During his four-year term drew media coverage from incidents of public drunkenness and driving while under the influence of alcohol, urinating on the grounds of an elementary school in broad daylight, numerous homophobic statements and actions, a drunken imitation of a Jamaican accent, making sexually obscene remarks, spreading a conspiracy theory that "Oriental" people were secretly plotting to take over the country, tackling a female councillor to the ground at City Hall, and threatening to murder his own mother-in-law on Christmas Day. Ford drew global media attention after it became public that he smoked crack-cocaine. Ultimately, City Council suspended his powers and Ford entered into drug rehab.