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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.
Remember, an injury against one of us is an injury against all of us.
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absolutely disgusting. even if they did kill themself (which, given other examples of malpractice from the authorities surrounding this case and the claimed cause of death not really matching up there is more than a little reason to doubt), the refusal to put any blame on the year long transphobic harassment campaign or the brutal attack they suffered the day before where they blacked out partway through is appalling. deeply evil reporting
describing their death as them dying "one day after getting into a physical fight with several other students at Owasso High School" without any further mention of it, when that fight was them being ganged up on after a year of harassment and resulted in nex blacking out partway through the fight is journalistic malpractice
Kiara Alfonseca is a journalist and producer who covers the topics of education, policing, economic and social injustice through the lens of identity.
GREAT FUCKING JOB ON THAT KIARA
everyone views things through the lens of identity, it came free with your subjectivity
since this shit article explains nothing
i don't fucking believe an antihistamine and anti depressant killed them.
also i personally know of people who got head injuries, seemed fine, and died not long after.
Diphenhydramine and fluoxetine actually have major interactions, but they do not match the reports about how Nex died at all. The combo has a significant risk of causing serotonin syndrome, this would practically be a given in case of an OD, and serotonin syndrome is, among other symptoms, marked by a highly agitated, confused state of mind, an often dangerously increased heart rate, muscle spasms and cramps, sometimes also diarrhea and vomiting and especially symptoms of hyperthermia like fever and profuse sweating, as the constant muscle spasms make the body temperature rise to life-threatening levels. Serotonin syndrome sends the entire body into overdrive, potentially fatal cases are a very, very noticeable condition. Especially when somebody is known to be on an SSRI like fluoxetine, serotonin syndrome should come to mind immediately, would be easily diagnosed by looking at the symptoms and could then be treated accordingly.
The sudden, spontaneous collapse that preceded Nex' hospitalization and death doesn't match this at all. An overdose of diphenhydramine would also already be guaranteed to cause a state of hallucinatory delirium on its own, but this wasn't reported by Sue Benedict, either. Nex' grandmothers' account of how they died doesn't match this toxicity report at all. This is an obvious cover-up story, just as the entire case has been dismissed and covered up by all authorities involved ever since the bathroom fight.
Nex Benedict didn't kill themselves. They were murdered by three girls at their school and the state government of Oklahoma is making a piss-poor attempt to hide this truth from the public, because they enacted the very policies that encouraged the murder.
Yeah, and Seratonin Syndrome isn't a fast killer either. I've gotten it twice now, and never even got medical treatment for the first one. If seratonin syndrome is the actual killer, this would be serious medical neglect by the hospital
this would be serious medical neglect by the hospital
which would again likely be due to transphobia
Doctors generally think trans people are med hunting. If Nex actually died of what is being reported, the doctors would have had hours to save them, and all the doctors would have had to do is give them a xanax.
Yeah, I'm not a doctor, but from using both of those drugs in my life prozac caused me... sexual issues, and just leave it at that. Benadryl I used to take constantly for allergies as a child. It definitely made me sleepy and groggy, I COULD imagine it potentially killing someone, but even reading online briefly that seems incredibly rare as i suspected. I give my dog like 4 Benadryl capsules if she's upset by thunder (vet approved). I don't think this is a drug with a record for danger. This is so weird.
it truly sounds like made up bullshit. they dont even know how much zyrtec and prozac was in their system. Nex had prescribed and/or OTC allergy medicine in their system so its a suicide? Highest level of bullshit. Oklahoma desperate to not look like they murder trans children.
You can OD on antihistamines surprisingly easily. Benadryl is the common one.
My brother probably died that way, not necessarily a suicide, just took too many and something happened.
That being said, the fact that this happened in the context of them being in the hospital for a beating it's highly unlikely, and even if those substances were involved, their effects only amplified other issues from blunt trauma or internal bleeding.
I've lost a friend or two to concussions sustained in a moshpit that weren't noticed.
If you lose sight of your buddy and they seem much drunker when you find them again, keep an eye on them. Maybe ask them some concussiony questions
Makes me physically fucking ill reading a fucking lynching reported as a "physical altercation." This country is going to murder us all and libs won't even bat an eyelash.
This is why I footstomp getting armed and putting in range time. There'll come a day, probably very soon, where it'll be better to have and not need, rather than need and not have.
Even if it was legitimatly a suicide, it was still a murder. You bully someone into killing themself, thats murder.
It's gotta be a cop's kid this all tracks back to origin with; either that, or some flaccid Republican politico's kid. They wouldn't be playing the BLATANT lie card otherwise.
Yeah, the "positive spin" on this story is literally that Nex was so fucking traumatized and terrified that he thought of escape through death was preferable to going back to school. It's just so bleak how suicide is looked down upon as this weak thing that weak people do, instead of turning around and thinking about how evil your fucking society is that people think that merely existing in that society it is a fate worse than death.
Death to Owasso PD, death to the Oklahoma "Chief Medical Examiner", death to every single irredeemable anglo parasite who had a hand in Nex's death; because you just know it was reich-wing, evangelical crackery that took them from us.
the actual fuck? by what mechanism is beating the actual shit out of a literal indigenous minor simply "bullying?" they got fucking lynched and justice should reflect it.
they got beaten until they blacked out the day before this, after which they were suspended for 2 weeks and no one at the school called any medical professionals, and yet all these news orgs say about it is "they got into a fight"
evil, evil shit.
they're using the same grammar when reporting cops doing heinous shit. this country is sickening
the liberal news lens will always tarpaulin the bodies it seems
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— The state of Oklahoma was built on cover-ups, Detective.
fuck thats good
oh, you're in for such a treat. please post about it as you go through it.
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because they were teenagers who were encouraged to do so by adults
"I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."
Even money, this tracks back to either some pig's child or some middling-rank republican's child
How do we not know this? I would think they would have been doxed by now
“ I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.”The way things are going, it might be a matter of time before it happens.
The fact that they make little effort to even give performative anti-transphobia is just them signaling that this shit is okay
So much for the accepting nature of liberals
Sickening to the core, may justice come to the murderers
Are you kidding? Liberals are incredibly accepting.
Accepting of murder, accepting of genocide, accepting of bigotry, accepting of fascism, accepting of any bad thing that happens to other people. Liberals love to accept any and all forms of injustice, their only limit to acceptance is any existence in opposition to or resistance whatsoever to that injustice.
this is legitimately a good quote though, starring
god I fucking hate liberals, they've sold their soul for cash and comfort
twelve shots in the back and hanging upside down in a barn. died via suicide. not even that much of an exaggeration.
incredible reporting though, just fucking great shit.
You're not gonna believe this chief. The fella broke in and hung up pictures of himself and his family. Real sick shit.
rest in power, Nex.
Tangentially related, but I've been seeing some liberals scolding people for using phrases like "Rest in power" or "say their name" when referring to Nex, because Apparently those terms are reserved for black people?
It just feels deeply tone deaf and inappropriate to me, to see liberals look at the death of a trans, indigenous, child, and choose to police people's words and grief, rather than contend with the tragedy unfolding in front of them.
And I'd consider you correct. The struggles may not be 1:1 exactly the same, but they're intractably linked; as much as my dander might spike at anglos misusing AAVE. In this case, it's not a misuse in the slightest. Like I said, the struggle is intractably linked; it's really no different from applying those phrases to Palestine's martyrs.
those people are literally rewriting history. these terms are and were never intended to be reserved for a single group - it runs counter to their actual meaning. they're an acknowledgement of those who have been unjustly taken from us, a claim to solidarity, and a promise to take power to prevent such deaths in the future. that's why it's rest in power over rest in peace - peace is what led to these deaths. this attempt at division is entirely intended to prevent meaningful change when deaths like these should galvanize us towards further solidarity and a recommitment to immediate and decisive action. absolutely no one blinked an eye when white people got killed during the Floyd protests and we said the same thing back then because it's obvious we're fighting the same fight.
don't let liberals rewrite history. make them rue the dead.
This shit has been really awful and grim to follow much love and solidarity with all trans and enby comrades
Is this ment to be a fucking victory lap? Fuck this fucking bloodsoaked demon country.
also to be clear the claim is that they overdosed on benadryl and prozac??? seems fucking unlikely the more i look into it, i don't know anything about drugs but people who claim to say it's sus, and i can't find anything saying they're likely to be lethal when taken together or that deaths are at all common from either
like, as pictured below the warning says they MAY increase dizzyness, and the elderly might have more severe results. that's not lethal! they would have had to take a LOT and even then it seems unlikely
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This is extremely fishy, as someone who knows a lot about drugs. The two don't really overlap much, although Seratonin Syndrome is possible from the combo at high doses. But if it were seratonin syndrome, all it would take to have saved them was a some benzos and wouldn't have been life threatening unless left untreated for a very long time. I know how to kill myself with anti-depressants and was able to save myself without even telling the doctors the truth of what I did because I didn't want to be institutionalized. And that was 2 days after I had taken all the shit, and like I said I know how to actually make SSRIs deadly. Still had 2 days before it got really bad.
from a trusted comrade I know IRL who I know has taken both for sleep:
the mixture of diphenhydramine and fluoxetine does not produce toxicity on its own, you can technically overdose on diphenhydramine but you have to take an incomprehensible amount and you will show extreme signs of slowdown before any loss of conciousness
yeah I don't believe this shit for a second. Those cops are lying.
overdose on diphenhydramine but you have to take an incomprehensible amount and you will show extreme signs of slowdow
you will show extreme signs of your brain breaking into absolute delirious psychosis idk what "slowdown" is
Slowdown is definitely how it looks from an outsider perspective. If you're overdosing, you're slowing down instead of getting a delirious energy boost
Just looking up those two drugs and how much it takes to kill you, once you get past the suicide hot lines you get an article from Drugs.com "Using diphenhydrAMINE together with FLUoxetine may increase side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness, confusion, and difficulty concentrating."
I still believe Nex got some sort of brain bleed, and although I might believe that these drugs might have perhaps thinned already damaged blood vessel in the brain, I think an examine from someone who is not looking to rule the death a suicide is going to be the only thing that will reveal the truth. Most Medical Examiners are Cops too, and sometimes their job is make cops jobs easier, by making possible murders disappear. (Why the Fuck they releasing this news on a Wednesday at like 8pm?)
So yeah, I'm going to wait for the family's independent autopsy, but I have an ready for their autopsy to reveal lots of tampering that makes it hard to find evidence of anything else.
is a fascist country.
