The traffic stop started off calmly. Two Fontana police officers pulled over a black sport utility vehicle in Yucaipa, and a male officer asked the driver about what appeared to be a missing front license plate. They chatted about camping in the snow — the vehicle had overland camping gear affixed to it — and the officer chuckled when the man said he had previously been arrested for having illegal fireworks. The officer asked the driver, whom authorities identified as Alan Metka, 56, to step out... Read this story
