Phoenix police had to apologize earlier this month after Talan’s parents Becky and Travis Renner received special valet parking services from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office cops.

A deputy was seen pulling the millionaire gym owners’ white Tesla Model X into a private car park so they could avoid running a gauntlet of journalists.

Authorities took months to name the suspects, with enraged locals who demanded justice and claimed the young boys’ powerful families were preventing justice from being served.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      So are we in the rest of the AZ counties.

      And this is after they got rid of the Fuckstick Arpaio back in 2017 and have at least had Democratic Sheriff’s since. Although, to be fair to him, Skinner was just elected this year. Not an excuse, but his predecessor was there since 2017. And was Sheriff at the time this happened.

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        FYI Sheriff Skinner is a DINO. There is a rule that says an appointed sheriff has to be the same party as the person they are replacing. Skinner changed parties so he would be eligible.

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          That’s only if they’re filling in the rest of the term. I don’t know if that’s what happened but I did want to clarify that Arizona doesn’t tie voter’s hands. Only the executive.

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            It is. Skinner was appointed last February, and changed his party affiliation to Dem the day after his predecessor sheriff Penzone said he would quit.

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        have at least had Democratic Sheriff’s since

        As a Houston resident with a “democrat” at the mayoral level and in a number of police offices, I can’t tell you how little this changes things. These people wear the (D) name badge to win the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” demographic, then run as far to the right as our fascist state government allows.

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    Yawn

    Oh look, another sociopath murderer whose out of touch rich parents will bail out and then will give him a free ride through a pay-to-win degree at an ivy league school catapulting him into a useless but well-titled corporate position so we can have yet another narcissistic [choose one or more: pedophile/rapist/murderer] in a position of power.

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      Capitalism is a predatory system. Wealth is a factor in why humans either have children or don’t.

      We are breeding paycthopaths to the detriment of society.

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      If this gets buried then we’ve finally made the complete jump. We have always had a double standard but catching an elite like this used to mean they’d be sentenced as harshly as the rest of us. The jump by the by, is from a wealthy capitalist elite to an actual aristocracy.

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    This is fuckin tragic. I didn’t need to read that. I hope justice is served albeit delayed at this point. This kid deserves time for violently attacking another kid, bragging about it, and trying to get away with no consequences. Yes he’s young, but not too young to pay for this kind of crime.

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      That’s not normal behaviour. Kid needs to be tried as an adult and locked up for life. Then mental health evaluation consistently with a chance to be released after 25 years with good behaviour.

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        I’d say go a step further. He took an innocent life knowingly and showed complete lack of remorse, why should his life continue? Is there really a benefit to society in the slightest to allow him to continue existing?

        Just give him the death sentence and let his parents cope with the fact they failed at raising a child so badly that it had to be put down.

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          No, because the death penalty shouldn’t exist. But he should absolutely get 20 to life with parole dependent on mental health evaluation. Just like any other 17 year old who did this.

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          Disregarding the general braindead nature of this take, if anything the parents should be sentenced to death for creating this human and allowing him to turn out this way.

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    Dude should be in prison for murder. Bet you only see him running around the north side suburbs with his stupid goon squad.

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    Dad’s obviously a piece of shit judging from the smirk in the mugshot. My old man wouldn’t the slightest bit thrilled to be involved with the police because me and my crew of cowards beat a smaller, weaker kid to death. Certainly not if I were dumb enough to try humble bragging about it on social media.

    Family wealth and both kids are violent criminals, one who simulate rape on someone one just beat unconscious, makes you wonder about the home life eh?

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    Travis Renner and his business partner reportedly plotted to bring Talan to a cabin until the injuries he sustained while handing out the beating healed. Detectives recorded that Renner’s family had ‘financial means to aid in fleeing to Mexico’ and he was taken out of the Phoenix area after the attack on Preston.

    Phoenix police had to apologize earlier this month after Talan’s parents Becky and Travis Renner received special valet parking services from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office cops.

    A deputy was seen pulling the millionaire gym owners’ white Tesla Model X into a private car park so they could avoid running a gauntlet of journalists.

    Authorities took months to name the suspects, with enraged locals who demanded justice and claimed the young boys’ powerful families were preventing justice from being served.

    Well well.

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    Why do I insist on reading things that make me angry first thing in the morning…

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    Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

    Well There’s Your Problem.

    They’re constantly in the running for “Most corrupt sheriff’s office in the country”. And this is a country awash in truly awful sheriff’s offices.

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      They use the acronym of RMA on their logo. My brain expanded that automatically to ‘Return Merchandise Authorization.’ Their logo literally made me cringe, as the standard RMA process is horrific. As bad as the standard RMA process is, the owner of this particular RMA is very clearly worse, so the cringe-effect was warranted. Shitstains of an existence, they are.