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Yet more examples of how KP (Killer Pistorious) was privileged, special and got away with things.
Things were pushed under the carpet, says South African broadcaster Graeme Joffe, who co-owned a racehorse with Mr. Pistorius. He was the poster boy for South Africa. Nobody wanted to knock down a role model.
In 2009 and 2012, when questioned by police over alleged incidents of assault and verbal threats, the police were so infatuated with him that he posed for photos with them and gave them autographs. He was speedily released from questioning. Cases were opened, and the cases disappeared, Mr. Joffe said in an interview.
When he was booked on the murder charges, he wasnt handcuffed as the police took him away and he was allowed to stay in a police-station cell by himself, rather than being consigned to an overcrowded prison.
At 15, he was allowed to drive his brothers car illegally around Pretoria. Both he and his brother bought their first cars when they were 17, too young for drivers licences.
A few years later when he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his car on an expressway, and when he smashed into a submerged pier in a motorboat containing empty liquor bottles, the police paid little attention.
When he applied for a licence in 2010 for the gun used to kill Reeva, he could have been denied a licence under firearm regulations because he had already spent a night in jail for allegedly assaulting a woman. Nor was the licence revoked after the incident at Tashas.
Arguably, the biggest privilege of all was the decision to let him compete in the 400-metre race at the London Olympics even though he had not met the official requirements.
In a little-noticed interview on the eve of the Olympic Games, South Africas Sports Minister admitted that Mr. Pistorius was the beneficiary of special treatment He said it was a sensitive issue and Its not really about the athlete; it is a political decision that has been taken.
Simon Magakwe, a sprinter who posted a greater number of Olympic qualifying times than Mr. Pistorius but was still kept off the South African team, later told reporters that he was hurt and saddened to see his Olympic dream destroyed by the decision to favour the celebrity.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-unmaking-of-oscar-pistorius/article10585576/?page=all
Things were pushed under the carpet, says South African broadcaster Graeme Joffe, who co-owned a racehorse with Mr. Pistorius. He was the poster boy for South Africa. Nobody wanted to knock down a role model.
In 2009 and 2012, when questioned by police over alleged incidents of assault and verbal threats, the police were so infatuated with him that he posed for photos with them and gave them autographs. He was speedily released from questioning. Cases were opened, and the cases disappeared, Mr. Joffe said in an interview.
When he was booked on the murder charges, he wasnt handcuffed as the police took him away and he was allowed to stay in a police-station cell by himself, rather than being consigned to an overcrowded prison.
At 15, he was allowed to drive his brothers car illegally around Pretoria. Both he and his brother bought their first cars when they were 17, too young for drivers licences.
A few years later when he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his car on an expressway, and when he smashed into a submerged pier in a motorboat containing empty liquor bottles, the police paid little attention.
When he applied for a licence in 2010 for the gun used to kill Reeva, he could have been denied a licence under firearm regulations because he had already spent a night in jail for allegedly assaulting a woman. Nor was the licence revoked after the incident at Tashas.
Arguably, the biggest privilege of all was the decision to let him compete in the 400-metre race at the London Olympics even though he had not met the official requirements.
In a little-noticed interview on the eve of the Olympic Games, South Africas Sports Minister admitted that Mr. Pistorius was the beneficiary of special treatment He said it was a sensitive issue and Its not really about the athlete; it is a political decision that has been taken.
Simon Magakwe, a sprinter who posted a greater number of Olympic qualifying times than Mr. Pistorius but was still kept off the South African team, later told reporters that he was hurt and saddened to see his Olympic dream destroyed by the decision to favour the celebrity.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-unmaking-of-oscar-pistorius/article10585576/?page=all
