*A man on the Detroit Police Board of Commissioners has stepped down after he was caught getting down with a prostitute in his car, then asked officers to “help him out.”
The Detroit Free Press reports that Bryan Ferguson, who represented District 1 for DPBC and was the former chair of Detroit’s police oversight board, announced his resignation Thursday, one day after news broke of his activity with the sex worker.
“It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the residents of Detroit in police oversight,” Ferguson told the Detroit Free Press in a statement. “After further consideration of the best interests of my family and the Board, I am choosing to resign as District 1 Police Commissioner effective immediately.”
Ferguson was caught by undercover narcotics agents from the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department, who spotted him in mid sex act around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday. Capt. Jason Bates said he asked deputies at the scene if they could “help him out” and told him his position.
“At that time, Mr. Bryan Ferguson stepped out, identified himself as a Detroit police commissioner,” Bates told Fox 2 Detroit. “A title or position doesn’t make them above the law.”
Ferguson told the Detroit Free Press that the whole thing is a “big misunderstanding” and that “has nothing to hide.” He said he didn’t know the woman, and that she hopped into his truck and “just pulled up right on me.”
“This is rough. This is rough to tell. Because now I’m going to have to have this conversation with my family,” Ferguson said.
Bates said that Ferguson was issued a misdemeanor citation for indecent or obscene conduct involving a sex act with a prostitute.
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