If Mayor Rob Ford thought he’d escaped the taint of a video allegedly showing him smoking crack cocaine he learned otherwise this past week. This scandal is far from done, especially with news Friday that the man who tried to sell that video to two Toronto Star reporters was arrested and later stabbed in prison. Questions simmer, and the public would be best-served if both Ford and the police come clean with what they know.

Mohamed Siad, 27, was the individual who met with journalists Robyn Doolittle and Kevin Donovan in a parking lot in May and played for them, three times, a video allegedly showing Ford sucking on a glass pipe and muttering racist and homophobic slurs.

Siad was scooped up by police a month later, in a series of raids, dubbed Project Traveller, targeting a north Etobicoke apartment complex that was reportedly a hive of gang activity.

He was charged with a long list of offences, including cocaine and gun trafficking, conspiracy and participating in a criminal gang. And he was stabbed a few days later in the Don Jail. Siad is being kept in segregation, presumably for his own safety.

And the alleged video? Police Chief Bill Blair is refusing to confirm or deny that officers have obtained a copy of it. He’s refusing to say if Project Traveller raids unearthed connections to the Ford administration. And he’s refusing to confirm or deny that there’s an investigation into the conduct of people in Ford’s office.

Blair claims his silence is necessary for legal reasons. But there’s ample legal opinion indicating that this is not the case. The public is deliberately being kept in the dark on the activities of Toronto’s mayor.

Ford, for his part, insists he doesn’t smoke crack cocaine and that the video doesn’t exist. But police surveillance in Project Traveller reportedly found gang members discussing the video among themselves. And Ford seemed to know the exact address where the video was made once the scandal broke.

The stabbing of Siad is especially troubling given the violence that seems to permeate this scandal. One man in a photo showing Ford partying with gang members was later shot to death. Another man in the picture was wounded. Then Siad was stabbed, with the Toronto Sun reporting the jailhouse attack was in retribution for attempting to sell the alleged crack cocaine video.

No, Mayor Ford, this affair is far from over. The only way to put it behind you is to be straight with Torontonians and tell the truth.