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).

Dr. Porter says he was one of the first people to see Floyd’s body, upon visiting the funeral home with the man’s loved ones.

Black churches haven’t been vocal enough, Dr. Porter says, in addressing systemic racism and the killing of Black men and women by the police.

We were behind this with Stephon Clark, We were behind this with Joseph Mann when that happened,” Dr. Porter said of the mentally ill man shot and killed by Sacramento police officers in Del Paso Heights in 2016.

Dr. Porter and Genesis Church also played host recently to a listening session between California Governor Gary Newsom and African American community members after protests turned violent here in Sacramento.