A cop in small-town Georgia has resigned from the force after a viral video surfaced of him receiving oral sex from an unidentified woman while in uniform.
Video posted to social media by TikTok user Dillon Cole shows the unaware lawman, identified as Millen Police Officer Larry ‘Benjamin’ Thompson, engaging in the sex act with the unknown woman outdoors behind his service vehicle.
The damning footage was filmed by Cole from atop a telecommunications tower in Millen without the officer’s knowledge and posted to the social media site earlier this month.
‘Police caught on cam!!!’ wrote Cole, a telecommunications tower technician whose work commonly requires him to scale the looming structures – a pastime the workman frequently chronicles on social media.
The bird’s-eye footage of Thompson, however, posted by Cole on March 20 and re-shared twice after, saw markedly more attention than other videos on the worker’s account – collectively garnering more than 16million views as of Tuesday.
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Video posted to TikTok earlier this month shows the unaware officer, identified as Millen Police Officer Larry ‘Benjamin’ Thompson, engaging in the sex act with the unknown woman outdoors behind his service vehicle
The footage of Thompson, who has a record of misconduct, saw the officer come under scrutiny, leading him to apply for resign the day after it was posted
Thompson was identified by his superiors at Millen Police Department earlier this week, spurring the officer to resign ahead of a meeting with Police Chief Dwayne Herrington about the video, the department said.
Following the officer’s resignation, a record of his past misconduct – which includes an instance in 2019 that saw the cop crash into and killed a senior-aged driver while responding to a call, and another that saw him accidentally shoot a fellow officer in 2017 – has since come to light.
In 2019, local outlet WRDW-TV reported that Thompson T-boned a car while going 86 miles per hour in Millen, a small town of 3,500 roughly 75 miles northwest of Savannah, while rushing to a crime scene, killing a 76-year-old man driving the vehicle.
In 2017, Thompson shot another officer in the arm in what an incident report calls an ‘accidental discharge.’ According to the filing, Thompson claimed he was cleaning his gun when it got jammed and went off.
The damning footage was filmed by TikTok user Dillon Cole (pictured) from atop a telecommunications tower in the town of Millen without the former officer’s knowledge
The findings report asserted the weapon had no malfunctions that would cause an unintentional discharge, and classified Thompson as ‘negligent.’
In its report into the incident, the department’s criminal investigative division wrote: ‘Though it is referred to as an “accidental discharge,” essentially it is a “negligent discharge.”‘
Most recently, in 2021, a woman he had a prior relationship with told police he was harassing her.
Upon being questioned by department brass as to the allegations, Thompson admitted to running the woman’s tags to find her new address after she had moved, claiming he was trying to return some old items to her, a case summary reveals.
He was subsequently suspended for two days, the filing shows, and had to complete GBI security awareness training, ordered by the force.
Thompson was identified by his superiors at Millen Police Department earlier this week, spurring the officer to resign ahead of a meeting with Police Chief Dwayne Herrington about the video, the department said
What’s more, since Thompson did not face severe punishments for these investigations, records of the infractions don’t appear in the state’s Peace Officer Standards and Training Council’s (POST) records, which commonly display such infractions.
The only information listed in Thompson’s profiles is his work experience, a 2020 promotion – a year after the fatal accident – and his voluntary resignation on March 21, a day after the video was posted.
Infractions are only reported to the POST if the officer is terminated, resigns under investigation, or is suspended for more than 30 days.
‘Some agencies have a very low tolerance for some types of arrests, and some might have a much higher punishment,’ Georgia POST Deputy Executive Director Chris Harvey told WRDW Monday of the cop’s checkered record.
‘There really is no, is not standard for policies and policy enforcement across the state.’