Funeral services for LAPD officer Houston Tipping, killed during training, held Tuesday
Funeral services for the LAPD officer who died three days after suffering an injury during a training exercise will be held Tuesday.
Officer Houston Ryan Tipping II, 32-years-old, was engaged in a grappling exercise with another officer when he suffered a spinal cord injury at the agency's Elysian Park training academy on May 26. At the time, he was acting as a bike instructor.
Fellow officers at the scene administered CPR on Tipping until first responders arrived, and he was taken to a hospital where he died three days later.
Tipping was a five-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, working out of the Devonshire District.
The funeral services are set to begin at 9:30 at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was spoke at the funeral service, where he called to "stop the dehumanization" of police officers.
"There is something special about putting a badge on, that badge that is about protecting strangers whose names you do not know," he said. "This wasn't just some training accident. It was an embodiment of the values we put into this department, to defend people ,whether they love us or not, their freedoms and their life."
He is survived by his parents, Richard and Shirley, his siblings Kat and Tyler and his girlfriend Brittany, as well as his grandmothers Peggy, Kathleen and Lynn.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore offered his thoughts on Officer Tipping via Twitter in the hours following his death. He called him "a bright and uplifting young man with a full life in front of him."
Moore indicated that an investigation was launched to ensure that such a tragedy would never occur again.
Officers held a procession for Tipping on June 3, as his body was transported from Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center to the L.A. County Coroner's office.
