The mayor of Toronto, Canada, has vehemently denied that the person caught on camera smoking crack cocaine is him.
Reports of a video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine was first published by Gawker.com late Thursday.
“Rob Ford, Toronto’s conservative mayor is a wild lunatic given to making bizarre racist pronouncements and randomly slapping refrigerator magnets on cars,” John Cook wrote on Gawker shortly before 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
“One reason for this is that he smokes crack cocaine,” Cook said. “I know this because I watched him do it, on a videotape. He was fucking hiiiigh. It’s for sale if you’ve got six figures.”
When asked about the video as he was leaving his office Friday morning to raise the Pride flag on the roof of City Hall to mark the International Day Against homophobia and Transphobia, Ford said: “These allegations are ridiculous. It is another story with respect to the Toronto Star going after me and that’s it. That’s all I’ve got to say for now.”
According to Gawker, someone recently contacted them to say there was a video of the mayor smoking crack, which he allegedly bought from drug dealers, who also sell drugs to other prominent people in Toronto including a hockey analyst, people on Ford’s staff and his brother.

The tipster also provided Gawker with a photo of Mayor Ford hanging out with 21-year-old Anthony Smith, who was killed two months ago in a gang related incident outside a Toronto night club.
When local Toronto news outlets questioned Ford’s lawyer about the photo and the video, Dennis Morris said “First of all, I’ve spoken to the mayor yesterday and secondly, he denies such allegation.
Morris went on to say that he is “trying to see whether or not such a video exists and whether or not any video has been doctored or altered. I think we’re just having to go step-by-step.”
The person who owns the video is said to be looking for a buyer.
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