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Local Pastor Grows Into Activist Role

30/6/2020

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Genoa Barrow | The Sacramento Observer

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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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http://sacobserver.com/2020/06/local-pastor-grows-into-activist-role/​​

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Mayor Reveals Police Reform Plan

24/6/2020

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Antonio Harvey | The Sacramento Observer

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.  
Read More: sacobserver.com/2020/06/mayor-reveals-police-reform-plan/
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Sacramento Mayor Announces Plans For Police Reform

15/6/2020

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Sarah Mizes-Tan | Capital Public Radio News

​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. 

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Chokeholds, rubber bullets and tear gas targeted in California police reform proposals

8/6/2020

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HANNAH WILEY AND  MACKENZIE HAWKINS | The Sacramento Bee

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.
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article243368251.html#storylink=cpy
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‘A long day’: Sacramento pastor with Twin Cities roots joins in George Floyd’s goodbye

6/6/2020

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Darryl Smith | The Sacramento Bee

It had been a long day for Tecoy Porter Sr. The Sacramento pastor returned to his hometown of Minneapolis this week, a city shattered by police violence and the fiery protest that followed, to say goodbye to George Floyd.  Porter, senior pastor of Genesis Church on Meadowview Road , was among the ministers who helped coordinate the Thursday memorial service for the Houston man who had found a fresh start in the Twin Cities — now the epicenter of worldwide outrage and shared grief after his death at the hands of police.  
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. ​
www.sacbee.com/news/local/article243321626.html
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A Balancing Act for California’s Democratic Leaders

2/6/2020

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Jill Cowan | The New York Times

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​Mr. Newsom was flanked by the Rev. Tecoy Porter of Genesis Church in Sacramento, who described the “double pandemic” afflicting black communities. 

“The black community is not responsible for what’s happening in this country — we are,” the governor said. “People have lost patience for a reason.”
Read More: www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/california-george-floyd-protests.html
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‘A Pandemic On Top Of A Pandemic’; Newsom Acknowledges Systemic Racism Fueling Protests

1/6/2020

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San Francisco CBS Local

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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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Read More: ​sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/01/newsom-systemic-racism-pandemic-on-top-of-pandemic-george-floyd-protests/
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Sacramento pastor prays to root out ‘sin of racism’ after George Floyd’s death, protests

31/5/2020

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Darrell Smith | The Sacramento Bee

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.

Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/local/article243152526.html#storylink=cpy
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The Children Are Our Future: National Action Network’s First West Coast Conference Shouts Education

12/2/2020

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​Tanu Henry | California Black Media

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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/

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