Metropolis has one of the least corrupt police departments in the DCU, because some sneaky bastard reporter who looks like a nerdy lumberjack keeps sniffing out and exposing all the racists in the department. (This is because Superman, while not always listening, can always hear when one of them to start saying racist things and once he does he immediately starts investigating as Clark.)
Who watches the watchers? Some hulking bespectacled doofus, apparently.
Imagine being at a peaceful political protest in Metropolis and the cops are showing up in full body armor and then Superman arrives, and youâre like, oh, shit, hes here to break up the protest but then he lands and joins it??? And he keeps lecturing the cops?
âThese people have the right to free assembly!â he says while brandishing a copy of the Metropolis Legal Code. Youâre not sure where he got it. He wasnât carrying it when he landed, heâs got no pocketsâwas he storing it up his butt?
One of the cops shoots a tear gas canister into the crowd and you have a moment of fear before confusedly worrying whether it would even effect Superman
Turns out it doesnât, because the canister lands and he just. Eats all the tear gas.
He keeps calling out individual cops by name. âHey Ken! Does your mother know youâre shooting at unarmed children? Should I tell her next time I see her at Bibboâs?â
Some brave yet dickish reporter asks him whether his mother knows heâs advocating against rule of law and he just smiles that goofy, inviting smile of his and goes âmy mom was arrested 12 times back in the late 70s. She thinks I should be throwing punches.â
THIS IS ALL CANON
