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Police in El Cajon, California has shot and killed a black man who witnesses say was acting erratically at a strip mall in suburban San Diego.
Authorities say the man was shot and killed after pulling an object from his pocket, pointing it at officers and assuming a “shooting stance.”
Police Chief Jeff Davis said one of the officers tried and failed to subdue the unidentified man with a stun gun before the other officer fired several times. Davis would not say what the object was that the man was holding, but acknowledged it was not a weapon.
Protest have already begun in California.
The fatal shooting comes just weeks after black men were shot and killed by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in Charlotte, North Carolina, where violent protests broke out. The El Cajon protest was angry but peaceful. Several dozen people, most of them black, gathered and some cursed at officers guarding the scene.
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