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Smirking TikToker explains why he felt nothing while filming Vancouver stabbing

'(The stabbing) doesn’t faze me too much'

Alex Bodger, who filmed a man dying outside a Vancouver Starbucks store over the weekend, explained what was going on in his mind after witnessing the incident.
Alex Bodger, who filmed a man dying outside a Vancouver Starbucks store over the weekend, explained what was going on in his mind after witnessing the incident. Photo by BrownBoiiTV /Twitter

On Sunday, Paul Stanley Schmidt, 37, was stabbed to death outside a Vancouver Starbucks

Around the same time, a Canadian TikToker watched it all unfold – and filmed the entire disgusting incident with a smirk on his face the whole time.

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Alex Bodger, who goes by Gora Pakora on TikTok, recorded the stabbing and took a selfie next to the victim’s body and filmed himself smiling in disbelief.

“This motherf— just died, bro. He just died, bro, holy f—.”

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Bodger was interviewed by Global News as a “witness” to the incident.

“It’s not something you think you would see walking down the street in Vancouver on a Sunday,” he told the outlet. “Every time I think about the situation I get this feeling in my chest which is pure fear.”

But according to one tweet, he returned to the crime scene the following morning to have a smoke, so not that fearful – unless the fear was not getting enough likes and being lambasted for his insensitive videos and photos.

Bodger has since released a video explaining what was going through his mind during the stabbing, that took the life of a beloved family man who simply wanted the suspect to not vape near his young daughter.

In it, he explains that he thought it was a street fight so naturally, he had to “run down there and start videotaping.”

*NOTE: NSFW. Explicit language throughout.

He mistook Schmidt’s blood from his stab wound for a bloody nose, claiming “my brain wasn’t allowing me to believe what just happened.”

Bodger went on to say he was in “so much shock” and was afraid the murderer was going to come after him next before he went on to explain why he had the smile on his face in the clip that has since gone viral.

“That’s how I always am in uncomfortable situations, I put a little bit of a smile on my face you know, and like, I’m sorry for the people that it pissed off,” he said in his non-apology.

But then every word Bodger uttered went up in smoke.

Witness who filmed and took selfies during Vancouver stabbing smoking outside Starbucks day after incident.
Witness who filmed and took selfies during Vancouver stabbing smoking outside Starbucks day after incident. (Twitter) Twitter

“Yeah, this s— [the stabbing], it doesn’t faze me too much,” he said. “I’ll just say human life to me, the way I look at it, if I don’t know you, it’s meaningless, it’s meaningless. I’m just keeping it straight up.”

He added: “But yeah, he’s dead, what can we do now?”

His remarks sparked outrage from many on Twitter, with people calling Bodger “human garbage,” a “bonafide idiot,” “disgusting” and “weak.”

One person added: “He’s also FOS (full of s—) bc (because) we (sic) was narrating the stabbing as it was happening. He knew it was more than a fight and he chose to record than help.”

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