Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

It does not seem right but I am not sure I have all the facts. Were Miranda rights given after being placed in handcuffs? Was there a care chase first? Forgive me, I just don't know if I have all the facts of the incident.

But no, this is not proper police procedure under normal circumstances.

Not usually. But I can imagine circumstances where police could justifiably do what you describe. It's one thing to handcuff a suspect before telling him what's going on, but it would be quite another to keep the information from him once he's been in custody for a while. And like Mr. Wheeler, I sense that this isn't an even-handed account of what happened.