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According to newly released court documents, back in 2017 two officers named Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were working on patrol in Los Angeles. On that day, Captain Darnell Davenport, the patrol commanding officer for their division, responded to a radio call about an incident at a Macy’s and called for backup. At the time, he noticed “a police car tucked back in an alley just feet away,” but he assumed it was just a traffic unit or from another division because it failed to respond to the radio call and then drove away. As Davenport responded, patrol supervisor Sergeant Jose Gomez saw from the commander’s board that Lozano and Mitchell’s car was located near the scene, but when he requested that they respond twice, he received no response from them. When Gomez later asked the officers if they heard the backup call, Mitchell said he didn’t, and Lozano said he had heard Davenport radio to confirm he was responding to the robbery but did not hear the call for back-up either because of loud music outside. But when Gomez reviewed their units dash-cam recording, they revealed that Lozano and Mitchell’s car WAS the one Davenport had seen. And not only had they received the radio call, “they discussed the call and whether they should assist Captain Davenport” but “decided not to respond.” And as for why these two cops just up and decided not to do their jobs: it’s because they were playing Pokémon Go. Right, according to the filings, just minutes after the officers decided not to respond to the call, “Mitchell alerted Lozano that ‘Snorlax’ ‘just popped up.’” With the documents going on to say that for “approximately the next 20 minutes,” the dash-cam captured the officers: “discussing Pokémon as they drove to different locations where the virtual creatures apparently appeared on their mobile phones. On their way to the Snorlax location, Officer Mitchell alerted Officer Lozano that ‘a Togetic just popped up.’” And continuing, “After Mitchell apparently caught the Snorlax— exclaiming, ‘Got ‘em’—petitioners agreed to ‘[g]o get the Togetic’ and drove off.” After Mitchell caught the Togetic, he can be heard saying, “‘The[ ] guys are going to be so jealous,’” and later telling Lozano, “‘I got you a new Pokémon today, dude.’”Right, so it may come as a shock to you, but after all of that, Lozano and Mitchell were fired — though they denied that they were playing the game, claiming they were only “having a conversation about Pokémon Go.”Lozano and Mitchell appealed their termination, arguing that the city had violated the law by using the dash-cam recording as evidence and by denying them specific protections but an appeals court upheld it on Friday – which is why we’re just now seeing these court documents. But that ruling may not be the end of this saga, because a lawyer for the two officers told The Washington Post that they are “considering what, if any, actions they might take in the future, including appealing to the state Supreme Court.” So keep an eye out for The People vs. Pokemon Go in the next SCOTUS session…
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