A Los Angeles Police Department officer died after he was supposedly dropped on his head by a fellow cop during a training exercise in May. But what was reported as a tragic, on-duty accident was actually retaliation for the officer’s efforts to break the so-called “Blue Wall of Silence,” a lawsuit filed by his family last week alleges.
The family for the late officer Houston Tipping says that the department and the city allowed him to teach a class with a reputation for being...