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Jermaine Baker: Family say they deserve more after inquiry finds unarmed black man was ‘lawfully killed’ by police
Undated family handout photo of Jermaine Baker

AN UNARMED black man who was shot dead by a Metropolitan Police officer was “lawfully killed,” an inquiry into his death concluded today.

Jermaine Baker, 28, a father of two from Tottenham, north London, was killed during an attempt to free a prisoner from a police vehicle near Wood Green Crown Court on December 11 2015. 

A  specialist counterterrorism firearms officer, referred to only as W80, shot Mr Baker dead he sat in the front seat of an Audi car.

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