A police spokesman said previous statements that Nex Benedict didn’t die as a result of “trauma” didn’t rule out the fight as a contributing factor.

A police spokesman said previous statements that Nex Benedict didn’t die as a result of “trauma” didn’t rule out the fight as a contributing factor.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    591·
    9 months ago

    So the cops in previous statements were being purposefully misleading to help push the narrative that Nex died by suicide. That was obvious, but will this be enough to combat the bad faith misinformation being spread all over the fucking place?

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
      14·
      9 months ago

      No. The misinformation has already done it’s damage and can’t truly be reversed. People who only looked at this in passing got their headline and are likely to pack this memory away as they first saw it. The others, well, even if there was no misinfo, they would have pretty much gone with a victim blaming narrative anyway, because they just hate them.

      The only hope now is that the correct story is what ends up being used by the authorities and anything to do with the case in regards to the legal industry.

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
        12·
        9 months ago

        Unless the federal government gets involved (which hopefully, maybe?) Ryan Walters has already been under federal investigation for all the (very likely) embezzling for seemingly ages and nothing has happened there. Oklahoma is corrupt at its core and if it’s left up to Oklahomans there will be no justice.

        Idk, it’s just pretty terrifying as a transgender Oklahoman that if I’m murdered when I’m driving through a small town the cops would effortlessly be able to cover it up and come up with a story so that redditors could pick over my gender identity.

        • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          I didn’t consider the possibility of walters being in trouble. I meant the case of the dead teenager and who killed them.

          • andros_rex@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            My point with Walters is more that one can flagrantly violate the law in Oklahoma if they are the “right kind” of person. I’m not local to Owasso, but there’s a lot of folks who are pretty sure that cop kids where involved.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      131·
      9 months ago

      I’m not quite sure why they think him dying by suicide because of the fight is any better.