The whole thing is just stupid, though. H&M made clear it was a two hour thing from start to finish (so the two hours included the time they were inside the police station, after their police escort realised they couldn't safely avoid the paps who were running red lights and endangering pedestrians by driving over pavements and took them to the police station), and not two hours of continuous car chasing. They also never claimed it was a "high speed" chase.
The whole thing feels so manipulative and gaslighty from the media, and it's distasteful how much glee people are taking from watching someone who's clearly extremely traumatised be put into what's evidently a very traumatising situation.
Someone with PTSD whose mum was brutally killed by being chased by paps is for sure going to have a massive trauma response to being chased by paps themselves, and no one is denying (and both police and the NY mayor's office have confirmed) that some unmarked cars with covered up licence plates did chase them, did drive dangerously, and spent two hours pursuing them, and that their police escort considered the situation so dangerous they had to be escorted inside a police station and wait for some time inside a police station, then get a second form of transport.
The decision to move Harry and Meghan from their SUV into a yellow taxi then have the police escort go in a different direction from the taxi in order to fool the paps also seems to have confused people, due to the taxi driver selling his story to so many media outlets. But H&M were only in the taxi for ten minutes, because that was after they'd changed cars and ditched the car that was being chased. It was the SUV that was being chased, not the taxi.
The video also shows people surrounding their car screaming at them (who is the man with the British accent??) so it's not like nothing happened. Clearly something very upsetting happened. The police don't decide to escort and shelter two people in a police station for no reason.
It's just so shady how the media have created this whole thing where basically:
Harry and Meghan: We were chased, had to wait in a police station, and the whole thing took two hours.
Media: Harry and Meghan claim TWO HOUR HIGH SPEED CAR CHASE.
Witnesses: Um there was no HIGH SPEED chase.
Public: LOL busted for lying hahahaha!
Like... it's not Harry and Meghan who claimed it was a two-hour high speed chase, the media just made that up. Apparently only the small part that took place on FDR Drive (which is a highway) was 'high speed.' So there was a small part that was high speed but the two hours covers the whole thing, including the time spent inside the police station, and being pursued at lower speed. In a busy area like NY, being pursued even at low speeds is dangerous and scary. The pursuing cars were objectively driving over pavements and driving the wrong way down one-way streets which is clearly unsafe.
The whole thing happened between 10pm and midnight so it's not surprising that few passersby had footage. Think about it logically, if you're driving down a highway, how often do you have your phone open and in your hand, with camera app open and switched to video mode? And how fast would you react to other cars going by?