But while he spoke about “snitches” and the importance of not attracting attention, he told his friend that if you were smart about it and God was on your side, you could stay two steps ahead of the police and security agencies.
“You shouldn’t fear them,” he said to his friend. “They’re stupid as a rock, you know? They don’t know too much. They’re not very intelligent themselves, you know? When you think about it they are very stupid, you know?”
As it turned out, the “friend” he confided all this to was an undercover Toronto police officer and their conversations were being recorded with the authorization of the courts. A month after his burst of bravado, he was arrested.