I Was Arrested, It's the Passive Form

'I was arrested, it's the passive form. It's just another way of saying the police arrested me,' he says. 'Instead of putting the police at the beginning of the sentence, you emphasize you at the beginning.' The French have a lot of those sorts of structures which allow them to impersonalize their sentences,. Now, a redneck would call that bullshit. But the French call it politez Yes. Politeness', he adds.