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Random: LAPD Officers Fired For Catching Pokémon Instead Of Crooks

“Holy crap, man. This thing is fighting the crap out of me”.

Court documents have revealed details of a story of two LAPD officers who were fired from the force back in 2017 for playing Pokémon GO on duty — whilst ignoring calls for backup at a nearby robbery-in-progress.

As reported by Vice, Officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell, who have just had their appeal for reinstatement denied by a California judge, were in the vicinity of an ongoing robbery at a Macy’s in Crenshaw when they received urgent calls from colleagues to provide support. Instead, the pair relocated from the area of the crime in order to hunt down a Snorlax, as well as a rarer Togetic, in Niantic’s smash hit mobile game.

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