Court upholds firing of 2 LAPD officers who ignored a robbery call to play 'Pokemon GO'

[discocrisco01]

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Two Los Angeles police officers who were fired in 2017 for playing the video game Pokémon GO while on the job, have been denied reinstatement by a judge.

A surveillance system in their patrol car captured Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell discussing how to catch the Pokémon character "Snorlax" just a few minutes after saying "screw it" to responding to a robbery at a Macy's in the Crenshaw area of L.A., according to court documents.

Read more: https://abc7.com/lapd-pokemon-video-game-firing/11454747/

[EYESORE 9001]

1. To Serve and Protect

as long as it doesn’t interfere with playing video games.

[Amishman]

2. Sad thing is the problem seems to have been the lying, not the failure to respond itself

Then again, time and time again the courts have upheld that police do not have an obligation to intervene or protect the public

DeShaney v. Winnebago County
Warren v. District of Columbia
Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales