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ByDonThompson TheAssociatedPress SACRAMENTO Sacra- mento police acted legally when they shot and killed a mentally ill man after video showed the officers first tried to hit him with their squad car, prosecu- tors said Friday. Joseph Mann was shot 14 times in July. He threatened officers and several other people with a knife, the Sacra- mento County District At- torney's Office said in its in- vestigative report of the po- lice killing. The report said Mann was acting aggressively in July while under the influ- ence of methamphetamine, and that witnesses also thought Mann had a gun. "Mann slashed his knife in the direction of officers and threatened to use it to cause them bodily harm, including yelling that he was going to 'gut' them," the report said. "Mann held his knife in a threaten- ing manner and turned di- rectly towards two officers who were in close proxim- ity trying to disarm and ar- rest him." The officers shot him 14 times, moments after dash- board video shows that they tried to strike him with their vehicle. Police found a knife but no gun after Mann was killed. Black Lives Matter spokeswoman Tanya Fai- son said her group was "completely disgusted" with the prosecutors' deci- sion to clear the officers of wrongdoing. She said the video showed Mann was "hunted down" and that it "should have been enough to have some repercussions for these officers." The prosecutors' re- port said the officer who was driving tried to knock Mann down with his vehi- cle to disarm him and as a way of stopping him. The lawyer for officers John Tennis and Randy Lo- zoya, Judith Olbert, praised the report. "We're grateful that the district attorney took a very thorough and extensive look at this so that they can continue with their careers and their lives unmarked," she said. "We've said from the beginning that they were acting properly." Mann's shooting set off protests, as did the April shooting of Dazion Flenaugh, another mentally ill man, also in Sacramento. The district attorney's of- fice said earlier this month that police also acted le- gally in that shooting be- cause Flenaugh rushed of- ficers while carrying two large kitchen knives. Video released this month in that shooting shows an officer calling Flenaugh a "freak" and ad- vising a bystander to "just hit him with a baseball bat." Mann's family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city, police de- partment and the two offi- cers. They had filed a pe- tition asking prosecutors to charge the officers with murder. "It is disheartening but it is not surprising. It's the world we live in as black people," said John Bur- ris, an attorney for Mann's family, said of the district attorney's decision. One of the officers is white and one is Latino and both officers have mixed-race children, Odbert has said, denying that race was an issue. Burris added: "It's sort of a routine notion here that the police receive protec- tion from the district at- torney...even though the conduct is as egregious as conduct can be when offi- cers try to hit someone with a car." The city revised its use of force policy as one result of the recent shootings, he said, "so from the family's point of view the case has had some positive benefits." Mann was a college grad- uate who had worked as a counselor with the state cor- rections department and as a grocery store clerk, an- other family attorney said. But he deteriorated into mental illness and was pre- viously convicted of break- ing and entering, theft and resisting arrest. In recent years he had been living on the streets and struggling with ille- gal drugs, family members said. SHOOTING Official:Sacramentopolice legally killed mentally ill man By Scott Smith The Associated Press FRESNO California can require Monsanto to la- bel its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite an insistence from the chem- ical giant that it poses no risk to people, a judge ten- tatively ruled Friday. California would be the first state to order such la- beling if it carries out the proposal. Monsanto had sued the nation's leading agricul- tural state, saying Califor- nia officials illegally based their decision for carrying the warnings on an inter- national health organiza- tion based in France. Monsanto attorney Trenton Norris argued in court Friday that the labels would have im- mediate financial conse- quences for the company. He said many consumers would see the labels and stop buying Roundup. "It will absolutely be used in ways that will harm Monsanto," he said. After the hearing, the firm said in a statement that it will challenge the tentative ruling. Critics take issue with Roundup's main ingredi- ent, glyphosate, which has no color or smell. Mon- santo introduced it in 1974 as an effective way of killing weeds while leav- ing crops and plants in- tact. It's sold in more than 160 countries, and farm- ers in California use it on 250 types of crops. The chemical is not re- stricted by the U.S. En- vironmental Protection Agency, which says it has "low toxicity" and recom- mends people avoid enter- ing a field for 12 hours af- ter it has been applied. But the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a Lyon, France- based branch of the U.N. World Health Organiza- tion, classified the chemi- cal as a "probable human carcinogen." Shortly afterward, the most populated U.S. state took its first step in 2015 to require the warning la- bels. St. Louis-based Mon- santo contends that Cal- ifornia is delegating its authority to an unelected foreign body with no ac- countability to U.S. or state officials in violation of the California Consti- tution. Attorneys for Califor- nia consider the Inter- national Agency for Re- search on Cancer the "gold standard" for iden- tifying carcinogens, and they rely on its findings along with several states, the federal government and other countries, court papers say. Fresno County Supe- rior Court Judge Kristi Kapetan still must issue a formal decision, which she said would come soon. California regulators are waiting for the for- mal ruling before moving forward with the warn- ings, said Sam Delson, a spokesman for the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assess- ment. Once a chemical is added to a list of proba- ble carcinogens, the man- ufacturer has a year be- fore it must attach the la- bel, he said. Teri McCall believes a warning would have saved her husband, Jack, who toted a backpack of Roundup for more than 30 years to spray weeds on their 20-acre avocado and apple farm. He died of cancer in late 2015. "I just don't think my husband would have taken that risk if he had known," said Teri McCall, one of dozens nationwide who are suing Monsanto, claiming the chemical gave them or a loved one cancer. But farmer Paul Betan- court, who has been using Roundup for more than three decades on his al- mond and cotton crops, says he does not know anyone who has gotten sick from it. "You've got to treat it with a level of respect, like anything else," he said. "Gasoline will cause cancer if you bathe in the stuff." WEED-KILLER Ca li fo rn ia cl ea rs h ur dl e fo r cancer warning label on Roundup RICHPEDRONCELLI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE In this file photo, a picture of Joseph Mann, who was killed by Sacramento Police last July, is displayed at a news conference held by his sister, Deborah, center, and brother, Robert Mann, right, in Sacramento. 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