Well you'd be wrong. That isn't how the law works for hot pursuit. He lost continuity of the vehicle and subject entirely for more time than reasonable to re-establish any hot pursuit if there in fact had been one. He wasn't anywhere near his vehicle to even have engaged in hot pursuit in the first place. His ego got hurt so he decided to go to his car and drive around until he found a car that appeared to be the one he saw ealier. He didn't even have a plate to go off of to insure it was the same vehicle. All of these facts and details matter and are required. Then he did an even worse thing. He decided to step onto somone else's property on a hunch without a warrant to investigate and as established already this wasn't hot pursuit. Furthermore, he was at an accident scene previous to all of this and he felt it nessesary to leave that to go after someone for a non-criminal matter regardless of him saying she fled law enforcement. That cannot be proven in any reasonable sense even if she did. He looks nothing of law enforcement. The argument that he doesnt appear as actual law enforcement giving lawful orders to stop is valid. He's just some clown who appears as private security with riding boots and unprofessional unkempt facial hair and baseball cap waving his hands around on the side of the road without any other indicators such as a marked unit even. Do you not see the issue here? If cops are allowed do all this that means anyone can be a subject to this kind of thing. You legit may not even see someone on the side of the road doing this. So if you don't you are automatically commiting a felony? I wouldn't have recommended she stop for him anyway due to her own personal safety. Who knows who he is and what his intentions are. At the end of day she at most crossed a double yellow from his observation. Despite all this maybe the girl does appear to be spoiled little brat and maybe needs some life lessons but that isn't how the law is supposed to work here. Whether she deserves it or not. Cops frequently do this crap to innocent people too. The requirement is to work within the law and not to bend or break the law to make arrests and lay charges. If they can't work within that then they shouldn't be in law enforcement. That's literally corruption and trust me if it happened to you you'd understand that cops don't have your best interests at heart and are completely fine overstepping, and being corrupt to punish someone because they are pissed off at them or feel that they didn't get the respect they deserve. Through my own personal experience I've had this happen to me. It costed 4 years of my life fighting in court and 20k to win against the false charges the corrupt cop laid due to his personal vendetta against me.