Some More News: How Cops Became Soldiers
Some More News
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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Hi. On today's episode of Some More News, we look at how your local police department gradually became militarized, and how that's bad. Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through our link.
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Amanda Scherker
Additional Material by Shawn Depasquale and Riley Kim
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Edited by John Conway and Gregg Meller
Post-Production Supervisor / Motion Graphics & VFX - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell
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| 0:50.8 | Anyway, story time. |
| 0:52.8 | Like all good stories, this begins at midnight on April 10th, 2024. |
| 0:58.0 | The local North Carolina Police SWAT squad has just thrown at least two flashbang grenades into a mobile home. |
| 1:05.0 | As the living room couch and rug erupts into flames, the SWAT team storms inside and points military-grade guns |
| 1:12.3 | at a 16-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy, while another officer violently handcuffs their |
| 1:17.7 | visibly injured father. All as their mother, a survivor of two heart attacks, struggles to breathe |
| 1:24.1 | from all the smoke while being interrogated amidst escalating cardiovascular palpitations. |
| 1:29.3 | Also, one of them is a magic dog or something. |
| 1:34.3 | Oh, wait, also, also, the family had committed absolutely zero crimes. |
| 1:40.3 | The cops had mistakenly connected their car to a suspected burglar's car, despite it |
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