A firearms officer has been arrested and interviewed under caution over the shooting of a man.
Jermaine Baker, 28, was shot dead on 11 December during an alleged attempt to spring two convicts from a prison van in Wood Green, north London.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) told a meeting held to address community tensions that the officer was arrested on Thursday afternoon.
The IPCC has opened a homicide inquiry.
'No CCTV found'
IPCC commissioner Cindy Butts said evidence suggested Mr Baker was in a black Audi when he was shot.
"In that car was what appeared to be a non-police issue firearm," she said.
She told the meeting the IPCC was taking detailed statements from a number of significant witnesses but at this stage no relevant CCTV had been found.
Further forensic examinations were taking place on the non-police issue firearm and the firearm discharged by the police officer, she added.
The Police Federation said it wanted to find out why the IPCC was "bandying words about" like homicide.
"I've never heard of that before," said spokesman Ken Marsh.
"It's a week before Christmas and this individual's [the officer] life has been thrown into disarray."
Haringey Borough Commander Victor Olisa said police did not believe Mr Baker was a gang member, as had been suggested in some newspapers.
Community spokesman Darren Henry said: "The police officers murdered Jermaine.
"He was asleep when he was shot. There are witnesses who are afraid to step forward because of the witness intimidation in the Mark Duggan case."
Some in the audience raised the fact that after Mr Duggan's death there were promises that body cameras would be worn by all police but it had yet to happen.
Witness Nick Lindsay said the incident was over in 10 to 15 seconds, but Baker had been in the car for around 30 minutes before the police swooped.
He said: "He was parked there for easily half an hour, I would have said, because he was there when we first turned up this morning.
"He must have been there at least half an hour, minimum."
He added: "The police all came down, they all jumped out of cars with their guns and said 'Get down', and then there was a smash, then the gunshot went off.
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Officer has been arrested.
Bet its just to make the police look proactive
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Grafter
his life? disarray?
give me strength
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QPR Dee
Holy shit, asleep?
How can they prove this post mortem? Could be very important
Whole thing is mad, was crazy how it played in the media, from some high level Turkish Mafia ting to fumigation investigation into the shooting.
Need to look at relationship between police and media as well
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