The guy's just lucky the cops didn't get revenge by planting Weedle. Story out of Queens, New York:
He can’t tell a Pikachu from a Bulbasaur, but the city’s top cop wants to make sure his officers aren’t wasting their time hunting Pokémon instead of perps. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has launched an investigation into a report that four Queens cops were playing Pokémon Go while on duty.
“We’ll take a look at that as to whether there was inappropriate behavior on their part,” Bratton said after swearing in a group of new recruits at the NYPD Police Academy Thursday.
“That craze is one of the stupidest ones that I've seen,” said Bratton, who pronounced the popular franchise “Poke-man.”
On Wednesday morning, four cops in Far Rockaway were caught on video talking about the viral game, where people go out searching for Pokémon characters. The cops were by the Boardwalk and Beach Ninth St. — one of the game’s PokéStops — but an NYPD spokeswoman said they did not go there to hunt Pokémon. “They were on a directed patrol after we received several 911 calls about youths throwing rocks at cars,” the spokeswoman said.
Yet in a video taken by Zoli Honig, 27, the cops acted as if they were playing the game — and hunting the elusive digital critters.
The app may actually help the fractured relationship between cops and the community in light of recent police shootings, Honig said.
"Everyone was coming up and interacting with the cops and being friendly with them,” Honig said. "From my perspective, it is a great opportunity to connect with the community. The game was designed to bring people together and get them out there."
Honig apologized to the cops and their commanding officer in a Facebook post Thursday morning, saying he didn’t mean to portray them in a negative light. Cont.(Video)
Story from - New York Daily News
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