A new video of disgraced Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has emerged showing him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent.
In the video - one of two new ones that have been posted on YouTube - Ford is shown in a fast food restaurant rambling and talking about police surveillance and calling police chief Bill Blair a derogatory name.
Ford, who said in November that he quit drinking, said outside his office yesterday that he drank on Monday night “a little bit” and acknowledged it was him in the video.
“I was with some friends and what I do in my personal life with my personal friends, that’s up to me,” Ford said. “It really has nothing to do with you guys.”
Ford said he did not think the language he used was offensive or discriminatory.
“It’s how I speak with some of my friends,” he said.
Ford acknowledged last year that he smoked crack “in one of my drunken stupors” after police said they obtained a copy of a tape that appears to show him smoking the drug.
The City Council stripped Ford of most of his powers but lacked the authority to force him out because he was not convicted of a crime.
