At 100MPH plus it would take a minute or three at least to catch up. At that point other officers including shift Super would be responding also both behind him and in front predicting his forward route. His radio traffic may tell the whole story. If I understand it right this was inside a city and not like back-up was on the other end of the county.
Evidently enough time lapsed to chase and stop the car as well as order the occupants out face down. If an officer knew his backup was in route and he was the only officer on scene I would think he would rather have them lying face down until he had help on scene.
Wait, you're supposed to jump to conclusions like every other Freeper on these threads!
>>>Serious question. If the officer was in pursuit, pulled them over, and had them ordered to the ground, where was his back-up?
I tend to agree with you that his backup might not have been far away, but then again if SBSO is contracted to police Chino, the other units might have been on other calls in the city and the nearest backup might have been a few minutes away. If not, the other S.O. units could have been way far out of position.
Don't know if they had the chopper in the air for this or not? Lot's of variables come into play. But I most certainly would have proned the suspects out at gunpoint and held them until backup arrived before approaching.
I couldn't tell but maybe backup was already on the scene and the video just didn't show it, or at least what video was released. I'm sure there will be more info come out on this one before long.