An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide.

Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said in a statement that after reviewing the investigation by the Owasso Police Department, he agreed with an assessment from detectives that the fight between the teen and three girls was an “instance of mutual combat” and that charges were not warranted.

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    Is this not the teen who was assaulted in a restroom, received a head trauma as a result, was given half assed medical care, then died like 14 hours later? How is that suicide?

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    I would point out that those three girls have to live with what they did for life but given that they were just following their religion I doubt they will feel anything except for joy.

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    Americans please, I’m begging you, if you actually care about this, go organise a protest this should be on the level of the George Floyd protests.

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    Steve Kunzweiler

    From Wikipedia:

    “Kunzweiler and his wife, Dr. Christine Kunzweiler, have three daughters. In September 2022, a daughter with mental illness stabbed Kunzweiler multiple times but he managed to survive.[57] He is mentioned in the podcast Panic Button: The April Wilkens Case as having confronted a Tulsa social worker about how domestic violence advocates need to get survivors to testify, otherwise they are not really being abused.”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kunzweiler

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    But if I got into a fight with another adult and killed them I could and would be charged with at least manslaughter.

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    Of course no charges were filed. Conservatives proactively encourage this kind of murder. They cheer and giggle gleefully when an LGBTQ person is murdered. This is just who conservatives are at their core.

    Historically, an infestation of conservatism has never been cured by pacifism.

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    I looked into mutual combat a while back, it’s not actually a legal thing. Rather it’s a consequence of it being really hard to prosecute people for fighting when both parties willingly participated.

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      It can be explicitly legalized. This is from Texas:

      CONSENT AS DEFENSE TO ASSAULTIVE CONDUCT. (a) The victim’s effective consent or the actor’s reasonable belief that the victim consented to the actor’s conduct is a defense to prosecution