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Met Police under pressure to explain fatal shooting of man in his twenties
A forensics officer at the scene in Kirkstall Gardens, Streatham Hill, south London, where a man was shot by armed officers from the Metropolitan Police following a pursuit on Monday evening

THE Metropolitan Police is under pressure to explain why armed officers fatally shot a man in his twenties in south London on Monday night.

The force said officers had pursued a “suspect vehicle.”

The car was stopped when police deliberately collided with the vehicle at 9.51pm in Kirkstall Gardens, a residential street in the Streatham Hill area. A firearm was then deployed. 

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