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.

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    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?

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      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.

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        8 months ago

        Unless the federal government gets involved (which hopefully, maybe?) Ryan Walters is already been under federal investigation for all the (very likely) embezzling. Oklahoma is corrupt at its core and if it’s left up to Oklahomans there will be no justice.

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

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            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.

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