Huge protests followed as a 28-year-old man from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was shot by police at junction 24 of the M62 near Huddersfield, after they received information that he was armed and carrying a gun in the Audi he was driving.
Consequently, riot police were called after over 100 people blocked roads protesting against the death of Mohammed Yasser Yaqub.
It has led his family and Bradford West MP Naz Shah, a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee, to appeal for calm.
Police chiefs and the Independent Police Complaints Commission have also appealed for patience from the public as inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the police operation last week continue.
The protest brought traffic to a standstill. Police reported number of vehicles being damaged, though no arrests were made.
Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is probing the matter, revealed a “non-police issue firearm” had been found in his car and was being “further examined”.
Police had earlier revealed the probe was connected to the illegal possession of a gun, and not terrorism.
Yaqub is reported to have been cleared of two counts of attempted murder in May 2010 after a judge described the key prosecution witness as one of the least convincing he had heard in 35 years. He had been accused of shooting at two people in a car in the Huddersfiled suburb of Birkby in September 2009 but Bradford crown court ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
Three people were arrested at the scene of last Monday’s shooting.
