Los Angeles, California: Cops Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell Fired for Ignoring Robbery Call to Play Pokémon Go Instead

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Cops Fired After Video Showed Them Ignore Robbery Call to Play Pokemon Go Instead

11 January 2022

Over the years, TFTP has reported on multiple instances of cops ignoring calls for various reasons. But LAPD officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell become the first cops on which we’ve reported who ignored calls because they chose to play video games instead of responding to a robbery call in progress. As innocent citizens waited for their security force to show up — who they are forced to pay for — Lozano and Mitchell were catching Snorlax in Pokemon Go. The cops were never charged for betraying the community’s trust, but they were actually fired. For the last three years, ...

Cops Fired After Video Showed Them Ignore Robbery Call to Play Pokemon Go Instead

Two LAPD officers who chose to catch Pokemon instead of stop a robbery in progress, have been permanently fired from the force.

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LAPD officers fired for catching a Snorlax instead of a burglar denied appeal
Squad car recordings caught the officers playing Pokémon Go instead of responding to a request for backup

10 January 2022

Two LAPD officers who were fired from their jobs in 2017 for playing Pokémon Go while on duty have had their appeal for reinstatement denied by a California judge. The officers’ squad car video camera showed the two officers, Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell, ignored a request for backup to play the game, according to court documents. The pair were stationed near a robbery in progress, and after the responding officers put out a call for backup, Lozano and Mitchell seemingly ignored the call and left the area. When asked later why they hadn’t responded to the call, the two ...

LAPD officers fired for catching a Snorlax instead of a burglar denied appeal

Pokémon Go do your damn job.

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Court To Cops Who C20aught Pokemon Rather Than Robbery Suspects: That's A (Justified) Firin'

18 January 2022

Sometimes you can't always get what you want. In this case -- argued in front of a California court -- you can't even get what you need. Ex-officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell wanted their jobs back. They used to be cops working for the Los Angeles Police Department. On the way to a call about a robbery in progress, the officers -- ostensibly "running towards the sound of gunfire" -- found something far more compelling than the job they were hired to do. The opinion [PDF] -- highlighted by Jake White on Twitter to the amusement of thousands -- ...

Court To Cops Who Caught Pokemon Rather Than Robbery Suspects: That's A (Justified) Firin'

I saw Snorlax today Near the stealing… Sometimes you can't always get what you want. In this case -- argued in front of a California court -- you can't even get what you need. Ex-officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell...

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