No charges will be filed in connection with a fight that Oklahoma teen Nex Benedict was involved in a day before they died, the Tulsa County district attorney said.
  • cowboycrustation [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago

    I really hope that Nex will get justice and that there will be an independent investigation into this because this is a load of bullshit.

    Do they think we’re stupid? Even if the cause of death was suicide (which we don’t know for sure, because the autopsy is shady AF.) it’s a known fact that getting a concussion can make people suicidal. Either way, the girls who attacked him are responsible for his death. Pouring water on someone does not justify killing them.

    • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 months ago

      I think Nex used they/them. Knowing Oklahoma they aren’t gonna look into this anymore at all. It’s already a very backwards state when it comes to respecting human life, the fact that they were non-binary essentially means that there no chance Oklahoma is taking this seriously.

      Even if a concussion didn’t contribute being non-binary in as hostile a place as OK can’t have helped. As long as these assholes are in charge kids will continue to die (and not just Trans kids, it’s not a picnic being any minority in Oklahoma).

      • cowboycrustation [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        14·
        3 months ago

        Nex used he/him and they/them pronouns.

        “Benedict, a 16-year-old Indigenous person who used both he/him and they/them pronouns according to friends and family”

        Source: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/15/1238780699/nex-benedict-nonbinary-oklahoma-death-bullying

        I know all too well about these kinds of situations. My first thought when this story broke out in the news was “this could have been me.” I’m from a state in the deep south with similar politics, and I know how easily local politics can get corrupted. I was a baby trans in a shitty, transphobic school system too. There are good people and people who care and want to help who are from there I’m sure, but the system has been built from the ground up to enforce the status quo.

        I hope that there will be justice for Nex Benedict. If not now, then someday when things change for the better. In the meantime, we have to fight to get there and hold people accountable for their actions.

      • zaph@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        3 months ago

        He used they/them because it was easier especially for the parents. According to close friends Nex was a boy.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    17·
    3 months ago

    oklahoma deserves to burn to the ground if they’re going to go this far to try and protect chaya raichik’s culpability.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    every queer suicide is a murder, and the manner of death is bullying. they can make it legal to murder us, but they can’t make it not murder.