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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Michael Kunzelman

Police report omits a federal agent's shooting at a DC driver. The man's lawyers suspect a cover-up

DC Shooting Federal Agent - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A federal agent fired shots at an unarmed Black man during a recent traffic stop while patrolling the nation's capital for President Donald Trump's law-enforcement surge. But a police report on the encounter doesn't mention the shooting, an omission that the man's attorneys point to as evidence of a cover-up attempt.

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the shooting by a Homeland Security Investigations agent, who was with police officers and other federal agents when they stopped a car driven by Phillip M. Brown on Oct. 17.

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