The Los Angeles Police Department is mourning the loss of Officer Thomas Denton, a veteran officer assigned to the department’s Metropolitan Division who died during an on-duty training exercise in Huntington Beach.
According to reports, Denton was participating in an LAPD dive-team training operation on Nov. 5 when an emergency occurred. The officer was transported to Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, where he was later pronounced dead.
Authorities have not publicly disclosed the cause of the incident, and the circumstances remain under investigation…