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Police fired for playing Pokémon Go instead of helping robbery victim

The court ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department had grounds to fire Louis Lozano y Eric Mitchell for misconduct reported local media.

It’s that a video system in their patrol car captured officers discussing how to catch a Snorlax and trying to catch the rare Togetic in the game while ignoring a report of multiple people robbing a Macy’s store in the Crenshaw area, according to the ruling. .

A police captain who arrived at the scene saw another patrol car parked nearby and wondered why officers hadn’t responded and attended to it himself, according to court documents.

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Police fired for playing Pokémon Go instead of helping robbery victim

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The officers said they had not heard them call for backup over the radio, but on patrol recordings they are heard discussing whether they should respond and Lozano was heard saying, “Oh, to hell with it,” according to court records.

Agents are then heard for the next 20 minutes talking about Pokémon Go, the augmented reality game for mobile phones, which involves using GPS and driving to various locations to capture virtual creatures, according to the files.

They were fired after a police rights board unanimously ruled that the two officers had engaged in unprofessional and disgraceful conduct and violated public trust.

The officers asked a court to overturn their dismissals, arguing, among other things, that recordings of their private conversations were misused as evidence. However, the Superior Court judge denied his request and the appeals court upheld the decision.

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