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This image provided by Elizabeth Paige White shows bullet holes in a seat in a vehicle of Phillip M. Brown after a Homeland Security Investigations agent fired shots Oct. 17, 2025, in Washington, during a traffic stop. (Elizabeth Paige White via AP)

WASHINGTON – 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.

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