Late on a Saturday night in April, after a Maple Leafs game, Mayor Rob Ford brought guests to city hall: two men he had just met on the street.

Late on a Saturdaynight in March, on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, Ford jumped in a taxi with four other men he had just met outside the building.

Eyewitnesses have told the Star that both nights ended with Ford travelling to Muzik nightclub and using drugs.

City hall security video released on Friday does not show the mayor in a state of visible intoxication. It does offer more evidence of the perils of his willingness to trust strangers.

Footage from April 5 shows Ford walking in the city hall parking garage with two men security guards did not recognize. Soon after they entered the building itself, one of the men tried to photograph or film the mayor while his back was turned.

Footage from March 15 shows that the night would probably have gone unnoticed by the media if Ford had not attempted to leave the scene with a group of people who encountered him on the sidewalk.

The footage was obtained via freedom of information requests. Those requests were prompted by a different video, broadcast by CTV, which captured Ford swearing while appearing intoxicated on the sidewalk in front of city hall.

That video, it turns out, was filmed only after Ford made an effort to depart Nathan Phillips Square — by cramming into a taxi with four men who had just encountered him. The driver refused to take all of them, and they got out to find another cab, the city hall footage shows. Ford was then caught on camera by a passer-by.

The footage is linked to written security reports that were previously released by the city.

In those reports, guards said Ford slurred his words, appeared intoxicated, and uttered a threat on the night of March 15. Ford, they said, pledged to “get” the guard who had reported his intoxication and belligerence on St. Patrick’s Day two years prior.

The footage does not include audio, and it does not show Ford’s exchange with the guards at their desk. It does corroborate their claim that Ford could not figure out how to open the front door, which can only be opened at night with the push of a button, and that he expressed irritation to the guard who came to assist him — for failing to inform him of the existence of the button while they were speaking earlier.

Ford became enraged later that night, sources told the Star, when pop star Justin Bieber encountered him at Muzik and made a joke about his crack cocaine use.

Ford was warned by Air Canada Centre security at the Leafs game on April 5. After the game, he ditched his companion, Councillor Frank Di Giorgio, with whom he was supposed to attend an Italian community event, and took a taxi to city hall with the men he had met in the throng outside the arena.

Ford has now taken a leave of absence to get treatment for what he says is a problem with alcohol. He has not explained what he was doing at the darkened, near-empty building on either night.

“I can do whatever I want. It’s my office,” he told reporters in April.

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The footage shows that his Cadillac Escalade was picked up both nights by his nephew Michael Ford.

With files from Kevin Donovan