“There has been a torrent of really negative comments towards me from people who believe that I lied and that I fabricated the story or fabricated my emotions.
“Attacks towards me, attacks towards my disability, saying that because of making a video I deserved a disability and I did not even deserve to have one leg.
“The second reason that I am removing the video is because I’ve been receiving increasingly aggressive emails from the club,” he said in a 10-minute video titled “Why I removed blog about crutches being taken” uploaded on Monday.
Two weeks ago, Sundquist was down in Malaysia to deliver a motivational talk at the 1Malaysia For Youth (iM4U) Reach Out programme.
On the same day, he had gone to the Zouk Club in Jalan Tun Razak with his wife, Ashley.
In a six-minute video the next day, Sundquist claimed that two bouncers removed his forearm crutches while he was dancing on a podium, which unknown to him, was usually reserved for women.
He claimed two security guards came up and pulled his crutches away, leaving him standing on just one foot.
The club later issued a statement saying Sundquist was carefully escorted down by the bouncers and they had followed normal procedures as the podium was for women although there was no notice of it there.
Following the furore from netizens, the club invited members of the press for a private viewing of the CCTV footage. The reporters then agreed the bouncers were not hostile and had guided Sundquist down the platform.
To this, Sundquist said he “unequivocally” stood by his version of events in the first video. He said he asked the club to send him the CCTV footage, but it did not.
“But they showed it to a (FMT’s The Level) journalist and he agrees that the crutches were removed by the bouncers in the club. In fact, in the club’s own press statement, they do not dispute that the crutches were removed.”
In a spirit of reconciliation, Sundquist said the bouncers could have removed his crutches after it appeared to “look unsafe” although he could safely balance on one leg.
“But I can understand that if you were a bouncer who had never seen a person dancing on one leg, that you might look at me and think ‘that guy’s off balance, I need to help him” or “he is in an unsafe situation.”
Sundquist said he was prepared to receive further brickbats for his latest video explaining the removal of his earlier video entitled “Security gang stole my crutches”.
“Now I realise even in doing this, they are still gonna be plenty of negative comments. My hope is that over time, some of that anger dissipates.”
He said his intention was never to harm the club and hoped people would not direct negative comments towards the club. He hoped the club employees would put this matter behind them and move forward “with positive energy”.
“I want to be a person who creates positive energy in the world, not one who destroys or who hurts or harms.”
Sundquist, who was part of the United States Paralympic Ski Team in 2006, found his future wife, Ashley Nolan, in a club in Washington. She was impressed with his dancing, despite he being an amputee.
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