“A man who shot a video of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski being zapped by an RCMP Taser before he died received a hero’s welcome at a memorial rally in Vancouver.
“More than 1,000 people chanted ‘Thank you, Paul,’ as Paul Pritchard spoke to the rally yesterday, about how he came to record the last moments of Dziekanski’s life.
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“Pritchard said that although he’s received tremendous support for fighting to get the video back from the RCMP and release it to the public, there has been some negative reaction.
“‘Some people have told me that I’m an embarrassment to Canada,’ he said. “But I’ll tell you what, being there that night I’m embarrassed and I’m ashamed of what happened.”
