Shadowing Practice: Cop Deploys Grappler During Highway Chase - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Using flock cameras, a Michigan State Trooper spotted a stolen

Chevrolet Cruze and began following it, leading to a type of traffic stop we've never shown on this channel before.

It's going to be a white Chevy Cruze.

We're over 96 right now, looking to see what he's going to do.

A couple cars bad, trying to keep some cars in between so he doesn't see me.

Unless he's turned it yet on 96, I'll let you know the direction here in a minute.

DVD from MSP, we're hopping on to westbound 890 sits, you probably have your unit stand out.

Running in the dark.

And we're head sitting at outer.

Oh, no, I never said we were in the blue tube. Have you?

And we're hopping back on 96.

Red from MSB.

Viva Zeya, I was in a 1010 vehicle.

Do you have any units in the area that might be able to help me out here?

We can get units en route from the station.

I'm just following him right now.

I'm trying to get some units with me before I light him up.

If you guys don't have him in the area, that's fine.

I'll hop over to Livonia.

I'm about to come under Beach right now.

What lane are you in?

Livonia from MSB.

He's in left center.

I'm behind a 1010 vehicle westbound passing heatster right now on 96.

Do you have any units in the area to be able to head this way?

23, 26, any other way.

One at the Grappler.

We ramped at Merriman.

Is he okay if I have a Grappler list?

Yeah, I want a few grand positions to grapple.

Go ahead.

I'm ramped at Merriman.

Affirm, right center lane under Melvin right now.

Coming up to Merriman.

I'm just calling up for traffic.

Maybe five cars back for a minute.

Just let them out.

I'm going to try and wait for the one to get in it.

Still in the right lane.

He's behind the white pickup truck.

All right, I'm good sir.

Right center lane now, just about to pass you.

You want to light him up here?

We're lighting him up and Livonia's looking to grab him.

Right at Farmington.

Back road.

It's the battery car!

Get out of the car!

Stop the tire!

I'm really trying to get out of the bracket.

Stop your car!

Why do we want to run this, guys?

Who's that?

You got your mic to give them verbal comments here?

Let me try to open this up.

Driver, open the driver's window and put both your hands out the window so we can see them.

Like in the front?

20, can you get fire started as well?

We got a fire on the vehicle starting out.

We have LFD stayed way behind us, just in case it's a bad influence.

Do you guys know how many are in there?

No. The brakes are on and off now.

I didn't expect him to try to get out of the grappling, so that looks crazy.

Tell him the car's on fire, he better get out.

I mean, it looks like the car's still running, right?

Yeah, he's got his foot on the brake.

Driver, the vehicle is on fire.

You need to open the driver's door and show us your hands.

Show us both of your hands.

Show me that right hand right now.

Step out of the vehicle and face away from my voice.

Face away from me.

Face away from me, driver.

Keep walking backwards

slowly driver face away from me face straight ahead keep walking backward keep walking backward

keep walking keep walking do not turn around put your hands

on your head keep your hands on your head stop right there two more people the driver's door

place your hands on your heads

and one at a time blue hoodie walk backward facing forward walk backward slowly purple hoodie stand still do not move

Take two steps to your right.

All right.

I'm with number one if you want to pull up.

I will direct you.

Do not come.

Keep walking back.

Keep coming back.

Yeah, I do.

Good.

Is that on your back?

Purple hoodie, do not turn around.

Keep facing forward.

I will direct you.

Walk back with me.

Purple hoodie, walk backward.

Slowly.

Keep walking backward.

Keep coming back.

Face forward.

I'll direct you.

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One more large step to the right, all right walk back keep coming back

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We got two in, let's see

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Up, up, up

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Up, up, up

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My stop's on my car, the only thing that I have in my car

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Well, your car's on fire, so Let's see.

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Let's ask them real quick.

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I want to see if anybody else is in the car.

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Do we have FD staged?

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They can start making their way down here.

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You're left in the vehicle.

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Exit through the driver's door now.

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I can't see anything.

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That's not going to be much good.

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No. You're inside.

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Come out right now.

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Get out.

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You got an extinguisher back there?

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Uh, yeah.

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You got to be careful, right?

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If they're in there, they ain't going to be conscious.

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I'm going to move my car so FT can get through.

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Uh, is there a little flame going on there, dude?

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They're not conscious if they're in there.

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Just wait.

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Just put it in park. Do me a favor.

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Try to just back up and park it on that shoulder right there, okay?

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What you need, Sarge, now let's just say we got three in custody, right?

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Yeah.

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They tried to flee, right?

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What wires out, we can cross the inside, see what's left of that.

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How far did they get after the grip?

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Ah, not far.

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My back hurts.

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How do you know the gentleman?

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I met him at a hotel.

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How do you know the guy?

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I know him, I see what friends, I don't even know his real name.

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I wanted to say he put it in part there and it didn't go any further than that.

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It's a little bit more than the manufacturer.

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I think right now we just need to identify and decide if we'll keep us with emails.

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Both Femmes have warrants, she has a warrant.

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Huh, suitcases!

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Gross.

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So I'm gonna raise your rights real quick, okay? whose car is

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that you don't know where'd you get it there's a lot out here i can't hear you

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these girls know anything about the car being stolen

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you understand your rights how long you've been in

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that car for a couple hours we're sitting in a house for a while

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and i just really don't have nowhere to go do they say anything about the car at all

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i don't know much about them what do they say

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when we put their lights on i honestly was sleeping in the back seat

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and next thing you know i felt the car jerk and we went forward and that's

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Oh, you don't play the sleeping game.

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No, I swear to God, I was sleeping in the backseat.

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Everybody knows the sleeping game.

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I was sleeping in the backseat.

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We just got McDonald's before we got in the freeway.

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I was eating my sandwich.

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I was honestly sleeping.

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I was up for like two days before this.

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Alright, ma 'am.

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You understand your rights?

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How do you know the other people in the car?

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Do you hang out with them often?

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How long have you been with them today?

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Oh, two hours.

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Is this normally the car he drives around in?

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you know him to normally have a car what did he say to you

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when we turned our lights on behind him nothing

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i told him to stop where were you heading to right

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now we were gonna go to walmart okay why'd you pass

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it up don't know i was in the one driving would it surprise you

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if i told you the car was stolen

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i would be surprised looks like you got a warrant for stolen car am i supposed to believe

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you didn't know anything about

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that stolen car i was kidnapped you got charged with being in a stolen car

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when you were kidnapped because i left this house and i got away

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You guys fire department already clear out of here?

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Despite a grappler's effectiveness in ending pursuits, the device remains relatively rare.

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As of 2026, only about 70 to 165 law enforcement agencies across the United States use it.

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Out of nearly 18 ,000 total agencies, the grappler's greatest strengths are in ending pursuits at high speeds and doing so relatively safely.

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The only alternative is a pit, and doing a pit at freeway speeds tends to be considered deadly force

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and carries considerable risk for both troopers and motorists alike.

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For this reason, most pits are trained at speeds below 45 miles per hour.

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Above 45 miles per hour is when a grappler really shines.

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But the Grappler, as great as it is, is not without significant downsides.

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The costs range from $5 ,000 to $10 ,000 per vehicle install, and then replacement typically costs $500 per deployment.

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It is best when deployed on smaller vehicles.

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Heavier vehicles like pickups and SUVs can cause the deploying police squad to lose control, which occasionally results in officer injuries.

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I'm going to send that plate to cut out.

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I got Boyd Robert Lincoln, John 9.

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The suspect, identified as 27 -year -old Malachi, was grappled in a Chevrolet Cruze that was stolen out of Dearborn the day before.

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He was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and a probation violation warrant.

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The two female passengers were wanted on multiple warrants from different jurisdictions, and all three occupants were taken into custody.

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Malachi is innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Cop Deploys Grappler During Highway Chase”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: vehicle, stolen, backward, walking. This video has 195 sentences and 1631 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:02. The speaker talks at a steady 125 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 31 of its 195 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
steal verb	/stiːl/	To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
backward adjective	/ˈbækwɚd/	Situated toward or at the rear of something.
warrant noun	/ˈwɔɹənt/	Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
purple noun	/ˈpɝ.pl̩/	A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
hop noun	/hɒp/	A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
custody noun	/ˈkʌstədiː/	The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
conscious adjective	/ˈkɑn.ʃəs/	Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.
pursuit noun	/pɝˈsut/	The act of pursuing.
pickup noun	/ˈpɪkʌp/	In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
deploy verb	/dɪˈplɔɪ/	To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
freeway noun	/ˈfɹiː.weɪ/	A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic running in two directions…
enforcement noun	/ɪnˈfoɹsm(ə)nt/	The act of enforcing; compulsion.
gross adjective	/ɡɹoʊs/	remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
innocent adjective	/ˈɪnəsənt/	Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
replacement noun	/ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/	A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come back verb		To return to a place.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
get out verb		To leave or escape.
turn around verb		To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
walk back verb		To withdraw or backpedal on a statement or promise.
back up verb		To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
come under verb		To come underneath (something).

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

What lane are you in?
You want to light him up here?
Why do we want to run this, guys?
Do you guys know how many are in there?
Is that on your back?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being stolen · was stolen · was kidnapped
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	we've never shown · you've been · have you been

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 48 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: conscious /ˈkɑn.ʃəs/, occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, shine /ʃaɪn/, violation /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: occasionally /əˈkeɪʒənəli/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, manufacturer /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/, violation /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, jurisdiction /d͡ʒʊɹɪsˈdɪkʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like steal, backward, warrant.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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