Two police officers in Los Angeles lost their jobs due to video games.
They were found playing Pokemon Go on duty and did not respond to a senior about sustainable robbery, both of which were fired and their petition on the assessment was rejected by the court of the recent trial, according to the report by Vice.com.
Police officers Los Angeles Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell have been fired because “deliberately understood their duties to help the command officer response to the ongoing robbery and played Mobile Pokemon games while on duty.”, Say Official Court Documents.
According to the report, the incident occurred in April 2017 but the court said the final judgment recently after both of them appealed the decision of Los Angeles City and “submitted a petition for an administrative command that challenged their work.” But the court court denied their petition.
According to the report, the two police officers got a call from patrol officers to respond to robbery in Macy at the Crenshaw Mall Los Angeles.
They were near the location of the robbery but did not respond and went instead.
Based on video and audio evidence, both were finally fired.
According to the report, they talked about responding to robbery, but chose not and a few moments later, began to pursue Snorlax in the game.
Official court documents say that “For about 20 minutes, [Monitoring System in the Car] Catch [Mitchell and Lozano] Discuss Pokémon when they go to different locations where virtual creatures seem to appear on their cellphones.
On their way to the Snorlax location, Officer Mitchell reminded Lozano officers who only appeared ‘.
“” After Mitchell apparently caught Snorlax – exclaiming,’ getting ‘them’ – Applicant agreed to ‘go figure’ and leave.
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