TORONTO, (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who pledged last year to go clean after a crack-smoking scandal, admitted yesterday he had been drinking again after a video surfaced of him ranting about police surveillance in a mock Jamaican accent in a suburban eatery.
Asked by reporters outside his office at city hall if he had been drinking, Ford said, “Yes I was … Little bit, yeah.”
In the video, shot from a low angle and posted on YouTube yesterday, Ford stands by the counter of a fast-food restaurant and rants about surveillance that police carried out last year during a drug investigation.
“Chase me around five months, man,” he said, before using a Jamaican profanity. In much of the approximately 1 minute-long video, Ford speaks in a Jamaican accent. “He’s hiding here, I’m hiding here. You know how much money that costs?”
Asked about the video, shot at the Steak Queen restaurant in the western suburb of Etobicoke, Ford admitted it was filmed after he was out socializing on Monday night.
