The force later referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which is standard in cases where police discharge their firearms.
The witness told the BBC at the time residents on the street were told to stay in their homes by armed police
“We all got told ‘get in your houses, get in your houses, firearms, firearms’,” she said.
“We were all pushed into our homes so much so I had a stranger in my house, the police just pushed him into my house.
“I said he doesn’t live here, she said ‘I don’t care get him in’.”
Baker, of Tobruk Road, is set to make an initial appearance at South Sefton Magistrates’ Court in Bootle on 2 April via video-link.
