Mayor in screaming confrontation with reporters

A huge release of documents — some 300 pages – by a provincial court reveal an elaborate police investigation apparently inspired by stories about a video which was said to show Mayor Ford smoking crack cocaine. Many documents and pictures reveal police stake out observations of meetings between Mr. Ford and Alexander Lisi in service stations in which packages or bags were exchanged between the two. In some instances, the two friends did not acknowledge each other even though they were in the same station. Police recorded more than 100 occasions when the two men met. Mr. Ford left his Etobicoke home this morning in a fury, and it may fairly be said, behaved in a frightening and distracted fashion. He screamed at reporters to get off the property. He then drove away in his Cadillac Escalade, a vehicle which is frequently seen and mentioned in police surveillance material released this morning. At City Hall, Shelley Carroll (Ward 33) has called for the mayor’s resignation. Ms Carroll says the mayor “clearly suffers from some form of drug abuse”. The unfolding story is on television Thursday morning. Police Chief Blair had scheduled a news conference for about 11.30 a.m.  The continuing revelations on TV describe no criminality but consist of enormous detail of interaction between the mayor and Mr. Lisi. The meetings and phone calls between the two and calls made by Mr. Lisi to a person trying to sell the alleged video of Mr. Ford, are evidence of furtive activity which would raise the curiosity of any reasonable citizen. In one instance, the mayor is said to have stayed in a service station washroom for an hour. The Premier, Kathleen Wynne, was questioned about these events and said she had no comment. It was a police matter, she said.