Mind you, I have been informed Chloe/Puddinghead isn’t evil but I’ve been riding hard my theory that the next antagonist after Joyce’s Church and Blaine will be the Dean.
Listen, whether the school supports this or not, the police have already shown they have enough corruption in thos prescient to go out for some payback after so many of them got beat up. Look at the mark on the officer’s cheek in the first panel. These guys know Amber O’Malley is PROBABLY Amazi-Girl even if Blaine wouldn’t confirm it before he “suicided”. Sarah is going to have words with her boyfriend about the cops coming into her room, and if the Dean really is the bad guy her scholarship could be revoked. BUT HEY, maybe Carla’s parents will take their money out of this war and put it towards their daughter’s peers.
Evil or not, I’m not sure what’s supposed to be going on here. Are we supposed to accept at face value that they don’t have a warrant and they’re just here for revenge?
But why? That makes no sense. If they’ve got a reason to come here looking for AG to get revenge, there isn’t a judge in the country that wouldn’t give them a warrant. And then they could beat her up for resisting arrest. There’s no reason to be operating without the cover of law here.
I mean there’s plenty of RL cops who do stupid stuff because of lack of patience or disrespect for procedure. The endless amounts of lack of read rights, turned off bodycams, warrantless actions, and lying about warrants proves so.
Would they be able to get a warrant without a suspect, though? That would require a warrant or warrants to search every residence in the wing, including many people who aren’t suspected of any crime. I won’t say that it wouldn’t happen. I’m not well versed enough in law enforcement procedures. But i think it’s pretty reasonable to think that the cops might skip a warrant if they don’t think they can get one. So they are going to make a show of force in common areas and attempt to menace a bunch of women into voluntarily allowing a search of their rooms. And if one of those women happens to unknowingly be AG’s roommate, so much the better.
The same school that has two members of its faculty (Leslie and Robin, the latter being an actual professor) currently in custody? I don’t think they be doing much to protect students…
OTOH, think they’d want to tread softly in this dorm.
There’s a billionaire’s daughter, the sister of a former member of Congress and the dean’s ex’s kids. People with connections and money for lawyers.
I really want to say that Sal is probably more thorough about hiding criminal evidence than that, but a full police sweep might not be something she was expecting
I just had an evil thought. Dorothy was working on AG’s costume, so they’ll find stuff in there. Becky’s haircut now makes her look enough like AG that they’ll put out a manhunt for her.
I knew a girl who did this — who jumped out a high up window to escape police torture. It was in Prague, so they called her the “Praha praha fenstersturz”: the fourth defenestration of Prague. It didn’t work, though. She was so broken, lying on the ground, that the police just came and picked her up and took her back into custory. )-:
I don’t recall her name. Wish I did. She was an amazing political cartoonist. “An age ago…”
Why does Ruth hate Bulmeria? The only reason she could possibly object to the police in the dorm is due to longstanding anti-Bulmerianism. Which of course is the motivation of the protestors.
(Its sad sarcasm barely feels like a defense to the current administration)
Not in any direct causal sense. They are tangentially connected but mostly in the sense that the cheating happened during the event that this is in response to
AG escalated to brawling with the police because Dorothy ran back into the protest, causing Joyce to linger and almost get arrested.
Granted, we don’t know whether she would have brawled with them due to some other offense if the first one hadn’t happened, and Dorothy running back into the protest BECAUSE of unrequited love for Joyce might require a bit of reading between the lines and your mileage might vary, but I’m going to call it a causal connection. Because doing so lets me be silly.
Arguably, the near arrest happened because she’d stopped just outside, looking after her friend who had just run back in. That’s not justified, but it’s also not quite just a promising target – lots of other people still walking out and no sign they were all be grabbed.
And honestly, the cop was right. She was gonna run back in after Dorothy regardless.
Once AG started brawling with cops, she did rescue others, but that was the inciting incident and it’s not clear if she would have jumped in otherwise.
If she wasn’t planning to fight cops, what was she doing there in costume in the first place? I don’t buy this ‘everything is Joyrothy’s fault’ interpretation of events.
If it wouldn’t have been cheating, would Dorothy have been anguished enough about her perceived unrequited feelings for Joyce? I think very possibly, from my experience of falling for a “straight” girl (and also an actually straight girl). But the yearning was definitely increased by seeing Joyce with someone else.
tbf, consequences falling far, far away from their precipitating actions is also the way of the fickle not-Willis god, the one that Becky is currently on the outs with
Unless Danny dobbed Joyce and Dorothy in to the cops as retribution for breaking Joe’s heart, then no. This is not Joe and Walky’s friends treating JoyDot’s infidelity like it matters. Of course this probably WILL satisfy the separate but adjacent complaint that JoyDot’s honeymoon is boring and has gone on too long.
I can’t relate to either argument, but I’m glad they’ve got something to sink their teeth into now.
The “just searching closets” cop is out of luck, the last two stragglers came out two days ago. Also he looks like the unholy spawn of Toedad and Joedad; you’re welcome for that mental image in advance
Fourth amendment violations are actually something cops can and will absolutely get in trouble for. Judges do not like their sphere of influence being infringed upon
Hard to do in the moment though. There’s a saying that you may beat the charges but you can’t beat the ride. In the same way a judge isn’t going to stop whatever they’re planning for Amazi-Girl.
Well, from what was seen in RL news so far, it doesn’t matter much what judges think in this country. Or what the law says, for that matter. As is custom for fash regimes. It’s just a matter of how dystopian close to reality or utopian fantasy this comic wants to be.
To legally collect evidence from a dorm room, they absolutely need a warrant (or permission to enter from a resident of that room, or exigent circumstances to enter). The university, like a landlord or a hotel, can give cops permission to search common areas, but not your room.
Of course for this to matter, A: you have to know that, and B: you have to convince the judge to believe you over the cops.
Thing is, if they’ve got enough evidence to decide to go search Amber’s room, they’ve got enough evidence to get a warrant. It’s not like any judge is going to refuse a warrant to apprehend the vigilante who assaulted multiple cops.
In a sense, but not in this sense. The police themselves can be viewed as a criminal organization, but in this context we know that some are on the take from the mob. That’s rarer than it used to be, from what I know.
Naive if you think cops used to be better.
Regardless, the distinction here is whether this is just normal cop shit or whether they’re working for Asher’s family here.
in this case while they’re being bad cops they do have a valid legal justification for chasing down Amazi-Girl because she was expressly punching and beating up cops during the protest. Should they have been riot controling the protest? No. But the case still stands that Amber did actually do something illegal enough that they can justify a warrant to go after her. Hence why they are expressly seeking her instead of just targeting random people at the protest
So I’m assuming this means the cops are actually looking for Amazi-Girl’s costume, which makes me wonder how they came to suspect she might be in this particular residence hall. I forget how many other students know that Amber is Amazi-Girl, but I thought it was just some of her friends, who wouldn’t be likely to rat her out to the cops. I hope she doesn’t get caught or hurt more than she already is.
Back when Amber/AG had her first encounter with Sal, she was seen (and documented) running out of this specific building. It’s how Dorothy found her and later discovered her identity.
But it’s well-known that Amazi-Girl doesn’t live here, as evidenced by her catch-phrase: “I Don’t Live Here!™”
Are you trying to tell me that people doubted Amazi-Girl?
Y’know this is why Antifa goes for plain black outfits, a lot harder to identify than the bright yellow, monogramed superhero suit that probably also cost a lot of money to make (another reason you go for cheap, easily disposable piece of clothes). I’m honestly surprised Amber never got caught before, though I’ve always thought the Amazi-girl stuff was some of the most tonally inconsistent parts of the comic.
Does it really? For me it always clashed with the more grounded reality of the comic, like how the Amber/Amazi-girl split is sometimes played as legitimate mental illness and other times is basically just Two-Face comic book mental illness. It just feels like a bad holdover from Shortpacked, putting it into the real world setting makes it feel less like superhero stuff and more like uncomfortable vigilante justice.
It doesn’t work for all the readers tonally obviously, but it’s established that within universe, the superhero logic works. People don’t recognize Amber. Blaine getting a costume made him both more of a threat and unrecognizable. They’re capable of unrealistic feats. Costumes work. In multiple ways.
I don’t think she punched cops before the protest, so I don’t think the cops cared as much about the random vigilante beating up people they probably also wanted to bust the heads of
Please don’t let this be the start of several death flags for Amber, I kind of like her, and for anyone who wants to ask where Ruth’s spine is here a gentle reminder, these are Police in the United States, In a Red State, they will probably brutalize or shoot you for annoying them.
If they have a warrant, they don’t have to show it to you right away if you ask about it. If they think there’s a risk to public safety or a risk that evidence might be destroyed, they can delay confirming the existence of a warrant.
Additionally, those same excuses can be used to let them conduct a search without waiting for a warrant to be signed. All they had to do was claim waiting for a warrant would give someone time to destroy evidence or declare Amazigirl a threat to public saftey.
Beyond that, kind of surprised something like this hasn’t happened sooner. But I guess they’re taking it personally now that she’s directly attacked the police.
Because, assuming what one person said above is correct, they’d have to get hundreds upon hundreds of warrants for every dorm room. I kind of thought they’d only need to get the one warrant for the whole building though, and that warrant would be given to Puddinghead not Ruth.
Not saying they’d be justified for committing a constitutional violation, just that that’s the reason they’d be lazy+corrupt and not do things the right way.
It’s possible. I’m not at all clear on what the law is for searching dorms en masse. If they’re just going to break down doors and search all the rooms without warrants that they actually need, they’re going to be in a lot of trouble.
There are people on this floor who can bring significant resources to bear – most notably Carla’s parents.
Even if they needed only one warrant and that would go to Chloe (or someone higher up), you’d think they’d need someone on the scene to show they had the correct legal permissions.
Theres zero reason why they would not have a warrant. Everything that the cops did followed the letter of the law.
When the campus changed its bylaws the protesters became trespassers. They gave advanced notice of when the meadow would be cleared, prepared to clear it in plain sight, and used nonlethal force to do so.
The sniper, and the excess of force used, can be attributed to rumors that some of the protesters were armed and dangerous.
Amazi-Girl’s presence and physical assault of police officers in the course of their duty retroactively justifies any argument about how real said rumors were: they were assaulted by a masked resistence; therefore, it was prudent to be prepared.
Amazi-Girl has been reported on often. It is clear that she is a student, and likely a resident of this hall. If felony assault charges are leveled – which I’m sure they would be – theres not a judge on earth who wouldn’t sign a warrant to search. And showing up *without* a warrant is beyond stupid. It means that you literally cannot use any of that information in the future.
But no, this is DoA, so they have have to be evil corrupt cops at every level, and be breaking the rules even now, instead of just using the full power of the system in a corrupt way.
Snipers at protests are generally justified as “in case of attacks on the gathering, like any other mass event”, not for worries about the protesters being armed and dangerous. You can argue whether that’s true or not, but snipers do tend to be used at a lot of mass events, whether the cops want to intimidate the crowd or not. Obviously they do serve the purpose of intimidation at protests.
And yeah, things got real serious legally when AG attacked cops, however justified we think it was.
I mean they say that but they’re absolutely not given the police coddled the people who actually did attack protestors and famously protected the one who murdered two.
Okay I know amber is panicking here but this seems like a pretty terrible place to hide???? I mean standing like that people who see you are gonna think your trying to hurl yourself off, your gonna draw a crowd, if your goal is not to be noticed this is the absolute worst place you could be
Maybe it’s just to lessen the drawing workload but none of the cops are carrying guns in today’s and yesterday’s strip. (Possible) Fun Fact: the shorter brown hair cop wears a load strap for a left-handed rig. most of the others are right-handed because they’re gesturing and communicating with the left hands. Training says don’t tie up the weapons hand.
Does it matter? No, but I’m sitting on the edge of my seat with spidey sense atiingling. weird the things that get noticed.
Shit, very worried about Amber, whether it’s getting caught by the cops or falling from dizziness and breaking her head. We wouldn’t get that blatant a repeat of Mike, would we?
I’m suddenly thinking that we haven’t seen Amber in any preview panels for ages, and it’s not making me feel better.
Malala knows the drill: in South Hemisphere, what this cop mean was: “Just looking for some personal to take them with us; to torture them, make them confess whatever we want and, after all, make them disappear”
If they know Amber is AG, they’ve got her dead to rights. They can take her openly and legally and also beat her up for resisting arrest.
If they don’t, why are they here? Grabbing some random college kid and torturing them until they confess doesn’t get them anything.
When I hear about someone being arrested on a warrant I often joke to myself they were arrested for having been in Warrant. It’s probably a crime someplace to have been in Warrant.
I was thinking that it might end up being in Mary’s closet, but for more nasty reasons. I could see Carla sneaking a fake one into Mary’s closet to get her in trouble.
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😖😖😖😖😖😖
*plays “Rain” from Cowboy Bebop on hacked muzak*
Oooof
The school should sue
Damn, imagine a university that sided with students rather than the police in this kind of situation!
The school is probably behind this.
Mind you, I have been informed Chloe/Puddinghead isn’t evil but I’ve been riding hard my theory that the next antagonist after Joyce’s Church and Blaine will be the Dean.
Listen, whether the school supports this or not, the police have already shown they have enough corruption in thos prescient to go out for some payback after so many of them got beat up. Look at the mark on the officer’s cheek in the first panel. These guys know Amber O’Malley is PROBABLY Amazi-Girl even if Blaine wouldn’t confirm it before he “suicided”. Sarah is going to have words with her boyfriend about the cops coming into her room, and if the Dean really is the bad guy her scholarship could be revoked. BUT HEY, maybe Carla’s parents will take their money out of this war and put it towards their daughter’s peers.
Evil or not, I’m not sure what’s supposed to be going on here. Are we supposed to accept at face value that they don’t have a warrant and they’re just here for revenge?
But why? That makes no sense. If they’ve got a reason to come here looking for AG to get revenge, there isn’t a judge in the country that wouldn’t give them a warrant. And then they could beat her up for resisting arrest. There’s no reason to be operating without the cover of law here.
My assumption is that they intend to just BS their way into arresting Amber.
Probably with the school’s permission.
But why?
Any judge would give them a warrant, so why BS?
I mean there’s plenty of RL cops who do stupid stuff because of lack of patience or disrespect for procedure. The endless amounts of lack of read rights, turned off bodycams, warrantless actions, and lying about warrants proves so.
Sure, but most of that is either spur of the moment or when they’re really trying to get away with something.
Rather than a big planned operation that they could easily get a warrant for. Unless they can’t for some reason I don’t see yet.
Would they be able to get a warrant without a suspect, though? That would require a warrant or warrants to search every residence in the wing, including many people who aren’t suspected of any crime. I won’t say that it wouldn’t happen. I’m not well versed enough in law enforcement procedures. But i think it’s pretty reasonable to think that the cops might skip a warrant if they don’t think they can get one. So they are going to make a show of force in common areas and attempt to menace a bunch of women into voluntarily allowing a search of their rooms. And if one of those women happens to unknowingly be AG’s roommate, so much the better.
Maybe. But if they’re just trying to intimidate, they’re a lot less of a threat for actually finding anything than we’re being led to believe.
That’s probably true, but Amber/AmaziGirl have taken the bait if it is indeed that.
i mean, weren’t some ppl on the school staff pro blumeria/help funding ruttech to begin with? versus individual students suing the school
The same school that has two members of its faculty (Leslie and Robin, the latter being an actual professor) currently in custody? I don’t think they be doing much to protect students…
OTOH, think they’d want to tread softly in this dorm.
There’s a billionaire’s daughter, the sister of a former member of Congress and the dean’s ex’s kids. People with connections and money for lawyers.
…dammit, Amber, did you empty your closet first?
Unless she managed to quickly stick all her amazigear in her pajama pockets? No she did not.
Sal hid the Amazi-Gear after bringing her back from the doc.
At least according to Dina.
Hopefully she did it well and they don’t find it in her room either.
Considering Sal’s previous run ins with police and absolute distrust of them?
That costume ain’t getting found by even the FBI
Billifer is going to find it.
Sal hid her paraphernalia. How they were hidden, and whether clues were left behind, we don’t know.
Sal took care of Amazi-Girl’s stuff.
Hopefully she didn’t just stick it in her closet.
they find it in Sal’s closet and arrest her as Amazi-girl, and Billie takes this as confirmation for her assumption that Sal is Amazi-girl.
This has been my creeping feeling for the past… 6 months? Idk how time works
I really want to say that Sal is probably more thorough about hiding criminal evidence than that, but a full police sweep might not be something she was expecting
Dina said Sal has hidden Amber’s paraphernalia after bringing her back from the kitchen doctor.
Sal??????
….
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! 😭😭😭
It’s okay. She put it all in Danny’s closet.
– Caucasian
– Brunette
– Can plausibly perform sex acts while upside-down
Danny’s a baaad egg.
I just had an evil thought. Dorothy was working on AG’s costume, so they’ll find stuff in there. Becky’s haircut now makes her look enough like AG that they’ll put out a manhunt for her.
AMBER YOU’RE NOT HEALTHY ENOUGH TO JUMP DOWN 3 FLOORS GIRL
That’s why she’s balancing on the windowsill.
While this is true, it is still better for her health than waiting around for the cops would be.
Though, if any of them are stationed outside and seeing this, it probably gives them a pretty good idea of who Amazi-Girl is.
I knew a girl who did this — who jumped out a high up window to escape police torture. It was in Prague, so they called her the “Praha praha fenstersturz”: the fourth defenestration of Prague. It didn’t work, though. She was so broken, lying on the ground, that the police just came and picked her up and took her back into custory. )-:
I don’t recall her name. Wish I did. She was an amazing political cartoonist. “An age ago…”
Hopefully she doesn’t, uh…
*Descending whistle*
*Splat*
Why does Ruth hate Bulmeria? The only reason she could possibly object to the police in the dorm is due to longstanding anti-Bulmerianism. Which of course is the motivation of the protestors.
(Its sad sarcasm barely feels like a defense to the current administration)
Why didn’t Ruth BETRAY the cops and TRAP them in the Hyperbolic Murder Cave? Is she stupid?
What if The Cops were Locked in the Time Chamber for millennia and betrayed? Full What-If Movie (runtime: 5 hours)
Calm down Amber, we’re your friends!
Ruth works for the EVIL university so she can’t be relied on. Perhaps the sinister Puddinghea….
Wait, dammit, I need to stop with the conspiracy theories here.
Maybe her new injuries will disguise her old injury. Opioid dosing is going to be off maybe.
oh… this is not going to be the “consequences” that people were clamoring for, huh
Well no, because at the risk of sounding like a broken record, none of this has to do with the cheating.
the true consequences is that I jammed my finger really hard now I can’t really bend the last knuckle. Dang it, Doyce!
Those devious fiends
Don’t forget, Amber’s blood cheated on her with that snow.
It actually does, but not enough for it to be the sort of consequences people want.
Not in any direct causal sense. They are tangentially connected but mostly in the sense that the cheating happened during the event that this is in response to
AG escalated to brawling with the police because Dorothy ran back into the protest, causing Joyce to linger and almost get arrested.
Granted, we don’t know whether she would have brawled with them due to some other offense if the first one hadn’t happened, and Dorothy running back into the protest BECAUSE of unrequited love for Joyce might require a bit of reading between the lines and your mileage might vary, but I’m going to call it a causal connection. Because doing so lets me be silly.
I went back and checked. To expand on that:
The near-arrest — https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/04-the-only-exception/cuffed/ — happened just because she was standing outside and looking back in (note the previous strip). Or possibly just because she looked like a promising target.
Also note https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/book-15/04-the-only-exception/detouring/ and the following strip; Dorothy and Joyce weren’t the only ones being rescued.
Arguably, the near arrest happened because she’d stopped just outside, looking after her friend who had just run back in. That’s not justified, but it’s also not quite just a promising target – lots of other people still walking out and no sign they were all be grabbed.
And honestly, the cop was right. She was gonna run back in after Dorothy regardless.
Once AG started brawling with cops, she did rescue others, but that was the inciting incident and it’s not clear if she would have jumped in otherwise.
If she wasn’t planning to fight cops, what was she doing there in costume in the first place? I don’t buy this ‘everything is Joyrothy’s fault’ interpretation of events.
Astariel: Lurking around in costume (usually on a rooftop) is kinda SOP for Amazi-girl, whether she plans on fighting cops or not.
If it wouldn’t have been cheating, would Dorothy have been anguished enough about her perceived unrequited feelings for Joyce? I think very possibly, from my experience of falling for a “straight” girl (and also an actually straight girl). But the yearning was definitely increased by seeing Joyce with someone else.
[monkey’s paw finger curls]
Everyone will suffer the consequences of Doyce except Dorothy and Joyce, such is the way of the fickle Willis god
I mean if you wanted to freeze them out of their extended friend group, this is probably the fastest way.
tbf, consequences falling far, far away from their precipitating actions is also the way of the fickle not-Willis god, the one that Becky is currently on the outs with
Willis is her god, looming over her in their drawing tablet like Bugs at the end of Duck Amuck.
Unless Danny dobbed Joyce and Dorothy in to the cops as retribution for breaking Joe’s heart, then no. This is not Joe and Walky’s friends treating JoyDot’s infidelity like it matters. Of course this probably WILL satisfy the separate but adjacent complaint that JoyDot’s honeymoon is boring and has gone on too long.
I can’t relate to either argument, but I’m glad they’ve got something to sink their teeth into now.
monkey pawn curled 1st and 3rd fingers, lefting the middle one for all of us…
Anything Sal can do, she can do better!
The “just searching closets” cop is out of luck, the last two stragglers came out two days ago. Also he looks like the unholy spawn of Toedad and Joedad; you’re welcome for that mental image in advance
“the last two stragglers came out two days ago”
You lack faith. There’s always more people that can come out of the closet. We’ll get trans Walkie and Sal/Amazi-Girl one day…
careful, we don’t want another mike incident
You might not be able to tell but the bald cop is very upset by the phrase “out of your hair”.
Yeah, and he might overcompensate with a truly cursed hairpiece. Upset him too much and there will be hell toupee.
Very nice.
Steven Spielberg beat him to the punch 40 years ago.
https://youtu.be/sZXE7oSJmF8
He also has a bandage.
Wonder how he got the injury?
Kicked to the face by a short, curvy superhero, is my guess.
Warrants? Due process? In this economy?
Still need a warrent
Who’s going to stop them?
Quick, call the cops on them.
Fourth amendment violations are actually something cops can and will absolutely get in trouble for. Judges do not like their sphere of influence being infringed upon
Hard to do in the moment though. There’s a saying that you may beat the charges but you can’t beat the ride. In the same way a judge isn’t going to stop whatever they’re planning for Amazi-Girl.
ah yes because they face consequences for breaking the rules soooooo muuuuuuuuuch
Even assuming they actually were punished, it isn’t going to stop them from killing Amber first
Well, from what was seen in RL news so far, it doesn’t matter much what judges think in this country. Or what the law says, for that matter. As is custom for fash regimes. It’s just a matter of how dystopian close to reality or utopian fantasy this comic wants to be.
Yelling at them, filming them, demanding names, etc would certainly help.
That’s what she’s doing.
The door locks, unless the university let them in. In which case they probably don’t need a warrant, but you’d think Ruth would already know.
I assume they would have told as few people as possible so word of the raid doesn’t leak. (It did anyway, but…)
Maybe Chloe knew, as a full-time staff member and employee of the school, but they probably wouldn’t tell the student employees (Asma, the RAs, etc).
To legally collect evidence from a dorm room, they absolutely need a warrant (or permission to enter from a resident of that room, or exigent circumstances to enter). The university, like a landlord or a hotel, can give cops permission to search common areas, but not your room.
Of course for this to matter, A: you have to know that, and B: you have to convince the judge to believe you over the cops.
Thing is, if they’ve got enough evidence to decide to go search Amber’s room, they’ve got enough evidence to get a warrant. It’s not like any judge is going to refuse a warrant to apprehend the vigilante who assaulted multiple cops.
The outside doors are locked, but only at night.
Plenty of people wander into the dorms.
On the room doors. Most of the students aren’t home right now to open them even if they wanted to, it’s the middle of the day.
“Don’t need one when the university says that we have to end the evil terrorist cell of superheroes who hate Bulmeria here.”
But all her parts aren’t how they should be. She’s gonna get hurt more.
Do we know whether these are dissent-crackdown cops or organised crime cops?
I mean, either way they’re looking for Amazi-Girl, but the question is for what purpose.
Probably both
All cops are organized crime cops.
this
In a sense, but not in this sense. The police themselves can be viewed as a criminal organization, but in this context we know that some are on the take from the mob. That’s rarer than it used to be, from what I know.
Rarer only in the sense that the police are a mob so they can’t go around paling it up with rival gangs.
Naive if you think cops used to be better.
Regardless, the distinction here is whether this is just normal cop shit or whether they’re working for Asher’s family here.
Is that an either-or question? Because I feel like that was an either-or question and that it shouldn’t have been an either-or question.
in this case while they’re being bad cops they do have a valid legal justification for chasing down Amazi-Girl because she was expressly punching and beating up cops during the protest. Should they have been riot controling the protest? No. But the case still stands that Amber did actually do something illegal enough that they can justify a warrant to go after her. Hence why they are expressly seeking her instead of just targeting random people at the protest
None of them are Officer Bradford (the guy who capped Blaine); they’re all too young and he has a tag.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/lester/
If they only knew (or suspected) AG’s identity because of mob information, that could be a reason they apparently didn’t try to get a warrant.
Searching Closets sounds like definite confirmation they’re looking for AG
Searching Closets sounds like my 1980s art-rock band.
Not Becky, at least. Her closet was annihilated.
So I’m assuming this means the cops are actually looking for Amazi-Girl’s costume, which makes me wonder how they came to suspect she might be in this particular residence hall. I forget how many other students know that Amber is Amazi-Girl, but I thought it was just some of her friends, who wouldn’t be likely to rat her out to the cops. I hope she doesn’t get caught or hurt more than she already is.
Back when Amber/AG had her first encounter with Sal, she was seen (and documented) running out of this specific building. It’s how Dorothy found her and later discovered her identity.
Blaine told the cops his daughter was Amazi-Girl.
Did not. He specifically told the cop who shot him that she was not.
But then made it plausible by intimating that they could probably pin it on her anyway.
And then Blaine told the cops his daughter wasn’t Amazi-Girl, and then Blaine told the cops “Aaarrrrrrghllb” when they shot him, so who knows
And the cop who processed Blaine to a permanent end is on the take from Asher’s family, so who knows how much of that ended up in the report anyways
But it’s well-known that Amazi-Girl doesn’t live here, as evidenced by her catch-phrase: “I Don’t Live Here!™”
Are you trying to tell me that people doubted Amazi-Girl?
I love I DON’T LIVE HERE!™️
Y’know this is why Antifa goes for plain black outfits, a lot harder to identify than the bright yellow, monogramed superhero suit that probably also cost a lot of money to make (another reason you go for cheap, easily disposable piece of clothes). I’m honestly surprised Amber never got caught before, though I’ve always thought the Amazi-girl stuff was some of the most tonally inconsistent parts of the comic.
It’s well established that superhero logic works in this comic.
Does it really? For me it always clashed with the more grounded reality of the comic, like how the Amber/Amazi-girl split is sometimes played as legitimate mental illness and other times is basically just Two-Face comic book mental illness. It just feels like a bad holdover from Shortpacked, putting it into the real world setting makes it feel less like superhero stuff and more like uncomfortable vigilante justice.
It doesn’t work for all the readers tonally obviously, but it’s established that within universe, the superhero logic works. People don’t recognize Amber. Blaine getting a costume made him both more of a threat and unrecognizable. They’re capable of unrealistic feats. Costumes work. In multiple ways.
College RLSHs are more common than you think.
Are they?
I miss Phoenix Jones.
Yeah, but those guys don’t hide their identity from the public. Y’know, accountability and all that.
Before Amazi-Girl was an annoyance.
Now?
She threatens cops.
I don’t think she punched cops before the protest, so I don’t think the cops cared as much about the random vigilante beating up people they probably also wanted to bust the heads of
Please don’t let this be the start of several death flags for Amber, I kind of like her, and for anyone who wants to ask where Ruth’s spine is here a gentle reminder, these are Police in the United States, In a Red State, they will probably brutalize or shoot you for annoying them.
The good news is that Mike will be there to welcome her to Valhalla
Gulp. Not in the ceiling then. Very visible from below!
And from in the room
Indeed, where is she going? I suspect it involves jumping…
Oh they are very much looking for AG because they’re mad about getting humiliated aren’t they.
If they have a warrant, they don’t have to show it to you right away if you ask about it. If they think there’s a risk to public safety or a risk that evidence might be destroyed, they can delay confirming the existence of a warrant.
Additionally, those same excuses can be used to let them conduct a search without waiting for a warrant to be signed. All they had to do was claim waiting for a warrant would give someone time to destroy evidence or declare Amazigirl a threat to public saftey.
Beyond that, kind of surprised something like this hasn’t happened sooner. But I guess they’re taking it personally now that she’s directly attacked the police.
OTOH, why wouldn’t they just get a warrant? And have one of the officers wave it around while the others proceed.
Because, assuming what one person said above is correct, they’d have to get hundreds upon hundreds of warrants for every dorm room. I kind of thought they’d only need to get the one warrant for the whole building though, and that warrant would be given to Puddinghead not Ruth.
Not saying they’d be justified for committing a constitutional violation, just that that’s the reason they’d be lazy+corrupt and not do things the right way.
It’s possible. I’m not at all clear on what the law is for searching dorms en masse. If they’re just going to break down doors and search all the rooms without warrants that they actually need, they’re going to be in a lot of trouble.
There are people on this floor who can bring significant resources to bear – most notably Carla’s parents.
Even if they needed only one warrant and that would go to Chloe (or someone higher up), you’d think they’d need someone on the scene to show they had the correct legal permissions.
Playing devil’s advocate here.
Theres zero reason why they would not have a warrant. Everything that the cops did followed the letter of the law.
When the campus changed its bylaws the protesters became trespassers. They gave advanced notice of when the meadow would be cleared, prepared to clear it in plain sight, and used nonlethal force to do so.
The sniper, and the excess of force used, can be attributed to rumors that some of the protesters were armed and dangerous.
Amazi-Girl’s presence and physical assault of police officers in the course of their duty retroactively justifies any argument about how real said rumors were: they were assaulted by a masked resistence; therefore, it was prudent to be prepared.
Amazi-Girl has been reported on often. It is clear that she is a student, and likely a resident of this hall. If felony assault charges are leveled – which I’m sure they would be – theres not a judge on earth who wouldn’t sign a warrant to search. And showing up *without* a warrant is beyond stupid. It means that you literally cannot use any of that information in the future.
But no, this is DoA, so they have have to be evil corrupt cops at every level, and be breaking the rules even now, instead of just using the full power of the system in a corrupt way.
Snipers at protests are generally justified as “in case of attacks on the gathering, like any other mass event”, not for worries about the protesters being armed and dangerous. You can argue whether that’s true or not, but snipers do tend to be used at a lot of mass events, whether the cops want to intimidate the crowd or not. Obviously they do serve the purpose of intimidation at protests.
And yeah, things got real serious legally when AG attacked cops, however justified we think it was.
I mean they say that but they’re absolutely not given the police coddled the people who actually did attack protestors and famously protected the one who murdered two.
What are the odds that tomorrow we hard cut back to Doyce making kissy faces at each other for a week?
Cops busting down their door cause they were to involved in blinking to hear the cops demanding entrance
Good thing noone looks up, like ever. :/
Okay I know amber is panicking here but this seems like a pretty terrible place to hide???? I mean standing like that people who see you are gonna think your trying to hurl yourself off, your gonna draw a crowd, if your goal is not to be noticed this is the absolute worst place you could be
Maybe it’s just to lessen the drawing workload but none of the cops are carrying guns in today’s and yesterday’s strip. (Possible) Fun Fact: the shorter brown hair cop wears a load strap for a left-handed rig. most of the others are right-handed because they’re gesturing and communicating with the left hands. Training says don’t tie up the weapons hand.
Does it matter? No, but I’m sitting on the edge of my seat with spidey sense atiingling. weird the things that get noticed.
Maybe it’s just the perspective is off, but Ruth looks larger than all three of those cops. If she wanted their femurs, I’m sure she could take them.
Look at their feet, it is perspective. She is tall, though – about their size.
(Chuckles) She’s in danger.
Shit, very worried about Amber, whether it’s getting caught by the cops or falling from dizziness and breaking her head. We wouldn’t get that blatant a repeat of Mike, would we?
I’m suddenly thinking that we haven’t seen Amber in any preview panels for ages, and it’s not making me feel better.
Quoth the Damnable: No main characters die.
Then they overlooked that Mike had unintentionally become a main character. But Amber always was one.
I thought Mike was a main character from the beginning and Willis deliberated decided to break the rule to kill him.
Malala knows the drill: in South Hemisphere, what this cop mean was: “Just looking for some personal to take them with us; to torture them, make them confess whatever we want and, after all, make them disappear”
Sure, but in this case why? What’s the goal?
If they know Amber is AG, they’ve got her dead to rights. They can take her openly and legally and also beat her up for resisting arrest.
If they don’t, why are they here? Grabbing some random college kid and torturing them until they confess doesn’t get them anything.
It doesn’t get them something. Its a show of force and retaliation. They look weak caus of AG so doing this is them saving face so to speak
Dang auto correct and fat fingers. Its suppose to be does get them something
Grabbing someone random and torturing them to confess to being Amazi-Girl makes them look awful dumb when Amazi-Girl goes back into action.
Maybe they’ll grab Carla and Ruttech lawyers will destroy them. 🙂
Dumbing of Age book ##: Amazi-Girl Learns About The Difficulty of Making Fourth Amendment Claims Under the Supreme Court’s Restriction of Bivens
That’s not good… can even Amazigirl do this when high as a kite, and with some core muscles out of action?
Not sure when this arc eas added to the buffer, but it gets a lot off things about right-wing Trumpism.
Blood-red state? Check.
Uni which has sold out the student newspaper? Check.
The only thing missing are ICE occupation forces.
So Willis had over a year’s worth of buffer strips done.
He called this a year ago.
Well gee golly that’s not anxiety-inducing at all.
When I hear about someone being arrested on a warrant I often joke to myself they were arrested for having been in Warrant. It’s probably a crime someplace to have been in Warrant.
I dunno, Cherry Pie might get you arrested but Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a fantastic anti-cop song.
Plot Twist- The cops do find an Amazung Girl costume, but its Mary’s “naughty bad fun time” costume.
I was thinking that it might end up being in Mary’s closet, but for more nasty reasons. I could see Carla sneaking a fake one into Mary’s closet to get her in trouble.
Amber shares a room with Dina. Could the cops mistake Dina for Amazi-Girl?
This is completely random, but I think the run of strips from here
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/windowshopping/
to here
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/fairlysafe/
is probably one of my favorites in the comic. There’s just a lot of really great jokes in there
Ghost Mike calls out to Amber from the ground: “DO A FLIP!”
Wait, does Walky still have his Night-Guy outfit?
It will real fun if the costume turns up hidden in every closet in the dorm.
uuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaah @-@
wat the hell happened when i was crashing?
where’d the bastard cop vs ruth thread go? did it get deleted? damn
Lately I’ve been dressing for revenge
Welp