Miranda warning

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 857: Being Arrested by the Police.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 857. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development, in beautiful Los Angeles, California, home of ESL Podcast.

This episode, like all of our episodes has a Learning Guide. You can get one by going to our website at ESLPod.com.

This episode is a story about someone, well, getting into trouble and being taken by the police. Let’s get started.

I was walking down the street minding my own business one evening when I was stopped by a police officer. After asking me a couple of questions about where I’d been, he told me to put my hands behind my back. He was going to arrest me! He handcuffed me and gave me the Miranda warning. When I asked him why he was arresting me, he said that he had probable cause to believe that I was the suspect they had been looking for