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SAD: California officer fatally shoots black man

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Kufre Isaac Akpan:
A  black man has died after police shot him in El Cajon, California, sparking protests in the suburb northeast of San Diego. On Tuesday afternoon, El Cajon police responded to a 911 call regarding an African-American man in his 30s who reportedly was behaving "erratically" behind a restaurant at the Broadway Village Shopping Center, Lt. Rob Ransweiler said. 'Not acting like himself' According to the call, the man was "not acting like himself" and had been walking in traffic in a manner that endangered himself and motorists, police Chief Jeff Davis said. "When (officers) contacted him, he failed to comply with the directives that he was given," Ransweiler said. Instead, Davis said the man kept his hands concealed in his pockets while pacing back and forth. As a second officer prepared a Taser, the man "rapidly drew an object .... Click to read to the end with photos http://worldathand.heck.in/sad-california-officer-fatally-shoots-bl.xhtml

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