The warrant was issued for the area surrounding AutoZone on May 27, 2020. Author: Sharon Yoo Updated: 6:57 PM CST February 8, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS — Over the weekend, an online tech newspaper called TechCrunch broke a story about how the Minneapolis Police used a specific type of warrant to identify people who may have been in the area of the AutoZone riots on May 27, 2020. The article, penned by Zack Whittaker features a Minneapolis resident, who says he was contacted by Google saying that his "account information was subject to a search warrant." The search warrant obtained by Whittaker, shows a police officer is asking Google for "location history data from devices that reported a location within the geographical region bound by coordinates, dates and times."