Lawyers for a driver they say was shot at by a federal agent during a traffic stop are alleging that D.C. police tried to cover up the shooting.

Charging documents showed that on Oct. 17 just before 10 p.m., Phillip Brown, 33, was driving a Dodge SUV with dark-tinted windows and missing a front tag in the 4300 block of Benning Road in Northeast, when he was spotted by officers in a marked cruiser.

D.C. police followed the SUV, finally catching up to the driver near the 4200 block of Benning Road. Charging documents said the driver of the SUV switched lanes during that time, doing so several times as police “activated the emergency equipment to affect a traffic stop.”

When the SUV approached stopped traffic, one D.C. police officer told federal officers that Brown, the driver, was going

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