this is a good summary of the violence (the silenced?) around rob ford, that we know of so far...
"Numerous people with connections to the Rob Ford crack cocaine allegations have been hurt and one man was murdered, but none of the incidents of violence have been definitively tied to the Mayor:
*March 22, 2012 - Scott MacIntyre, then 45, suffered a broken leg at the hands of another inmate about nine weeks after he confronted the mayor in his home about an alleged debt and threatened to kill him. No charges have been laid in the jailhouse assault.
*March 28, 2013 - Anthony Smith, 21, is killed and Muhammad Khattak, 19, wounded in a shooting on King St. W. Both men were pictured with a third man, Monir Kassim, 20, in a now notorious photo with the mayor that surfaced May 16 when a story broke about reporters allegedly seeing Rob Ford in a video smoking what was beleived to be crack cocaine in a pipe.
Khattak and Kassim were both also arrested during Project Traveller, a massive gun and drug investigation revealed by Toronto Police on June 13. The operation targetted the Dixon City Bloods, an Etobicoke street gang that Ford has been accused of socializing with and whose members were believed to have had the alleged crack video on a cellphone at one point.
Nisar Hashimi, 23, was arrested in Toronto on a first-degree murder rap in Smith's killing but the charge was later downgraded to manslaughter. He has since pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years.
Hanad Mohamed, 23, was arrested in Fort McMurray, Alta., on first-degree murder for Smith's shooting, but his charged was reduced to accessory after the fact.
*May 21 - a man forced his way into a home on Windsor Dr., the house where Ford was photographed with murder victim Anthony Smith, and assaulted a man and his girlfriend with a steel pipe. The male victim was identified as Fabio Basso, 45, an old high school pal of the mayor.
It's alleged the attacker had been to the home several times since the alleged crack video story broke looking for a young man who lived in the highrises of nearby Dixon Village.
Also on May 21, a man in his 20s was shot in his leg on the 17th floor of a highrise at Dixon Rd. and Kipling Ave., outside an apartment where it's believed the alleged crack video was once stored. The building was also targetted by cops in pre-dawn raids as part of Project Traveller.
*June 6 - Hanad Hussein, 25, fell from a six-storey apartment in Fort McMurray, Alta., the same apartment where Hanad Mohamed had lived. The Toronto man survived the fall, which happened two weeks after Mohamed's arrest in Smith's murder.
Hussein's family claims he was thrown from the balcony and that his wallet and iPhone disappeared.
*Aug. 2, the Toronto Sun learns Mohamed Siad, 27, was stabbed while in custody when other gang members wrongly blamed him for the heat coming down on them in Project Traveller because of the alleged crack video.. But Siad hasn't stopped shopping the video around since being swept up on 25 charges as part of the Project Traveller investigation -- he tried to use it as a get-out-of-jail- free card. He was later stabbed by a fellow inmate. No charges have been laid.
- Compiled by Chris Doucette "
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