on police grounds.

Ramirez resigned from the Sheriff’s Department in December 2022 after the incident came to light. In April 2023, he entered a court-ordered diversion program that allowed him to avoid jail time for misdemeanor charges related to the videos.

The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) revoked Ramirez’s law enforcement license in March 2023, and the decertification was finalized in September 2023. This decision bars him from serving as a law enforcement officer in California and will be included in a national database of decertified officers.

Just days before the license revocation, a civil lawsuit was filed against Ramirez and Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes by the family of one of the teenage girls.

The civil lawsuit alleged that the girl experienced “extreme emotional distress” after the incident, feeling a deep loss of trust in law enforcement. The lawsuit also claimed that the girl was initially hesitant to inform her parents about what had occurred.

When the girl’s mother finally contacted authorities, she reportedly emphasized that she did not want law enforcement officers, particularly Ramirez, knowing where the family lived.

However, despite assurances that a different agency would handle the matter, Ramirez and another deputy allegedly showed up at the family’s home.

According to the complaint, Ramirez “had a strange grin on his face” while the mother explained her concerns, without her realizing at the time that Ramirez was the officer involved in the incident.

Sheriff Don Barnes later reportedly called the mother to apologize, stating that he was “just as angry as she was” about the situation.

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The lawsuit seeks to hold Ramirez and the Orange County Sheriff Department accountable for the distress caused to the girl and her family. The family alleges that Ramirez’s actions were inappropriate and violated the trust placed in him as a school resource officer.