Newy-released video, Popular Information interview call into question official statements on Nex Benedict’s death
Nex Benedict Sue Benedict, in an interview for the news site Popular Information, has called the Owasso Police Department’s Feb.
21 statement regarding the death of her child, Nex Benedict, “a big cover” released simply as “something to calm the people.” And just-released video footage from school surveillance cameras and from a police body cam combined with 9-1-1 calls appear to point to what the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation calls a “cascade of failures [by] school, local government and law enforcement” officials.
Non-binary 16-year-old Nex Benedict died Feb. 8, a day after being beaten by three other students in a bathroom at Owasso High School.
But it wasn’t until Feb. 20 when the website Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents reported on the incident that Nex’s death begin gaining wide attention.
