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The family of Houston Tipping, an LAPD officer who died during a training exercise earlier this year, accused the department of attempting to “cover-up” the nature of Tipping's death. Tipping died of a spinal cord injury after he was dropped on his head during a “mob simulation” training exercise at the police academy in Elysian Park. An attorney for the family said during a press conference that Tipping was investigating the officer who dropped him on his head for allegations of sexual assault. “It smacks of a cover-up,” the attorney said during a press conference last week. [VICE News]
—Los Feliz: P-22, the famous mountain lion who recently killed a leashed chihuahua, was captured in the backyard of a home in Los Feliz. [LAT]
The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Control issued its first "pre-approved unicorn license" to a six-year-old. [CNN]
—Norwalk: L.A. County prosecutors declined to criminally charge the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies who shot and killed Frederick Holder. Deputies claimed that Holder pointed a firearm at them, but no weapons were found at the scene, only a butane lighter. Following Holder’s death, his family held 33 days of protests outside of the Norwalk sheriff’s station. One day for each shot that deputies fired at Holder. [Cerise Castle/Twitter]