A member of the Detroit Police Board of Commissioners resigned in disgrace after being caught in the act with a prostitute in his car and then asking officers to “help him out.”
Bryan Ferguson, the DPBC’s District 1 representative and former chair of Detroit’s police oversight board, resigned on Thursday after word came that he had been spotted with the sex worker on Wednesday morning.
“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.”
Undercover narcotics agents from the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department spotted Ferguson committing a lewd act with a known sex worker around 7:15 a.m. on 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 the allegations are a “big misunderstanding” and said he “has nothing to hide.”
He claimed the woman, who he said he did not know, 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
Ferguson was issued a misdemeanor citation for indecent or obscene conduct involving a sex act with a prostitute, Bates said.
