Media Narrative of “Anti-Trans” Violence Cast In Doubt As Video Surfaces Of Deceased ‘Trans’ Nex Benedict Admitting She Was The Aggressor
“The officer then advises Nex and Sue Benedict that the courts could view throwing liquid on someone as assault and as the action that started the altercation.”
Another day, another Democrat hactivist media lie. When the “news” broke that ‘transgender’ teen Nex Benedict was hospitalized after an altercation at her high school, the media went into overdrive spinning their web of lies. The danger to ‘trans’ people is REEEEAL, they screeched. The bullying must stop, they moaned.
Well, it turns out that, and according to Nex Benedict herself, she was the aggressor, the instigator, the bully.
Nex Benedict describing the incident in her own words:
The girls didn’t have a history of bullying her as has been claimed in several articles. They had never even seen each other before the incident. She assaulted them first because she thought they were laughing at her. Nex… pic.twitter.com/dQmCQzTqKd
— Storm (@stormrobinson) February 24, 2024
Tragically, Benedict died the day after the incident she admitted that she instigated, though a cause of death has not yet been established (well, reported).
But check out the Democrat media crazy.
Democrat journalismists at USAToday “report” (archive link):
As police continued Thursday to probe the death of an Oklahoma teen who died a day after being involved in a fight that broke out in a high school bathroom, authorities announced a preliminary autopsy showed the student’s death was not the result of “trauma.”
The death of Nex Benedict, 16, has prompted widespread attention and nationwide calls for schools to better protect students who may be bullied because of their gender and sexual identities. Nex, a sophomore at Owasso High School, used they/them and he/him pronouns and identified as gender expansive, an umbrella term that describes people whose gender identity expands beyond traditional gender norms, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Nex had previously been bullied because of their gender identity, friends of Nex told an advocacy group. Authorities are investigating what led up to the fight and whether Nex was targeted because of their gender identity.
The problem, of course, is that Nex herself told police that she attacked the younger girls first, that she was the bully and started the altercation. Several things are very clear from her own statement to police: she did not know the girls, she started the incident with them, and she is not clear on why the girls reacted to her aggression with their own. Sigh. File under: FAFO
Here’s CNN attempting to report on the police video (archive link). It’s unintentionally both hilarious and confusing because of their bizarre pronoun use.
Body camera video from February 7 shows an Owasso police officer interacting with Nex and their guardian, Sue Benedict, in a hospital after the fight in a school bathroom between two groups of students.
Nex tells the officer they didn’t know the other girls – “I don’t know their names, I don’t know them,” – but the girls had ridiculed the way they dressed before. Sue Benedict says in the prior week, she had counseled Nex to just ignore the three girls. Nex says they didn’t see the point of reporting the previous verbal abuse to school officials.
Nex says the day of the fight, they went to the bathroom “and I was talking with my friends, they were talking with their friends and we were laughing. And they had said something like, ‘Why do they laugh like that?’ And they were talking about us in front of us.”
In response to those comments, Nex tells the officer they poured water from their water bottle on the students and that’s when things escalated. They came at Nex and grabbed at their hair, Nex says. Nex was then able to grab one of the girls and threw her into a paper towel dispenser, they say. Nex eventually got thrown onto the ground and the other students proceeded to beat them up, Nex says in the video.
“They got my legs out from under me and got me on the ground and started beating the sh*t out of me,” Nex says.
One of Nex’s friends tried to help, but Nex blacked out and isn’t sure what happened, they say.
The officer then advises Nex and Sue Benedict that the courts could view throwing liquid on someone as assault and as the action that started the altercation.
Eventually the Benedicts decide not to seek charges.
You don’t say.
So of course Democrat activists are trying to turn this into another “hands up, don’t shoot” lie. Despite the facts being known and widely reported at the time of Nex’s memorial.
HAPPENING NOW: Oklahoma “human rights” activists hijacked memorial for Nex Benedict to campaign against “MAGA extremists” @ChayaRaichik10 and the Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters.
Nex's death has been politically exploited by the left, who use it to position themselves as… pic.twitter.com/8Ihs0NtevO
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) February 25, 2024
They are all narcissists , they so called care so much about this nex person or dagney but they make the whole thing about them? Also if they really cared where was all of their outrage of the 6 trans shooters in 2 months I heard nothing . https://t.co/FsnPfFGoAG
— Kyle moose (@mooserocka331) February 25, 2024
And then there’s this.
Nex Benedict’s family was forced to issue an apology to transgender activists for “misgendering” their daughter and using her real name. The activists have hijacked the family’s tragedy. pic.twitter.com/dZo2kuRUMV
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 22, 2024
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Oopsie…
The heart of this story is a trouble young woman struggling with her place in life. Whatever the facts turn out to be, there is a parent struggling with a loss of their child.
Sad that many are turning this into a national event, and using it for their political purposes. More sad when their preferred narrative doesn’t seem to line up with what really happened.
They don’t care what really happened. They only care what they can make people believe happened.
For the agenda-mongers it’s agenda first, story second, events to provision it, third. Vulnerable people are easier to manipulate to feed a story, or just plug into the standard oppressors n victims story.
Adolescents are nuts — finding your way to who you are ain’t easy. That this happens when puberty and growth spurts are also happening shows The Great Architect plays for slapstick.
We could use more leadership like this Stilgar quote from Dune:
“There are those among my young men who have reached the age of wild spirits,’ he said. ‘They must be eased through this period. I must leave no great reasons around for them to challenge me. Because I would have to maim and kill among them. This is not the proper course for a leader if it can be avoided with honor. A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.”
Pulled it from here:
https://quotefancy.com/quote/1796187/Frank-Herbert-There-are-those-among-my-young-men-who-have-reached-the-age-of-wild-spirits
“Danger to ‘trans’ people is REEEEAL”
It is clear that Trans are much more prone to violence than normal people.
Ask any police officer. Trannies are the most violent people out there.
With lesbians a close second. As I understand it, there’s nothing more potentially dangerous than a lesbian DV call.
I have. And it is not true.
The most violent people, that the police in my county tell me, are white people who are addicted to or are cooking methamphetamine.
Yes, because The Science™ tells us that meth effects white people differently than it does “people of color”, amirite?
What, not “white nationalists?”
Really? THE most? And ANY police officer will confirm this?
Tranny is just a deflection for being criticized for an idiotic choice…how dare you attack a woman?
Never mind that she is a he who needs to be a she to avoid being criticized when the need be; conversely the she that wants to be a he resorts to being a she when someone questions the authenticity.
They are some disturbed people. Bring back institutions and put them to work growing our produce.
LOL.
The depraved insanity knows no bounds, at all.
I’m so confused. This person – I believe a biological female who thinks she’s not any gender, apparently – started some shit because she felt triggered in some way? Then, she dies the next day (not really looking any worse for wear in this video). Is it possible she took her own life either purposefully or accidentally?
I could be wrong. But, to me it looks like it’s more likely this is going to be yet another border crisis story rather than a trans ‘bullying’ story because when otherwise healthy kids die of a non-traumatic event, that event is almost ALWAYS drug-related. Fentanyl takes another life? Perhaps.
That is certainly a possibility that occurred to me, and probably to everyone. But we don’t know whether it’s true.
If someone calls you names walk away don’t assault them unless you are willing to be assaulted right back. Always keep in mind that just as you as the initiator of violence chose the methods, degree and duration of your assault …those responding to it get to determine the methods, degree and duration of their retaliation. Better by far not to initiate an assault IMO.
the bullies started it and she retaliated by throwing water on them
the police have moved left wing and of course the one who died doesnt matter anymore >justice
so they dont want to go after the true bullies
why wont anyone say who the bullies are?
everyone knows so how is it that no one will put THAT info out there???
The bullies didn’t start the assault. She retaliated to their bullying by assaulting them. That makes her the aggressor. But they escalated the violence.
Y0u’re not making any sense. If the police had gone left wing they would be championing her cause and would have gone after the bullies. It’s precisely because they haven’t gone left, at least in Tulsa, that they’re not harassing or naming them.
“the bullies started it and she retaliated by throwing water on them”
You spelled “escalated” wrong.
These poor kids have been lied to by the education system and our society in general… this generation has been raised to believe that “words are violence.”
No wonder they’re terribly confused.
Nope. As the article indicates this person initiated violence against the persons who then retaliated. IOW this tranny FA then FO.
Verbal taunting is not violence.
True, but it is bullying. And they retaliated with disproportionate force, so they’re all guilty.
If A decides to use violence against B then B shouldn’t be surprised when A uses violence in retaliation. Just as A chose the level/type of violence to deploy when he initiated the violence B gets to decide what level/type of violence he will use to retaliate. B can even delay his retaliation to a more advantageous moment.
No whining about the manner, type or duration of a retaliatory ass kicking from those who initiated violence. If you are unsure of the amount of ass kicking you will be able to absorb or unwilling to accept the level of violence your opponent may use then…. it’s best if you don’t initiate violence.
A courtroom is way, way down the path from the moment of conflict. If someone kills, Maine or cripples you in retaliation for the violence you initiated that’s on you. Don’t FA and you won’t FO.
“Wow, looks like Sam just rolled out of bed” is bullying now, even to right-leaning people apparently. Bizarre.
One of the problems we have in schools is summarized by “Everybody is getting bullied but nobody is doing any bullying.” In my anecdotal experience, the vast majority of “bullying” allegations are filed by bullies trying to use the power of the school to continue their bullying if the victim retaliates in any way. We also see a lot of times where two kids are friends and are treating each other poorly, but we don’t want to use the hammer of the bullying process to fix it, so we just tell them to stop. Often, one of the parents learns half the story and demands the bullying paperwork be done, which results in either a very dissatisfied parent or both kids having to go through the process and TWO very dissatisfied parents.
Maybe because my school is very small, but true bullying is exceedingly rare.
“the police have moved left wing”
What does this even mean? Do you ever post when you’re sober?
Do you?
And this poor girl was outnumbered right at the start. I don’t care how many karate movies you have seen, a single fighter is bucking house odds when down 3-1 at the start. Real life can get really sucky sometimes.
The words “bully”, “bullying”, etc. no longer have any real meaning.
They have technical meanings as far as school discipline goes.
Outnumbered is all the more reason not to initiate violence. As you correctly point out real life ain’t the movies and even a trained fighter can be swarmed and taken down by weight of numbers.
Don’t start something if you are outnumbered then. YOU are asking for it.
thanks for finalllly getting to what I had posted about a week ago
the police have been supporting the kneeling blmplo agenda for 3+ years now
obama scores>>>>we will fundamentally change america
its worked
the banking system is next
What the hell are you talking about?? This is the police not supporting that agenda! Apparently Tulsa still has decent police.
just like calling 9 11 on poc has become “illegal” ( in some cases actually illegal)
the sjw agenda has become institutionalized now
look out america your facade of free speech is being outed
unlike the criminals who the “law” always likes to say now
we cant release any information
( they are juveniles ….YEAHHHH RIGHT!!)
and BTW COURT CASES HAVE COME DOWN ON THE SIDE OF
PUBLISHING JUVENILES NAMES etc
and IF YOU WANT YOURRRR kid sitting next to “kids” who are willing to bully and then bash in the heads of people
YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!!!!!
No, you are the problem. If you want these girls’ names published, so they can be harassed and bullied and probably assaulted, you are the problem. What I don’t understand is how you accuse the police of being leftist in this case, when you are making a leftist demand?
Really? Cite them.
Good lord you’re an incoherent lunatic.
That is not true. On the video she clearly says that she didn’t know their names but that the same girls had been bullying her for a long time. She is the one who took it physical, and then they escalated it, but the bullying started with them.
BTW if the police had chosen to lay charges, they could have charged both sides. She assaulted them, but they responded with disproportionate force.
We still don’t know what she died of, or whether it had any connection at all to what had happened the previous day. On the face of it it doesn’t seem to have had. Not the result of trauma means they didn’t beat her to death. So it may just be a sad coincidence.
Trayvon Martin also reacted to what he perceived as “bullying” by assaulting the “bully” and attempting to murder him, thus forcing him to defend his life.
Trayvon Martin was a thug who didn’t look at all like the cute little picture the media spread. He was kicked out of his Mothers house, because he was caught with merch, he stole from some burglaries…and was casing the neighborhood where George lived and was doing a neighborhood watch. He was paranoid because of the “lean” he was taking, he wasn’t being bullied…HE was the THUG bully, and he got what he deserved because it was either him or George…and the GOOD guy won.
Crazy people are dangerous.
What happens when you lie, lie, lie and don’t tell people the truth.
God, this is a hell of a price to pay for a lesson that won’t be taken. Getting physical isn’t free.
One kid ended up dead, so far. Beat people die of it, sometimes. Maybe don’t beat people unless you’re willing for them to maybe die of it.
Another kid got slung into a paper towel dispenser by the hair. Sometimes people die of being slung onto metal boxes with corners. Maybe don’t do that unless you’re willing for them to maybe die of it.
Deescalation is a life skill. (So is ending an altercation another way, if that’s the only way to end it left, but that’s a subtlety for after the 101 lesson.)
“people whose gender identity expands beyond traditional gender norms”
Probably the only norms such people will ever exceed in their pitiful lives.
“Well, it turns out that, and according to Nex Benedict herself, she was the aggressor, the instigator, the bully”
Helps if you actually watch the video, the girls picked on Nex then she retaliated by pouring water on them and the situation spiralled when they attacked her. Trying to rewrite the facts isn’t a good look
“Nex had previously been bullied because of their gender identity, friends of Nex told an advocacy group”
I’d also point out there is a distinction between not having being bullied by this particular group vs having a history of being bullied due to their gender identity
Being bullied sucks but receiving taunting and being picked on verbally isn’t violence. I say that as a former short fat kid with glasses in elementary school who was the target of lots of verbal abuse through 6th grade.
Then I grew six inches over the summer came back to begin 7th grade as well above average height and no longer fat. Life got way better and I used my new found social position and size to stop bullying when I saw it.
Initiating violence no matter the provocation is a bad idea. Once you decide to use initiate violence against others you better be prepared to receive the amount of violence those you attacked decide is necessary. If not then don’t initiate violence.
“Initiating violence no matter the provocation is a bad idea. Once you decide to use initiate violence against others you better be prepared to receive the amount of violence those you attacked decide is necessary. If not then don’t initiate violence.”
Sure but that doesn’t negate the fact the article is wrong about the facts, nor does it justify the bullying in the first place. Nor does that justify the violence in response. That’s a practical matter of behaviours spiralling not a legal justification of it.
The tranny initiated violence by attacking these girls by throwing water on them. That’s violence. Don’t initiate acts of violence unless you are prepared to accept whatever level of violence your victim chooses in response.
Picking on/verbal bullying while offensive is NOT violence.
Oh grow up, throwing water doesn’t justify 3 girls attacking someone and landing them in hospital. Nor does that address the fundamental misrepresentations in the article. Your inability to address any of the points is quite something.
Your inability to follow the basic logic of consequences is frightening. Words are not actions. Speech is not violence.If you start a fight via initiating violent acts then be prepared for your opponent to attack you right back as much as and for as long as they see fit.
If A calls B a name:(s) and B initiates violence by physical contact, including with a thrown object or substance, then A is likely to respond to that assault with force of their own. Issues of proportionality will be addressed way,.way down the path, far removed in time from the curb stomping that is likely to follow the actions of A.
If some yahoo throws an unknown substance on me …..that’s a very big problem b/c I am going to respond to that as if that substance were a dangerous chemical precisely b/c I don’t know what it was, what the effects are or what the onset time may be. For all I know it could incapacitate me leaving me vulnerable to follow on attacks.
Or, to put it in bare legal terms: taunting somebody is not criminal battery. Throwing water on them is.
@commochief
Lol , I never said words were actions. Indeed I explicitly stated that as a practical matter it wasn’t a good idea.
And once again you fail to address any point ive made. Can you justify assault, no you can’t. As milhouse has pointed out its still assault if you attack someone when they throw water over you. And again you still haven’t addressed the point that as a matter of fact the article is incorrect.
So again, when you respond actually address the points being made not your imagined ones.
@henrybowman
No one said it was lol
3 girls attacking a kid for throwing water on them is a crime though isn’t it. Good grief
BartE,
In every State the person who initiates an assault loses the claim of self defense. This tranny attacked the three girls. They were previously unknown to the tranny so no history between them existed. The tranny threw an unknown (at the time) substance on them and then slammed one girl. Then one of the tranny’s friends entered into it and what transpired was a ‘mutual combat’ situation among them.
The other point here is don’t confuse speech with violence nor seek to use mere speech as justification for initiating an assault. Not only is doing so likely to lead to a violent response in the short term it is illegal.
I ain’t debating the article. If you want to tell me what specifically is incorrect in the article please do so.
No, throwing water is assault. The girls would have been justified in retaliating, so long as they used only comparable force. They were wrong only because they escalated the degree of force used. As we all know, one of the elements in self defense is that the degree of force used to defend oneself must be reasonable under the circumstances.
That doesn’t seem to be true. She said she didn’t know their names, but that there was a history of them bullying her for some time.
@Milhouse
“No, throwing water is assault. ” I never said it wasn’t. I merely pointed out that throwing water is hardly a justification for what happened next.
“As we all know, one of the elements in self defence is that the degree of force used to defend oneself must be reasonable under the circumstances.” I agree, but i was very clear in my framing that 3 girls attacking someone who threw water is disproportionate.
@Commochief
“This tranny attacked the three girls.” Again, not addressing the point are you.
“In every State the person who initiates an assault loses the claim of self defense.” Are you seriously suggesting throwing water warrants 3 people attacking someone else. This is a you problem. Its not clear to me that’s even true, self defence laws vary from state to state, some are dumber than others true but I seriously doubt your allowed to beat someone up for throwing water at you. And trying to reframe it as an unknown substance is just silly, there is no reason to believe it was anything other than water
“The other point here is don’t confuse speech with violence nor seek to use mere speech as justification for initiating an assault.” No one here other than you has laboured this point, no one is confused about the difference between speech vs action.
“If you want to tell me what specifically is incorrect in the article please do so.” My OP clearly states what is wrong with the article. Which was the entire point of the post!
It clearly does; the only question is, with what degree of force.
BartE,
Your viewpoint is very provincial. It seems as if you believe that every County handles cases of mutual combat as Portland or some other leftist enclave might. Not to mention basic common sense; any legal issue that arise will occur well AFTER the well deserved curb stomping you receive from the victims of your initial act of assault. A shelf of statutes won’t help you to avoid the immediate consequences of your aggression if your victims choose to respond as they see fit.
Outside of leftist enclaves common sense still prevails. An episode where an individual begins a physical assault upon three other people and ends up on the losing end of the imminently foreseeable scuffle that followed would be viewed in my County as ‘tough cookies, you earned your ass kicking’.
It may be all the fashionable rage where you reside to throw unknown (to the victim) substances at your whim but in other places there will be a price paid. The Sheriff ain’t likely to bring charges against those who retaliate against the initial aggressor. If he did the DA would be unlikely to prosecute. If he did the Jury would be unlikely to convict.
Bottom line here is this tranny initiated violence against three people. Then you complain b/c those three people retaliated? Nah Cuz, that won’t fly around my neck of the woods. It might in yours but not where I live and not I suspect in a great number of Counties outside the sway of leftist control.