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.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.