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Someone's got a very bad memory:

Mark Towhey‏@towhey
Why on Earth would @BobKinnear113 & @ATULocal113 #ATU113 protect drunk drivers at the #TTC? Shame. @maddcanada #Toronto

Lenny Ease‏@isopper
@towhey @BobKinnear113 @ATUlocal113 @maddcanada come on Mark. You protected a drunk driving Rob Ford. You have no leg to stand on here

Mark Towhey ‏@towhey 36m36 minutes ago
@isopper That never happened. Not once. Not ever.

From Towhey's book:

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pattycakes said:
Someone's got a very bad memory
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From those quotes, Towhey didn't do anything to protect Rob Ford while drunk driving. He protected Chris's identity by making it an anonymous report, and the Toronto Police protected Rob Ford from charges.
 
rbt said:
From those quotes, Towhey didn't do anything to protect Rob Ford while drunk driving. He protected Chris's identity by making it an anonymous report, and the Toronto Police protected Rob Ford from charges.
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maybe Towhey never had a chance to wrestle keys away from a drunk/high Ford, but he did enough to protect him that he should probably keep his mouth shut (ahem, NOT calling CAS/911 when an impaired Ford called him in the midst of a fight in which a gun was mentioned and children were present).
 
rbt said:
From those quotes, Towhey didn't do anything to protect Rob Ford while drunk driving. He protected Chris's identity by making it an anonymous report, and the Toronto Police protected Rob Ford from charges.
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A sin of omission is still a sin.
 
According to the screencapped quote in pattycakes' post, it was the police coming to tell Towhey that Ford was driving drunk? So what's the point of calling 911? The police already knew and weren't doing shit. All that before they were even officially tailing him.
 
Kat_YYZ said:
According to the screencapped quote in pattycakes' post, it was the police coming to tell Towhey that Ford was driving drunk? So what's the point of calling 911? The police already knew and weren't doing shit. All that before they were even officially tailing him.
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That's the part that got me. Assuming there's at least a grain of truth in Towhey's book, the cops were covering for Ford for years. While we all suspected as much, to have it confirmed was an an eye opener. Who do you call? Not 911.
 
Ah yes, all that Ford support for the front line officers, or how much farther up did that support actually go? No wonder Robbie didn't "need" security beyond his volunteer driver Sandro.
 
animatronic said:
"Front line" support went all the way up to 23 Division unit commander.
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Hummm, I always thought perhaps Momma Diane's bf, the judge had some influence in keeping Robbie safe from charges.
Also wasn't one of Dougs daughters bf or spouse a policeman and so may have influenced Rob's protection from police . I remember seeing a video awhile back of Dougs daughter and her male companion the policeman at Costco where he was raging at someone while it was filmed. I remember thinking I would not want that man as a father of my grandchildren and the vile temper did not look like much stability for a police officer. Assumably the fellow officers would have a buddy code of ethics to ensure Rob in his mayor position or the Ford family was never to be harrased by the law in any form......the " untouchables" I guess.
 
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