SACRAMENTO – They’d say it was all orchestrated by a higher power, but Sacramento’s Genesis Church family clearly played a major role in organizing the recent memorial service in Minneapolis, Minnesota for George Floyd. Floyd died on May 25 yelling out “I can’t breathe” as a White police officer pressed down on his neck with his knee for nearly nine minutes. 
Genesis’ Senior Pastor Dr. Tecoy Porter spearheaded the June 4 service as president of the Sacramento Chapter of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN). Rev. Sharpton delivered eulogies at the memorial service and Floyd’s funeral in Houston the following week.  

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The community, especially the Black people living with and sharing common attitudes and interests, praised Steinberg’s call-to-action. Greater Sacramento Urban League President and CEO Cassandra Jennings and local NAN president Dr. Tecoy Porter verbally applauded the mayor.
“I believe that the changes mayor Steinberg and our city council are calling for in the creation of the independent Inspector General position … and the creation of a new city corps of non-law enforcement responders … are important and significant first steps,” said Dr. Porter.  

​Mayor Darrell Steinberg has announced a proposal for police reform in the city of Sacramento that could include using $5 million from the city’s general fund to create a group of non-law enforcement officials to handle mental-health related 911 calls, and the creation of an inspector general position to look into police shootings and use-of-force incidents. 

His plan comes on the heels of recent demonstrations in Sacramento and nationally that occurred in solidarity with George Floyd. Both the killing of Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the way local police have acted with demonstrators have sparked discussions around police reform. 
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Tecoy Porter, senior pastor of Genesis Church in Sacramento’s Meadowview neighborhood said the bill wouldn’t “change the heart and mind of a racist,” but would “at least make them think twice” before using the strangling tactic.
“Nobody deserves to die with a knee on their neck,” Porter said.

Before the memorial, Porter drove to 38th Street and Chicago Avenue — the street corner where Floyd died now a sacred space in that city — following along the same south Minneapolis route his school bus drove as a child. ​
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​Before the governor spoke, he met with those leaders to discuss the state’s response to the violence and unrest across California. Genesis Church Pastor Tecoy Porter talked briefly prior to Gov. Newsom taking the podium. 
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Sunday finally came.

A long week in America began with a black man slowly dying under the knee of a white officer on a Minneapolis street corner and exploded into angry, fiery protest in cities across the country and here in Sacramento. On Sunday, a son of that fractured Midwest city prayed in Sacramento to heal a nation in chaos, root out police brutality and confront “the sin of racism.”

Pastor Tecoy Porter of Sacramento’s Genesis Church turned to Ezekiel and the story of the Valley of Dry Bones.

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 Education may not have been the official theme of the National Action Network’s first Western Regional Conference, but it was clearly the primary focus of the gathering.
The civil rights organization convened the meeting Feb. 5 through Feb. 7, at the Genesis Church in South Sacramento, where the Rev. Tecoy Porter—who also serves as president of the Sacramento chapter of NAN—is the pastor.
https://www.blackvoicenews.com/2020/02/12/the-children-are-our-future-national-action-networks-first-west-coast-conference-shouts-education/