re: Non-binary student, 16, dies after girls ‘beat her head across the floor’ in bathroom

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Why? There is not even a far fetched reason that would justify getting beat to death in a school bathroom because you looked or acted different.

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By the deceased person's own admission, she was attacked because she poured water on them, not because she "looked or acted different."

*Assuming these text messages are legit. This is a very recent story and it's easy to fake text screenshots, so I'm not convinced yet.

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And standing up for oneself by pouring water on them? While not advisable as an effective retribution, dont we encourage standing up for ones self?

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If the exchange was previously verbal and the deceased person was the one to escalate it to a physical altercation by throwing water on the other people, she bears some responsibility for that in my personal, not legal, opinion. I haven't checked Oklahoma laws on this so that's just my personal opinion of a basic common sense understanding that if I throw water on someone, I'd expect them to physically retaliate. Still doesn't justify being beat to death, as I previously stated.