Brickbat: Prioritize What's Important

A California Court of Appeal has upheld the firing of two Los Angeles Police Department officers who ignored a call from a supervisor to respond to a robbery in progress at the Macy's at Crenshaw Mall. Instead of responding to the call, the two officers played Pokemon Go, catching a Snorlax and a Togetic. All told, video and audio from their patrol car show they spent 20 minutes pursuing the two creatures before heading to the robbery location. The court found that Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were fired for "willfully abdicating their duty to assist a commanding officer's response to a robbery in progress and playing a Pokemon mobile game while on duty."

Comments

[m4019597]

Misconduct was punished. This isn’t a brickbat.

[Michael P]

The mind-boggling part is that these losers not only took their case to court, but they appealed their loss. According to the appeals decision, they also lied to at least two other officers about the incident -- in spite of being recorded through an in-car monitoring system for the whole event.

[Union of Concerned Socks]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that their union took the case to court.

[markm23]

I learned long ago that a successful union is at least a little bit criminal, so I'm never surprised when a union protects criminal members.

But why oh why does any relatively honest government sign a contract with a criminal organization - especially to represent law enforcement?

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[m4019597]

hey, it’s better to collect a paycheck while in litigation or collect unemployment benefits. If they gave up, they would have had to get another job right away.

[sarcasmic]

A dearth of shame is a job requirement for policing.

[Jerryskids]

The incident happened in April of 2017. Nearly 5 years to declare that two cops were legally fired for playing a game rather than doing their jobs as they were ordered to do. Try that shit if you're not a member of a special class.

[SQRLSY One]

Well, they DID catch the Snorlax and a Togetic! Bad communications, crossed wires, as I understand, and so they thought that the Snorlax and the Togetic were the robbers! NOT their fault! Innocent mistakes were made!

[Fist of Etiquette]

...catching a Snorlax and a Togetic.

While mashing the STOP RESISTING button.

[MatthewSlyfield]

Did they kill the Snorlax's pet dog?

[Longtobefree]

Great story! Five years, who knows how much tax money, and the issue was not failing to go after crooks, but failing to follow orders.

Then again, it's LA.

[markm23]

The Supreme Court has ruled that police have no duty to go after crooks. OTOH, a police department is a paramilitary hierarchy, so you'd better obey orders.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

What's the problem? The Snorlax and Togetic were both subject to the same prosecution that the robbers would have been.

[IceTrey]

If they had shot the Snorlax in the back as it ran away they would have gotten a promotion.