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Internal LAPD report rules that officer’s training death was an accident

A picture of Los Angeles Police Officer Houston R. Tipping during his memorial service at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills on June 22, 2022, in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES — The death of Los Angeles police officer Houston Tipping during a training exercise last spring was an unforeseeable accident, an internal Los Angeles Police Department inquiry has concluded.

A report on the department’s probe into Tipping’s death was presented to the Los Angeles Police Commission on Tuesday — the first detailed public accounting the LAPD has offered of the May 26 incident.

The department’s investigation found Tipping and the other officers involved in the training session followed standards set by a state agency, Lizabeth Rhodes, director of the LAPD’s Office of Constitutional Policing

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