The cowards, this is how its being reported on all major news channels. Lie after lie.

In a statement to ABC News, the Owasso Police Department said it suspected the cause of Benedict’s death, but refrained from saying anything pending the results of the medical examiner’s office.

The students of Oklahoma are holding walkouts to honor Nex. It would be appreciated if you joined any nearby vigil or march honoring them, in solidarity.

Remember that this wasn’t some passive death, transphobes actively and knowingly agitated harm against them. This was a murder, not a suicide. They, an indigenous trans minor, died in the hospital after being assaulted in the bathroom by 6 transphobes.

Last week, a family buried their nonbinary child, Nex Benedict, who died after being brutally beaten in the girls’ bathroom at their high school in Oklahoma. According to their mother, 16-year-old Benedict had been bullied relentlessly for a year leading up to the incident, in which a group of peers ganged up on them and a trans student. It’s a horrific case and one that is inseparable from its context amid a climate of seemingly unceasing anti-LGBT demonization in the state and the nation.

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I think it was the next morning. Unless there is some other indication I would have to say it was due to suicide like they claim.

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Ah, yes, they just chose to get a head injury from being beat up to the point of losing consciousness and by the way happened to die the next morning for completely unrelated reasons…

:gulag:

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Do you have any idea the actual cause of death? I dont, and if they say suicide, and they have waited this long to confirm, then I would say it was suicide unless you have some compelling information to say its not.

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if they say suicide […] then I would say it was suicide unless you have some compelling information to say its not

Counterargument: if they say suicide then I would say it was most definitely not suicide unless you have some compelling information to say it is.

In cases like this always assume they are lying and reality is the exact opposite of what they claim.

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Yes, we do. The day following the sustainment of head injuries which resulted in the acute loss of consciousness (that is, the day after Nex sustained a severe brain injury) Nex was with their mother preparing to travel for an appointment when their eyes rolled back in their head, they collapsed and were struggling to breathe.

The next day, Benedict called 911 requesting medics for Nex, whose eyes were rolling back and was struggling to breathe. Benedict described how Nex had been dealing with a headache after the fight at the school.

Above quote from Fox23 article Owasso Police release body cam video, 911 call, leading up to student’s death following fight in school bathroom
Fox23 News Article
Internet Archive of the same Fox23 News Article

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So if Alice shoots Bob, and Bob survives the initial shooting only to die later from, say, blood loss or additional shock due to the very same bullet wound, Bob committed suicide and Alice didn’t do anything wrong?

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Why do you assume Nex died from the injuries from the assault?

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Can’t remember what exact

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I guess those people who dived out the burning windows of the World Trade Centers were suicides too then, yeah?

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