Wednesday 5 October 2022 08:34 PM LAPD officer, who was killed in mysterious training accident, was investigating ... trends now
The LAPD officer Houston Tipping who died in a mysterious routine training accident in May, had a history of whistleblowing. In one incident, Tipping got a sergeant fired for lying about an internal affairs investigating involving a chocolate penis.
Tipping, 32, was five-year veteran with the LAPD and worked with the department's bicycle unit.
He suffered a fatal spinal cord injury after he fell down while holding another officer in a 'bear hug' grappling exercise on May 26 at the Police Academy in what a coroner ruled was an accident.
According to an LAPD report, Tipping's last words were: 'I can breathe.'
In a previous incident, Tipping had been involved in an internal affairs investigation that involved a fellow officer bringing a chocolate penis into work as a joke.
During that investigation, Tipping revealed that a sergeant had lied to internal affairs about the joke. As a result, that sergeant was fired. Gage said following that: '[The sergeant's] friends were not happy.'
Gage says that friends of that sergeant were also present at the fatal training exercise, according to attorney Brad Gage.
Officer Houston Tipping, 32, was five-year veteran with the LAPD and worked with the department's bicycle unit
Brad Gage, the attorney for Tipping's mother Shirley Huffman, made the bombshell claims in a press conference yesterday
Gage told DailyMail.com exclusively that the rape that Tipping was investigating occurred in a house in Northridge, California, in June 2021. At the time, Tipping wrote a report on the rape.
During the incident, the woman said that she had a massage tool 'placed in her vagina,' Gage said.
He added that during the alleged rape, the officers were all in uniform and that the victim was able to name three of the four after seeing their names on their badges. One of those cops was present during the training accident.
He said that the initial report on the incident did not mention a rape nor did it mention that some of those involved were police officers.
Gage was that it was two lines long and referred to the incident merely as an 'attack.'
It wasn't until Tipping began investigating the incident, that the allegations of rape became apparent.
In Tipping's report, the victim said that she was raped by four police officers.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the LAPD for more information on that investigation.
Gage, who was hired by Tipping's mother, Shirley Huffman, said: 'I don't think he talked to anybody about the case. He did seem to have a change of attitude.'
'I think he knew one of the officers accused. Apparently, they used to be much closer friends and they weren't anymore.'
Gage continued: 'He decided to look elsewhere for a job, which seems logically connected to this incident.'
His search for new employment was not related to worries of his safety but rather because he was 'so disgusted' by the case, Gage said.
Gage also told DailyMail.com that he has been in touch with the district attorney's office in regards to the case.
The training involved the simulation of being attacked by a mob, the LAPD's official report said.
Tipping was playing the role of a suspect attacking an officer mounted on a bicycle.
The report said that Tipping was struck with a foam baton and dropped to one knee, to simulate a strike with a real baton.
From there: 'Officer Tipping then lifted the officer, the student officer, from the ground and (a) student officer’s arm went around Officer
