Protests after El Cajon, California, police shooting

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A black man is dead after a police shooting at a shopping center in El Cajon, California, near San Diego, police said.

Shawn Letchaw hugs a woman named Marie, who didn't give her last name, at the scene where a black man was shot by police earlier in El Cajon, east of San Diego, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

One man holds his fist up as others yell at police at the scene where a black man was shot by police earlier in El Cajon, east of San Diego, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

People yell toward police at the scene where a black man was shot by police earlier in El Cajon, east of San Diego, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

A man points at police as he and others yell at police while at the scene where a black man was shot by police earlier in El Cajon, east of San Diego, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Pastor Russell Bowman, center, prays out loud as people gather at the scene where an African-American man was shot by police in El Cajon, east of San Diego, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

This still from video provided by 10News.com shows people standing near where police shot a man in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2016. (10News.com via AP)

This still from video provided by 10News.com shows a woman facing police officers near where police shot a man in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2016. (10News.com via AP)

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Shawn Letchaw hugs a woman named Marie, who didn't give her last name, at the scene where a black man was shot by police earlier in El Cajon, east of San Diego, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

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