Well, they were slacking during their shifts.
Two former police officers, Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were fired in 2017 for playing Pokemon Go during a robbery. While this issue was a few years ago, an appeal was filed by the ex-officers that challenged their termination.
According to the two, the city broke the law when it used in-car video footage as evidence. In addition, they claimed that they were denied protection under the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act. A California appeals court, after processing the appeal, upheld the termination. "A board of rights found petitioners guilty on multiple counts of misconduct, based in part on a digital in-car video system (DICVS) recording that captured petitioners willfully abdicating their duty to assist a commanding officer's response to a robbery in progress and playing a Pokémon mobile phone game while on duty," a passage from the decision read.
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