What Next - What Happened to Nex Benedict?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Sixteen-year-old Nex Benedict died one day after being beaten in an Oklahoma high school bathroom. His death has drawn attention to the more-than 50 bills that have been introduced in the state legislature targeting queer and trans people.
Guest: Jo Yurcaba, reporter for NBC Out.
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| 0:00.0 | Three weeks ago, a police officer walked into a hospital in Owassa, Oklahoma and kept his body cam rolling. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, stranger. and kept his body cam rolling. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, stranger? |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, we see Watson. |
| 0:16.0 | This cop was there to figure out why a 16 year old kid named Next Benedict |
| 0:21.0 | was lying in intake, complaining about head pain. |
| 0:24.0 | So what happened today? |
| 0:26.0 | Tell me about it. |
| 0:28.0 | What happened? |
| 0:29.0 | Next tells the officer, I just got jumped. |
| 0:33.2 | The way next tells it, it went down like this. |
| 0:40.1 | Some kids didn't like the way next dressed, didn't like the way necks laughed, |
| 0:44.5 | and they wouldn't quit. |
| 0:46.0 | So, necks emptied a water bottle on their heads. |
| 0:50.1 | That's when these other kids got violent. |
| 0:52.8 | Okay. |
| 0:54.0 | Then at that point, what happened? |
| 0:56.0 | Uh, they came at me, they grabbed out of my hair, |
| 1:01.0 | I grabbed on them, I threw one of them into a paper towel dispenser, and then they |
| 1:06.2 | got my legs out from under me and got me on the ground, started being the shit out of me. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay. |
| 1:11.0 | And then my friends trying to jump in now. Okay. to all that. His mom, who's sitting in the room with him, addresses him as she, the |
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