cars mounted the sidewalk, hit something, skirted the corner, came off the sidewalk, pedestrians scattering. how long did this go on for? so this goes on for an hour and a half plus until they finally say we ve been uptown. we ve been downtown to 23rd street, uptown to 96th street, fdr drive, third avenue side streets and we can t lose this pack, so tommy buda, who is the guy running the motorcade on the private security side, former fbi, nypd, very competent guy says let s go somewhere safe. take a breather and make a plan. they go to the 19th police precinct. that s where they shift to the taxi, but the spotters end up following them. and then they go to plan c, which actually works. and they shifted to the taxi, john, as a decoy to throw off the paparazzi. the idea would be the paparazzi were focused on the motorcade that was in place. if they could slip them into a taxi that would then disappear at midnight into a sea of other
they get through the light, they notice there are spotters. there are scooters, there are e bikes, there are motorcycles. so there s about ten different things on four wheels and two wheels that are swarming around. the object of the game didn t seem to be to get more pictures of them. they re in a bhlacked out suv. the object of the game seemed to be to conduct a surveillance that took them back to where they were going so that the paparazzi could stay stake that out, you know, camp out there and then be able to follow their every move. they were trying to thwart that. and i mean that goes literally they go all the way uptown. can t shake them. they re trying to slow down. they re not running red lights. they re not speeding, but these people are blocking the are front of the car, driving through red light into oncoming traffic. at one point when two of the suvs in the motorcade didn t move while the car with the duke and duchess went, one of the
more concerned about harry and meghan and meghan s mother s safety, necessarily, but the people around. and in several situations they could see potentially people dying. that s what they were concerned about, and it went on for more than two hours. when they were put into a taxicab, the taxi driver spoke about having harry and meghan in his vehicle. let s listen. we were just making left turns and right turns and that was it. they were not being that aggressive when they were driving behind us. so what do you make of that? so, they finally went to the 19th police precinct, and said we need to regroup for a minute. this is getting dangerous to others. they came up with a dodge, which is we will keep the limo here where they are focused on that, we will slip them into a taxi. but the paparazzi spotters caught that, and then disputed scooters caught up to the taxi. so essentially the cabdriver went around the block, three left turns, drop them back at
we were just making left turns and right turns and that s it. they were not being that aggressive while they were driving behind us. so, what do you make of that? so, they finally went to the 19th police precinct. so, let s regroup for a moment because we can t shake these people and this is getting dangerous to others. and they came up with a dodge, which is we ll keep the limo here, where they re focused on that. we ll slip them into a taxi. but the paparazzi spotters caught that. the cab driver basically just went around the block, three left turns, drop back at the precinct. how did they get away? midnight came. the midnight to 8:00 shift of the police department came out of the springt, all got into their cars. and then you had the block basically clogged with cops and police cars, but the limos were at the far end. so, they used this kind of police gridlock to take off, get to the place they were going, which is where they were staying, a private residence. but these scoote