A federal agent shot at an unarmed Black man during a traffic stop earlier this month while working alongside D.C. police officers, according to three of the man’s lawyers, who accuse city police of misconduct because the gunfire isn’t mentioned in the incident report. A D.C. police officer told a judge he was instructed by a superior not to document the shooting in a court record, the lawyers said, and all charges against the man have been dropped.

On Oct. 17, D.C. police were steering a marked cruiser through Northeast Washington when they spotted a Dodge SUV with dark tinted windows and missing a front tag, according to court records. They were patrolling in collaboration with officers from five federal agencies, including the FBI and Customs and Border Protection, as part of the “Make

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