found to have a bullet lodged in it afterwards, suggesting they may have narrowly escaped being struck.

Officers had been attempting to carry out an arrest under the Trident operational command unit, which deals with gun crime in the black community, according to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

An IPCC spokesman said that at around 6.15pm on Thursday, officers from Trident, accompanied by officers from the Specialist Firearms Command (CO19), stopped a minicab to carry out an arrest.

"Shots were fired and a 29-year-old man, who was a passenger in the cab, died at the scene," he said.

It is believed that two shots were fired by a firearms officer, equipped with a Heckler & Koch MP5 carbine.

A non-police issue handgun was recovered at the scene as well as the policeA BA passenger has claimed he was accused of stealing an iPhone on a flight and searched at by armed police because he was 'the only black man on the plane'.

Apple worker Jonathan Vardon, 26, said he was singled out by other travellers and wrongly accused of theft on the BA flight from Gatwick to Barcelona.

He claimed that he and two friends were forced to turn out their underwear and said that they were not given an apology later.

Jonathan Vardon, pictured with his boyfriend Drew Clawson, was accused of stealing an iPhone on a BA flight by a fellow passenger

Jonathan Vardon, 26, said he was singled out on the flight and that he was the only black man on the plane

Mr Vardon said he was the only black