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.

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Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office

really tired of hearing about these shitbags…

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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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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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At least they’re…consistent?

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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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“millionaire gym owners’ son” my experience with rich kids is that they are cunts. Almost 100% of the time.

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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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Fire the whole police department too

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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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    99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

    When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

    When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

    When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

    Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

    The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

    All this is a path to a police state.

    In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

    Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

    That’s the solution.

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