Allanzo Johnson had just left a corner store in north Minneapolis when he noticed a black pickup truck pull out behind him. It trailed him for half a dozen blocks and then its police lights flicked on.
Johnson, 26, was confused. He was driving the speed limit. He was wearing his seatbelt. He wasn’t a criminal with outstanding warrants. He was a school bus driver on his way home after work.
He pulled over and two Hennepin County sheriff’s detectives wearing t-shirts, tactical vests and body cameras approached either side of his 2008 white Dodge Durango. Johnson remembers they had their hands on their guns and told him to put his hands in the air…