Oscar Pistorius: Blade Runner’s verdict

Finally, it ended. The trial that captivated the world. The triumphant athlete, a hero who always seemed to overcome the chances. However, this challenge was even greater, since Oscar Pistorius was accused of murder.

In the Praetorian packing, South Africa, the court of Judge Thokozile Masipa, the “blade corridor” faced his destiny.

Masipa told Pistorius guilty of guilty homicide.

In terms of lay people, involuntary homicide. According to the judge, Oscar Pistorius did not intentionally killed Reeva Steenkamp, but acted negligently when firing four shots through the door of his bathroom. His parents, June and Barry Steenkamp, seemed stunned, since their friends cried. Pistorius, who had cried like a child during the trial, now silent and stoic.

The reduced guilt verdict swept the crowd. Pistorius made its way in the center of the saga that has become the soap opera of the real life of a nation.

The uncle of Pistorius, Arnold Pistorius, gave the initial reaction of the family:

“This is a great load of our shoulders and Oscar,” he said. “We would really like to show our deep, how grateful we are from Judge Masipa, who has found Oscar not guilty of murder … he will not bring Reeva back, but our hearts still go out for his family and friends.”

Steenkamp’s mother spoke in a television interview. “Surprised. Disappointed, you know, your heart falls because you just want the truth and goes in the wrong direction. This is how you feel,” he said.

Throughout the tense two -day verdict process, Pistorius was emotional, it seemed overwhelmed and destroyed.

“The defendant was a very poor witness, an evasive witness,” said Masipa.

What was clear: the judge found the version of the most plausible Oscar events than that presented by the Prosecutor’s Office.

“The defendant was clearly not sincere with the court when he said he had no intention of shooting anyone, since he had an armed firearm in his hand,” said Masipa. “The State has clearly demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of premeditated murder.”

The countdown to justice was long and deliberate.

“Reeva no longer has a life for what you have done. He is no longer alive,” said prosecutor Gerrie Nel to the court during the trial.

Oscar Pistorius, the legendary broker of the blade whose athletic achievements captivated millions, was accused of killing his beautiful girlfriend, a woman with talent and balance to match his dreams.

Reeva Steenkamp, a model of reality and star model, was shot dead on Valentine’s Day 2013; Four shots through the bathroom door of Oscar Pistorius.

“I didn’t shoot Reeva,” said a Pistorius sob during his trial.

Throughout the 41 days of testimony, Pistorius got rid of, like Nel, nicknamed “El Bulldog”, it was relentless.

“His intention when he shot those shots was to kill a human being,” he told the Court.

Nel hit his version of the events home: this was not an act of panic, it was murder.

“He was obsessed with his anxiety and vulnerability in this intruder,” said Pistorius defense lawyer Barry Roux. “I was obsessed with that.”

Vulnerable in the darkness of the night without his prosthetic legs was how Roux described Pistorius. Convinced that a stranger was at home, the Olympic panic.

“The trial has been presumed for everyone in South Africa,” Jen said, a South African interview program and friend of Pistorius. He found Oscar’s idea he was an unimaginable murderer.

“It’s hard because I’m with friends and they disagree with me,” he said.

His was not alone. Day after day, while attending the Court in Pretoria, it was evident for many that Pistorius, 27, remained a national treasure, a hero and inspiration.

When this marathon ended, Pistorius was only one of the 37 witnesses. But it was the Olympic who Gerry Nel led to the mat:

Oscar Pistorius: I don’t have to look at an image. I was there!

Gerrie Nell: You killed a person, that’s what you did, right?

Oscar PistoriuS: I made a mistake.

Gerrie Nell: You killed Reeva Steenkamp, that’s what you did!

He would fall to Masipa, a veteran judge, to sail through everything. In the South African system, she is a judge and jury. A son of apartheid, Judge Masipa became a social worker, then a crime reporter, lawyer and now judges in the Superior Court.

At the end of the trial an extraordinary development arrived. The testimony stopped the cold when the Prosecutor’s Office requested a psychological evaluation of Pistorius. If mentally incompetent is governed, the trial would have ended.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Alexander Sasha Bardey monitored the case.

“The exam results indicated … that – Oscar Pistorius did not suffer a mental illness or illness,” he said.

Game on. As the trial and drama increased, the pressure was built. The superstar, which seemed indestructible, seemed ready to explode. On bail, he got into a match in a Johannesburg nightclub. Pistorius supporters worried that the man who was a force of life could try to commit suicide.

Reeva Steenkamp was talented, beautiful and only 29 years old.

“I think the way you go … and you make your exit is so important. You have had an impact in a positive way, or in a negative way,” said Steenkamp on “Treless Island of Tropika”, the reality show in which he appeared. “But keep the class and always be faithful to yourself. And I will miss them all. And I love you very much, a lot (blow a kiss on the camera).

With the extraordinary verdict on Friday, the reaction was rapid and passionate.

“I am completely amazed. Ubbic,” said Dr. David Klatzow, Forensic researcher, the News themezone correspondent, Debora Patta. “Because it is very different from what I thought it was an open problem.”

“How did you feel emotionally? Oscar is your friend,” Patta Jen his.

“Well, from that point of view, I felt relieved by Oscar. This was definitely the best of Oscar cases,” he replied.

At the last minute of Friday, new photos of a stunned and bloody peistorius of the night of the shooting were published.

The verdict is in. Oscar Pistorius is released on bail until the sentence, which will come in approximately one month. The legal battle is far from finishing.

Oscar and Reeva

Reeva Steenkamp and Oscar Pistorius seemed that the type of couple dreams are made.

“People saw them and thought: ‘Wow, they are so attractive,” said Vanity Fair writer Mark Seal. “They were like stars.”

Seal, a “48 hours” consultant, has written about the case.

“I mean, it was the story of a man who overcame the incredible disability … and then met an incredibly talented and beautiful woman. He fell in love. And then he hit the tragedy,” said his friend Jen his.

The tragedy is so deep because Oscar Pistorius ran against the wind of his birth in 1986. He ran so fast, he came so far. Pistorius was born without bones of fibula.

“When I was 11 months old I had both legs amputated. And then, when I was 13 months old, I got my first pair of legs to walk,” Pistorius told Sky TV in a 2004 interview.

His “Legs to walk” would soon take Oscar throughout the world. But the inspiration began with his mother, Sheila, who established the tone that allowed his son to become a champion. Years later, Pistorius shared the memory with Jay Leno.

“My mother has just told me in the morning, you know, ‘Oscar, you put yourself in your prosthetic legs. The last want to listen to it. You know there is no disabilities in our family,” he said.

“His mother … he told him that the real loser is not the one who crosses the finish line at the end, the real loser is the one who sits aside and does not try to compete,” said Seal.

“He got sick and died suddenly,” Mike Azzie said.

With his mother he left and separated from his father, Oscar, 15, turned to Azzie as father figure.

“He has always been a wonderful boy,” said Azzie.

For Oscar, he is Uncle Mike.

“There is never a conversation that has ended without one of the parties that says: ‘I love you,” said Azzie.

Almost 9,000 miles from South Africa, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, “48 hours” found a man who knew Oscar Pistorius before becoming an international icon.

“I was about 14 years old … and I was jumping on obstacles,” said Francois Van Der Watt to the “48 -hour” correspondent, Peter van Sant. “I thought ‘Why would you do that?’ And he was alone, ‘Isn’t there why not?’ “

Van Der Watt, at that time living in South Africa, felt that the determined child needed better than his battered legs.

“He carried what we call exoskeletal prostheses, which are practically wood prostheses,” he explained. “Very primitive.”

Together, Van Der Watt and Pistorius decided to give Oscar their legs to match their heart, the wings he needed to fly. They called them “blades.”

“I wanted to be fast. I wanted to be a runner,” said Van Der Watt.

Oscar Pistorius took off.

“God had a plan when he gave me these legs, and at the end of the day I am happy. I do not think I would be doing athletics if it was capable.

The “Blade Runner” was born. The world had never seen anything like that.

“It became half a man, half a machine, with the march of a cat,” said Seal. “And he could run in these blades, and not just run, but win.”

Pistorius would win races worldwide and became an iconic symbol for his country, and for the disabled community everywhere.

“He set fire to the track. It was the most surprising,” Samkelo Radbe told Patta.

Radbe, who lost his hands in an electrical accident, was Pistorius teammate.

“It was never a star in the team, but it was just one of us,” he said. “It’s just one of teammates.”

London 2012 marked achievements like no other.

Oscar Pistorius poses with his gold medal during the ceremony after winning the final of the 400 -meter male meters category at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

“This era history,” said Van Sant.

“That’s all, yes,” said Van Der Watt.

Pistorius and Radbe competed in the Paralympic Games for the disabled and won the gold.

“We were all hugging,” said Radebe de la Victoria.

There was also a very different type of victory.

“This day goes to the history of equality for disabled people,” Pistorius said at a press conference.

The boy without legs won the right to compete in the Olympic Games against athletes with the best body in the world.

“When it is on that athletics track at the Olim Games Picos … that says everything. Says’ I’m here. I have overcome these probabilities, “said Seal.

Although he did not win an Olympic medal, the world crowned the 100 percent champion of Oscar Pistorius.

“And it is such an ab of this experience for me,” Pistorius said. “I have learned a lot, and just being able to come here and represent my country has been very, very humiliating for me …”

But in the swirl of international attention, being humble was a challenge for Oscar Pistorius, superstar. From “The Tonight Show” to Commercials, “wherever you looked was Oscar, Oscar Oscar!” The seal said.

Beautiful and intelligent, the model and aspiring actress Reeva Steenkamp was part of the celebrity society that Pistorius had run directly.

“And everyone just said: ‘Wow, you know? Who is that? Who is that woman?'” Said Seal.

The modeling now took a reality show. Steenkamp modeled from the age of 14, but she would also study the law. She was ambitious, compassionate and politically conscious.

“… She and her mother were defenses of the whole life of women who suffered violence and domestic abuse,” said Seal.

Only four days before they kill her shots, Steenkamp was tweeting:

Gina Myers and Reeva became roommates and best friends.

“She is the most surprising human being,” said Myers. “All about her. Her belief system. She – the integrity she had.”

“She was a growing star of tremendous magnitude,” said Seal.

Like Oscar Pistorius. The two supernovas would not take long to meet.

“Oscar is a very, very sexy boy,” Reeva said in a red carpet interview. “But he doesn’t do it in a arrogant and unpleasant way … he is a gentleman.”

“I was definitely in love,” said the couple’s friend, Jen her.

But where some saw a magical couple, others saw an Oscar Pistorius changed by fame.

“People said that he went from the humble and friendly Oscar to Oscar the Invincible. As, ‘I am Oscar Pistorius. The world owes me,” said Seal.

“It was always the same Oscar that I met for the first time I met him,” said Van Der Watt.

Except for a crucial thing: Pistorius was now afraid, not from the competition on the track, but of the celebrity of the crime can attract.

“When I visited him and stayed at his home, and he turns on the alarm system, and he tells me … ‘I’m sleeping with my 9 millimeters next to my bed,” said Van der Watt.

“With your weapon?” Van Sant asked.

“With his gun, yes,” said Van der Watt.

Two weeks before Oscar Pistorius shot Reeva Steenkamp until death, the brilliant couple dined with her good friend Jen her.

“We had a great, great night 101,” said his. “Oscar was simply different with Reeva … Reeva was for tasks.”

Ex girlfriend speaks

Oscar Pistorius, the golden child, always had a woman on her arm. But just before Reeva Steenkamp, there was Samantha Taylor, with an aspect that was surprisingly similar.

Samantha was only 17 when they met; Oscar was 24 years old. Life was instantly glamorous. For two years, they were an article.

Samantha, now 20 years old, and his mother, Trish Taylor, spoke with “48 hours” about what life was like with Oscar Pistorius. They met at Rugby Match.

“Our relationship happened quite fast,” Samantha told Debora Patta. “He was very charming and respectful.”

“In a way, his first great love really,” Patta told Trish.

“Yes, I was happy with that, they were happy together. He came to our place quite frequently,” she replied. “We had really fun moments with Oscar. We had some good and good times with him.”

“We love each other very much,” said Samantha.

“He treated her well, he treated her with respect,” Trish added.

But life with Oscar soon became complicated.

When asked when he began to notice changes in the Oscar, Samantha told Patta: “In the three months of our relationship … he stirred very quickly.”

What triggered it?

“Many things that would generally not leave someone,” Samantha explained. “If we had fought for something I was wearing, I would have to change … he was very controlling. He always wanted to know where he was, who was with him. If he didn’t believe myself, I would call my family.”

“If she was somewhere where he did not want her to be, then, then all hell unleashed,” Trish added.

“He asked me to send photos of what I have already put the person I am sitting next to him,” Samantha continued, “he would think I’m out of party. So I would have to send him a photo.”

“It was definitely emotional, total manipulation, it was very abusive,” said Trish.

“Did you advise you to leave it?” Patta asked.

“I didn’t do it,” Trish replied. “I didn’t want to be the one to say: ‘This has to end forever,’ because he never ends forever when a mother says that.”

Another problem for Trish was Oscar’s concern about weapons. “I hated weapons. I don’t like arms,” he said.

“He definitely had an obsession with the weapons. Therefore, he was always in the shooting field, always with his children, whether car races or, leaving,” Samantha said.

“I think as time passed, we got used to the weapon. So, I, which is crazy,” Trish exclaimed.

“There were twice when I hid his gun because I felt very feared,” Samantha said. “Once upon a time when I was, he had been drinking and fell and thought he had hit him. So things like, he would say, you know, ‘you, bitch, you hit me on the face.’ Things like that where you don’t know how to react.”

“It was something like, ‘Where is my gun? I need my gun. I can’t go to bed without the gun,'” he continued. “And I only thought: ‘You know, if there is a weapon around, anything can go wrong.’ So I avoided it as much as I could.”

Samantha witnessed the Prosecutor’s Office at the trial for Pistorius murder. She testified about her recklessness with weapons, describing an incident when he and a friend were arrested for speeding, then minutes after they left, “Oscar got very angry,” he testified. “Approximately two minutes after seeing Oscar take his gun and shoot off the roof of the car.”

But the day it really happened, Samantha told his mother about the incident. No one said a word.

“I was living with fear,” Trish told Patta. “Because we thought about that stage that Oscar was, the golden child. And although we could have talked about him, I think we would have left as these ridiculous people who tried to cause problems and I don’t think anyone had taken note of it.”

In the summer of 2012, with the historical race of Pistorius against the healthy body that is coming, the pressure increased and the Oscar was increasingly inclined in Trish to obtain support.

“He started calling me and crying on the phone. Sometimes it was daily,” he said.

“Do you suggest that he leaves and looking for therapy?” Patta asked Trish.

“Yes, many times,” she replied. “I begged him on numerous occasions to go to advice. And he always promised. And he never did.”

“What did you need for help?” Patta asked.

“His behavior. His whole. You know, he had, I don’t think he never came to an agreement with losing his mother. I think it was something huge in his life. I think he was, in many ways, a small child who needed to be treated. And he had never arisen from that. And in other ways, he could conquer the world,” said Trish.

Just before Pistorius went to the Olympic Games in London, made an impressive call to Trish.

“I didn’t want to go,” he said. “He, the day he was destined to fly, called me and said: ‘I’m not going. I’m not going to the Olympic Games.’ And then I was sobbing, sobbing and sobbing.”

“It was, it was quite childish,” Patta said.

“Very childish. Very childish. Yes,” said Trish.

“Why did you stay with him for so long?” Patta asked Samantha.

“I think beyond our imperfections and our fights and arguments, we love each other very much,” he said.

Samantha set up the ups and downs with Pistorius until there were acts of betrayal that could not forgive. First with the glamorous Russian model Anastassia Khozissova and then one night Samantha watched television and saw Oscar with Reeva Steenkamp.

“I was disconsolate, definitely. I mean, you are solving your relationship with someone and is on the screen with another lady. And since then, we never contacted again,” Samantha said.

“What did he think when, when Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead?” Patta asked Trish.

“She was devastated,” she replied.

“Did you think in her story, who shot her thinking that she was an intruder?” Patta asked.

“It’s very difficult to say,” she replied. “All I can say is that when Oscar was out of our lives, he didn’t believe he no longer said anything. Absolutely nothing.”

“Did you think … when you heard that it was Reeva who was shot, that you could have been you?” Patta asked Samantha.

“Yes, definitely,” she replied.

“If you could see it now, what would you say?” Patta asked Trish.

“I saw him in court … and made visual contact with me,” Trish replied. “And the first feeling was … I had to take care of him, he needed to protect him … but the next day, the next day, he got on the stage. And after trying to reach me in some way, he stayed there with a serious face and said: ‘Samantha Taylor is a liar’. … and I thought: ‘That is just him. He will leave anyone … he has no scruples.”

Athletes and violence

Athletes and experts know that the roar of a crowd can change a person for better or for worse.

“They treat you differently. You get, you give yourself more things,” said Mike Golic, who played defensive Tackle for nine NFL seasons, “said the correspondent of” 48 hours “, Richard Schlesinger.

Gir understands the seduction of first -hand flattery. “You have a greater sense of invincibility; that you can basically do what you want and you will get yours,” he said.

Golic now presents “Mike & Mike” by ESPN Radio with his coanfrerion, sports journalist Mike Greenberg.

“I think that invincibility air comes not only from physical domain when you play, but also for a feeling that ‘whatever happens, someone will take care of that. Because it’s me. I’m special,'” said Greenberg.

Not only special, but immune from the law or above the law. The football player Ray Rice, who shows himself by dragging his unconscious fiance of a video elevator, was almost forgiven by his fans and employers with a two -game suspension … until a second video tape was broadcast on September 8.

Rice has been fired by the Baltimore Ravens, lost all his support agreements and is now suspended indefinitely by the NFL.

This crime, such as Oscar Pistorius shooting from Reeva Steenkamp, has drawn the attention of the world and, once again, linked athletes with violence in the public’s mind.

“People often talk that athletes are a violent population, or it is more likely to participate in criminal behavior. And there really is no investigation to support that,” said Mitch Abrams, sports psychologist and author of “management of anger in sport.”

“But the perception is also: ‘Well, these guys are, they are almost mental cases in the field, and they cannot turn it off, out of the field.’ So we hope the position S for weapons, or we expect the charges of abuse, “Golic said.

Abrams says that, often, athletes are their own worst enemies, too proud, when they face teasing or challenges inside or outside the field, to get away.

“The people who I think have a greater risk of breaking are those full -fledged narcissists, those who are so full of themselves …”, he said. “And where does it start? Someone took a chance in their virility.”

How difficult is it just to get away? ?

“Oh, Oh, it’s very difficult to get away,” Golic told Schlesinger. “It is very difficult when you enter that way, in that mentality he turns it off … and unfortunately, that is what can put the boys in trouble.”

“Sport is a microcosm of society. There are men out there who commit horrible acts when they put their hands on a woman. There are some of them who are professional athletes and end at the top of the news,” Greenberg added.

“I think that when we talk about professional athletes we should compare them with celebrities, not with the average Joe,” Abrams said.

Athletes attract the same type of attention as other celebrities. Sometimes, it is the wrong type of attention.

“How vulnerable these types are attacks against themselves?” Schlesinger asked Greenberg.

“I think that judging by their own actions, they feel very vulnerable,” he replied.

And sometimes they are vulnerable. Sean Taylor, a Washington Redskins player, was shot dead in his own home in 2007.

Pistorius has said he lay down with his gun because he was afraid of an invasion of the house.

“You will have a completely separated argument of whether it is a good idea or a bad idea. But I think that, forget what they say. Listen, look what they do. These guys carry weapons. And they are not doing it for no reason,” said Gir.

Often, fear is part of fame. Arrogance can also be, and arrogance can convince an athlete that outside the field, he does not have to play according to the rules.

“The Pistorius case is a case of domestic violence. Many of the cases in this country are domestic violence. What does that say?” Schlesinger asked Golic.

“I don’t think it’s separated from the world from sport to society. There are people who also do it in regular society. I call them cowardly,” he replied. “I don’t know what triggers someone to do that. It’s hard for me to talk about it. But for me, there is no excuse for that. Zero. None.”

A judge’s decision

The headlines said everything: “Oscar dodges the bullet.” With a guilt of guilty homicide and not guilty of premeditated murder, Judge Masipa said his decision was based on Pistorius’s mental state.

“The defendant’s version was that he shot at the door of the bathroom … The defendant’s behavior shortly after the incident is inconsistent with the behavior of someone who intended to commit murder.

“I think the verdict was one that would classify as disciplined,” Judge Robert Holdman said, who served in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. “I think from her perspective, perhaps not from the court of public opinion, but in her perspective, she believed that the version of Oscar Pistorius, her point of view, did not know she was her and did not intend to kill anyone.”

The judge’s ruling was an overwhelming blow for the case of prosecutor Gerrie Nel.

“This is an example of a defendant who obtains the benefit that the State does not demonstrate its case beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Mark O’Mara, a defense lawyer and legal analyst at CNN who successfully defended George Zimmerman for the fatal shooting of the Adolescent Disassembly Trayvon Martin.

“What he told Pistorius with his verdict was: ‘You are responsible because you caused a negligent death. You should have avoided it, you could have avoided it and did not do it,” he said.

Dr. David Klatzow, who specializes in forensic sciences, does not agree with the judge.

“It comes as a big surprise for me, the trial,” Klatzow said. “Given the circumstances, given the fact that he admitted having fired the four shots, I cannot see how he can escape the conclusion that he intended to kill someone behind that bathroom door.”

“Have you made a mistake?” Patta asked.

“I think so,” Klatzow replied. “But I can tell him this, that each person in a legal capacity with whom I have spoken, and talked with many in the last 24 hours, has expressed extreme surprise in the result of this trial.”

The judge rejected the prosecution claims that the couple argued that night.

“I think she completely ignored all the testimony of the neighbors,” Holdman said. “Essence in a box, saying:” Everyone was wrong, all were wrong with their information … “

The neighbors testified that they heard cry and scream:

Annette Stipp: M’Lady the screams I heard were petrified. The woman shouts. Just before the shots.

Michelle Berger: … it was curdled with blood. … It was something that leaves you cold.

Barry Roux: Was it the soft, noisy crying?

Neighbor: The cry was like (mimics the acute cry that he heard that night)

“They simply reported what they thought,” Masipa said. “The evidence of the witnesses must be rejected in its entirety …”

And the judge did not believe that Oscar’s excitable tones in the Court could have been confused with the screams of a woman:

Gerrie in: “What did you shout?”

Oscar Pistorius: I shouted. I said: “Take out the f — From my house! Take the f — from my house!

Finally, Judge Masipa accepted the description of Barry Roux’s defense lawyer of the “Blade Runner” as a vulnerable and anxious man.

“You are a child without legs. I experience that disability daily that you cannot flee … that constant reminder: ‘I have no legs … I am not the same, that’s with him. He can’t pretend,” Roux addressed the court.

Steenkamp’s family listened to the painful details when Pistorius told the court that he heard a noise in the dark and feared for his life.

“… and then I heard a noise inside the toilet … before realizing, I shot four shots to the door and my ears were playing, I could not hear anything,” said a Pistorius who cries the court during the trial. “I sat on Reeva and cried. I don’t know how long he was there for (sobbing) that he wasn’t breathing.”

However, the judge told the court even with disabilities, his actions were not justified.

“Many have been victims of violent crimes, but they have not resorted to sleeping with firearms under their pillows,” Masipa said.

The judge dismissed the text messages exchanged between Oscar and Reeva as proof of where his relationship was.

“In my opinion, none of this evidence of the State or defense demonstrates anything,” he said.

But end the end, one of the Reeva text messages read in the Court left a lasting and disturbing impression:

“I can’t be attacked by strangers to go out with you, and be attacked by you, the only person I deserve protection.”

What follows?

The verdict is and the trial is made, but the story is far from finishing.

“We still have to wait for the real sentence. We still do not know all the technicalities of what that guilty homicide verdict will mean for him,” said Oscar Pistorius’s friend, Jen her.

Pistorius is released on bail, waiting for a different decision about the personal price you will pay for your crimes.

“The rank of sentences is huge, it is essentially from zero to 15 years,” said Dr. Alexander Sasha Bardey.

Judge Masipa will be free to consider everything from the events of that bloody Valentine’s Day to the character and mind of man.

“In the sentence phase now, the judge may consider a series of important factors, including his disability, including his life experience, his mother’s experiences and the impact that he imprisoned in an individual like Oscar Pistorius,” Bardey said.

Will Pistorius go to prison? Legal experts think it is likely.

“My instinct is that it will probably arrive between three and eight,” said Mark O’Mara.

“I don’t see negligence in what he did. I see a reckless contempt for taking his life from another human being,” said Dr. David Klatzow, who shared an outrage of buildings by the verdict, the feeling that Pistorius had easily put himself.

“Was justice served?” Debora Patta asked Klatzow.

“I don’t think so. I think there is a problem,” he replied.

The problem comes from the South African weapons culture that Oscar Pistorius hugged.

“What is to send a message on the issue of domestic violence?” Patta asked.

“We have a great incidence in this country of … male violence against female and a lot of male violence in the spouse. And that is not a good message to send to the country,” Klatzow said.

That verdict came to Twitter as a bomb. The predominant opinion: Pistorius escaped with the murder.

“Well, he hasn’t come out with his. We need to see what happens next,” Klatzow said. “I can only express an extreme astonishment.”

“Amazing” has defined Pistorius. And today the child who bravely carved a legacy like no other, won another victory: not guilty of premeditated murder.

But something else was evident. The man who conquered his disabilities was destroyed by his demons.

“For some, Oscar Pistorius will always be the hero. But for others, Oscar Pistorius the murderer,” Mark Seal said.

Much after the verdict was read, this story probably resonates.

“It has everything. It has drama, two young attractions, the culture of weapons of South Africa and, of course, Oscar Pistorius, Olympic hero,” said Seal.

“Nothing is going to change because my daughter will not come back,” said June Steenkamp.

This day, the mother of a daughter killed by shots spoke for people around the world to say: “Take out the murderer’s attention center … and remember my beautiful son.”

“And we try to think about his immense talents, his warmth and sincerity,” said his. “Reeva was a person full of goodness. And we tried to keep thinking about that in our memory.”