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The bitter feud between the Ford brothers and Toronto’s police chief reached remarkable new heights Thursday as the mayor dared Bill Blair to put up or shut up: “If he’s going to arrest me, arrest me. I have done nothing wrong.”

Rob Ford made the incendiary remarks during a dramatic press conference at City Hall where the mayor and his brother Doug upped their attacks on the police chief, accusing Blair of ‘breaking the law” and working for top mayoral rival John Tory.

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“He’s embarrassed? How about him embarrassing my family, my kids, my community, my friends. Following me around for five months, spending millions of dollars using taxpayers money, coming in my office, trying to politicize things,” Mayor Ford said Thursday afternoon. “If there’s anyone who owes an apology, he owes an apology to the taxpayers.”

The Fords have been launching figurative grenades at Chief Blair ever since he revealed last October that police had recovered a video apparently depicting the mayor smoking from a crack pipe. The chief took the extraordinary step then of telling reporters he was “disappointed,” triggering claims from the Ford brothers that he was orchestrating a political vendetta against them. Councillor Ford filed a complaint with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, which is now investigating any possible misconduct on the part of Chief Blair.