Story highlights The travel advisory cites "recent tensions in some American cities over shootings of young black males by police officers"

The Bahamas tells its citizens -- specifically young men -- traveling to the U.S.: "Do not be confrontational and cooperate"

(CNN) The Bahamas' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration is warning its citizens traveling to the United States of "recent tensions in some American cities over shootings of young black males by police officers."

The government of the majority-black Caribbean nation emphasized in an statement Friday that its travelers should avoid crowds and demonstrations in the U.S. Young men, specifically, should "exercise extreme caution in affected cities in their interactions with the police ... Do not be confrontational and cooperate."

The warning comes ahead of the country's Independence Day on Monday, a public holiday when many Bahamians plan to travel to the United States.

The Bahamian travel advisory follows the fatal shootings of two African-American men earlier this week in separate incidents in Louisiana and Minnesota, and after five police officers were killed and seven others were wounded by a shooter who opened fire during a rally in Dallas.

In the United States, protests over those and earlier shootings of black men by police continued in several cities on Saturday.

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