A medical examiner has determined that the death of an Oklahoma “nonbinary” teenager named Nex Benedict, which blasted into a national news story after liberal media jumped to the conclusion that the teen died from brain trauma caused by bullying, actually passed away as a result of an intentional drug overdose. You know what they say about making assumptions, right? Too bad the left didn’t get that memo.
Or maybe they did and they just don’t care?
After all, journalism is dead. All that matters now is crafting the narrative that forces people to be on your side of the issue or else risk being the “bad guy.”
Check out further details from the Daily Wire:
In a statement, the Owasso Police Department said it waited to release the cause of death until the toxicology report was completed, KJRH reported. That toxicology report indicates that Benedict died by suicide, the result of an overdose of Diphenhydramine and Fluoxetine, or, Benadryl and Prozac.
“From the beginning of this investigation, Owasso Police observed many indications that this death was the result of suicide,” the police statement went on to say. “However, investigators did not wish to confirm that information without the final results being presented by the Oklahoma Medical Examiners Office.”
The original narrative surrounding Benedict’s death was that the teen died as a result of a beating from three girls who had been bullying Benedict and Benedict’s friends. Teen Vogue reported when the story broke that “a source who claimed to be the mother of Benedict’s best friend told a local outlet the cause of death was ‘complications from brain trauma,’ and that ‘three older girls were beating the victim and her daughter in the girl’s bathroom.’”
This same anonymous source told the outlet that Benedict needed help walking to the nurses’ station after the fight and that Benedict texted a family member saying the teen “got jumped at school 3 on 1 had to go to the ER.” Benedict also claimed the girls “had been bullying me and my friends and I got tired of it so I poured some water on them and all 3 came after me. School did not report to the police and is probably getting sued.”
Several other major media outlets picked up the narrative thread and also pointed fingers at a law in the state of Oklahoma that requires all students to use the bathroom of their biological sex as being responsible for the teen’s death because it allegedly encouraged bullying.
The truth of the situation was vastly different than the propaganda that was shoveled down onto the American people. Benedict went on to speak with a police officer while the hospital without a single visible injury, that the three girls did not actually start the fight.
“They said something like ‘why do they laugh like that,’ and they were talking about us, in front of us,” Benedict said to police officer Caleb Thompson, making a reference to the other girls involved in the fight. “So, I went up and poured water on them and all three of them came at me.”
Benedict’s mother told the officer that the three girls had bullied Benedict and the teen’s friends previously, even claiming the girls had thrown things at them. But the actual encounter that took place the day before Benedict died involved Benedict instigating the fight. Throughout the interview, Benedict’s mother refers to her daughter using female pronouns.
Thompson then told Nex that because of this fact, Benedict could end up facing assault charges.
“You got freedom of speech,” Thompson went on to say to Benedict and Benedict’s mother, making another reference to the other teen girls. “The minute you threw water on them you made the first jab. It may not go the direction you want it to go.”
“Running the mouth is freedom of speech, unfortunately,” the officer continued. “You can say mean, hurtful things all day long and you gotta let it roll off your shoulder.”
Benedict soon returned home from the hospital, however, the following day, Benedict’s mother phoned 911 and reported the teen’s breathing was shallow. Benedict passed away not long after, due to the drug overdose, not because of being beaten up.
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters previously called out the media’s portrayal of Benedict’s tragic death.
“I think it’s terrible that we’ve had some radical leftists who decided to run with a political agenda and try to weave a narrative that hasn’t been true,” Walters said to the New York Times back in February. “You’ve taken a tragedy, and you’ve had some folks try to exploit it for political gain.”
“We’ve been told death wasn’t directly related to the fight at school,” he said.
The same New York Times article, several paragraphs above the claims by Walters, suggests that her death was related to the fight the day before, referring to “the death earlier this month of a 16-year-old nonbinary student a day after an altercation in a high school girls’ bathroom.”
This was a tragic incident that could have been avoided had Benedict been treated for the disorder the teen suffered from, but instead the whole situation was used for political gain by leftist media. Awful.