Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair is setting the record straight on what Mayor Rob Ford said and didn't say to a 911 dispatcher earlier this week.
Blair released a statement late Friday afternoon, saying Ford never identified himself in an intimidating way or referred to a dispatcher as a "B –ch" when he called police on a CBC camera crew that showed up at his home Monday morning.
Blair's comments come in the wake of a CBC report that cited several anonymous sources, who suggested the mayor referred to himself as "Rob F----ing Ford."
"While it is not my practice to comment on 911 calls made to TPS emergency operators, serious allegations have been made about what was said during a series of three calls involving the mayor, and whether there was any abuse of the 911 service," Blair said. "The content of those conversations has been misrepresented by what are claimed to be ‘several anonymous sources,' presumably from within the TPS, in which case I have to set the record straight. I have listened to the three emergency calls. The mayor did not use the word "b----es," attributed to him by those ‘several anonymous sources.' The mayor did not describe himself as the original account claimed."
Ford was ambushed by a CBC camera crew from the satirical news show "This Hour Has 22 Minutes," while he was standing on his driveway.
Video footage from CBC shows the mayor smiling but immediately asking the crew if he could step into his car. He asked the crew several times and then finally walked back into his home frustrated to call police for help.
Ford had said his daughter was watching the confrontation and he was concerned for her. He also said he had never seen the show and didn't know who the actors were.
"Put yourself in my shoes," Ford told reporters Thursday afternoon.
