In one of the first mainstream adoptions of augmented reality, players would look for round-eyed "pocket monsters" that would appear in the real world, if viewed on a smartphone screen. Pokemon Go took the mid-2010s by storm, with millions around the world glued to their smartphones in the hunt for fantastical creatures. The pair insisted in disciplinary hearings that they had merely been discussing the game, and challenged Los Angeles city's dismissal.Ĭalifornia's court of appeal, however, did not believe their explanations, and upheld their firings. This thing is fighting the crap out of me," Mitchell said, according to the documents, which were published last week.īoth men were charged with multiple counts of misconduct, and admitted failing to respond to the robbery call during the incident in April 2017, but denied they had been playing Pokemon Go. The Los Angeles police officers snagged the Snorlax and then turned their attention to a Togetic - which proved to be a little tricky to subdue.
"For approximately the next 20 minutes, the (recording) captured petitioners discussing Pokemon as they drove to different locations where the virtual creatures apparently appeared on their mobile phones." "Officer Mitchell alerted Lozano that 'Snorlax' 'just popped up'," legal documents relating to their dismissal show.
In-car recording of their conversation revealed that they had heard the call for help at the Los Angeles department store, but decided instead to drive off. Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell cruised the streets searching for fantastic creatures in the augmented reality smartphone game, documents show, bagging a relatively rare Snorlax, as well as a difficult-to-trap Togetic - but no criminals. LOS ANGELES: Two US police officers who went off to hunt for Pokemon instead of responding to a robbery have been fired. Pokemon Go took much of the world by storm in the mid-2010s, but cost two Los Angeles police officers their jobs after they went off hunting creatures instead of respeonding to a robbery.
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