Firing upheld for police who played video game during holdup

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California appellate court has ruled that two Los Angeles police officers were properly fired for playing Pokémon Go instead of responding to a robbery. The Sacramento Bee says the court ruled last Friday that the LAPD was justified in firing Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell for misconduct in 2017. A video recording system in their car captured the officers discussing how to catch a Snorlax and other virtual characters while ignoring a report that robbers were at a Macy’s. The officers asked a court to overturn their firings, arguing the recordings were of private conversations. But a lower court and the appeals court disagreed.