Under the Desk News on the Killing of Nex Benedict
If you aren’t already following Under The Desk News on Instagram or Tik Tok, I highly recommend that you do.
V Spehar (they/them) does an excellent job providing a unique perspective the big news stories of the day, and they have been exceptionally good in making sense of the Nex Benedict killing at Owasso High School in Owasso, Oklahoma.
(Their website is called “Under the Desk News because they frequently record videos literally from under a desk).
If you haven’t been following this story, Nex Benedict was a nonbinary teenager who had been bullied for several weeks, a situation which turned violent on February 7, leading to their tragic death from a brutal beating.
The Owasso Police initially said that Nex’s death was not from trauma, though they have since clarified that this was a preliminary judgment and the investigation is ongoing.
V sorts it all out here.
The full video of the resource officer body cam footage mentioned in V’s report is here (embedding has been disabled for this video).
The first call from Nex’s mother is at the beginning of the video below, and the 911 call is at the 9:07 mark (TRIGGER WARNING: Some may find this disturbing).