HARTFORD — Motor vehicle charges files against a well-known Hartford pastor and anti-crime activist have been dropped in state Superior Court in Hartford, the prosecutor’s office said Friday.

“I complied with everything that they asked me to do,” the Rev. A.J. Johnson said in a Thursday phone interview.

According to a police report, Johnson was captured on surveillance video backing into a car, tearing off part of the bumper. He got out of his uninsured Chevrolet Avalanche and appeared to check the Toyota Camry for damage before leaving, the report stated.

He was given a misdemeanor summons for evading responsibility and illegal operation of a motor vehicle without minimum insurance. Both charges were dropped after he talked to a prosecutor in court Thursday, he said.

The prosecutor nolled them, the state’s attorney’s office confirmed Friday. A “nolle prosequi” means the state declines to prosecute, but charges technically can be reopened within 13 months in Connecticut before automatic dismissal.

In a statement posted to Facebook Thursday, Johnson said he “made contact with the front bumper of another vehicle” and that he did not see any damage at the time.

“Once the matter was brought fully to my attention, I took responsibility and ensured that restitution was made before any news article was released,” he wrote.

In the phone interview, Johnson said he caught up with his car insurance payments, adding that his insurance lapsed while he was on a trip out of the country.

“Once I was made aware of it, I did everything that needed to be done,” he said.

Johnson, pastor of Urban Hope Refuge Church in Hartford’s North End, is director of neighborhood organizing for the Center for Leadership & Justice and a leader of the North Hartford Public Safety Coalition. The community group is one of many that condemned the recent deadly police shootings of two armed Black men with reported mental illness.