2 LAPD Cops Fired For Ignoring Call For Backup During Robbery To Play Pokémon Go!
perezhilton.comA judge just denied the appeals of two Los Angeles Police Department officers fired from their patrol jobs in 2017 after reportedly playing Pokémon Go while on duty.
On Friday, Judge Mary H. Strobel of the California Court of Appeals upheld the claim that former LAPD officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were legitimately fired for playing Pokémon Go while on duty and ignoring dispatch requests to backup a robbery call. Related: Police Find Man Shot Dead Inside Home After Blind Wife Unknowingly Reported Him Missing The incident in question took place on Saturday, April 15, 2017.
Lozano and Mitchell had been assigned to a patrol beat in LAPD’s Southwest Division. While an LAPD Captain was en route to investigate a homicide that had taken place in the area earlier that day, he received a call for an active robbery in progress at a department store at a nearby mall.
When the Captain came up to the mall, he viewed a police car parked in a side alley “just a few feet away,” though he could not determine if the car was part of his unit or from another division.
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