Enraged Toronto mayor vows 'murder' in new video

Doug Stanglin | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Toronto Mayor Rob Ford vows 'murder' in new video Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who has acknowledged smoking crack cocaine in a secretly taped video, has been caught on a second video, this time staggering around an unidentified living room in a rage, threatening to kill an unnamed person.

Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who has acknowledged smoking crack cocaine in a secretly taped video, has been caught on a second video, this time staggering around an unidentified living room in a rage, threatening to kill an unnamed person.

The 44-year-old mayor of Canada's largest city is shown enraged, gesticulating as he stumbles around the room.

"I'm gonna kill that (expletive) guy. I'm telling you, it's first-degree murder," the visibly agitated mayor shouts.

The target of his wrath is unstated, but at one point Ford says, "I need (expletive) 10 minutes to make sure he's dead."

At one point in the video, he says, "No hold barred brother. He dies or I die."

In a hastily called meeting with reporters outside his office after the new video surfaced, Ford said that he was "extremely, extremely inebriated" in the video, but did not provide any context nor indicate the target of his wrath.

"It's extremely embarrassing," Ford said. "The whole world is going to see it."

He said that he made mistakes and "all I can do is reassure the people. I don't know what to say."

"When you are in that state … I hope none of you have ever or will ever be in that state," he added.

The video -- which contains a great deal of profanity -- appears on the web site of The Toronto Star, which broke the story of the first controversial video. The Star says it paid to obtain the video.

The Toronto Sun has also posted two short clips from the video, but says it did not pay for the rights.

The original video purported to show an inebriated Ford smoking crack cocaine. After months of evading the question, Ford acknowledged for the first time this week that he had smoked crack "probably a year ago" when he was in a "drunken stupor."

Ford, who took office in December 2010, has refused to step aside despite immense pressure. He says it will be up to voters to decide his political fate when he is up for re-election in 2014.

The Sun quotes "a source close to the mayor" as saying that it "looks a lot worse than it really is" since "he sometimes goes off on tangents" and a few minutes later everything is fine.

Last week, Police Chief Bill Blair announced that investigators had recovered two videos, including the notorious crack cocaine tape. The contents of the second video obtained by the police is unknown.

Police have not released either video, saying they are evidence for use in an extortion case against the mayor's "close friend" Alexander Lisi.

A reporter from The Star and from the U.S. website, Gawker, reported separately several months ago that they had been shown the original video by people associated with Toronto drug gangs. Both organizations declined to pay for the video.

Contributing: Associated Press