His briefing is a little more than 30 minutes. Good morning. I am the pastor of the Genesis Church in south sacramento. I am also press of the National Network here in south california and state chair. It is so important to have a clear voice in this hour. And Governor Newsom has been that not just for california, but also for the nation. We just got through meeting in regards to what we all believe is happening in america is a double pandemic. The first pandemic we are so well aware of and that is with the coronavirus. This has impacted so many, we have crossed that threshold of 100,000 persons being impacted and dying and our nation. And then the impact against some many in our nations heart wrenching. And then we had this other virus going on we are seeing in minneapolis, what happened to george floyd. That viruses racism. I am happy to say that we are actually speaking against that were talking about that. We have a governor here that is going to call that out. Im glad we just had a conversation with myself, him and other leaders there calling this other virus out. This virus that is not impacting just the black or brown community, but impacting our nation and facing that. And so, i am glad to welcome our governor here and welcome you to this press conference. And i guess the meeting after the meeting. And so, thank you governor for coming. Welcome to genesis, welcome to sacramento. Governor . Thank you pastor porter. Thank you to all of those that are assembled here behind the cameras. That took the time to reach out and connect not just with me but with one another to talk about the states not only of the state of california but the state of this nation. More broadly the world that we live in. Todays meeting, like so many that i have had our humbling. The voices of concern, consternation, anxiety are real and raw. I recognize foundational in so often people in my position are inadequate to the moment. So often we try to meet the moment with the rhetoric. We fain resolve, we make a point to assert a new paradigm. And yet over and over and over again we hear the nays of those whose lives have been lost, have been taken, justice that was never advanced. And communities continuing to feel they are not only being torn asunder, but not being listened to. I fear, as i know Many Americans fear that we can be back in that moment. Every moment your net feels like a different moment every moment were in it we think we will do thing fundamentally different but yet over, and over, and over, and over again we do not meet that next moment. Over and over and over again we fail to rationalize the goodwill henley failed to materialize and manifest the ideals that we so often assert. So i come here today, place of worship, humbled by that past. Humbled by the fact i have been part of that past is a former county supervisor and mayor, former lieutenant governor, governor of the nations largest state. The question i have to ask myself the question we ask ourselves is are we capable of not just meeting this moment, but capable of doing justice to the moments in front of us. I can put together a group of advisors, i can put together task force, i can promise and promote a few pieces of legislation, but i said this on friday and ill say it again, program passing is not problemsolving got to change hearts, minds, culture not just laws. We have to own up to some very difficult things. The black community is not responsible for whats happening in this country right now, we are. We are. Our institutions are responsible, we are accountable to the smoke we have a unique responsibility for our community in the country and we have been planning that for generations. Generations. Things move away, the headlines we indulge on the margins. But we do not systemically, foundational he addressed the roots of these issues. We prune, we do not tear out the institutional racism for all of our institutions large and small. We dont tell me know that. The Community Knows that you see it manifested in the streets the last five days, they know that. The question is do people understand that. Are we prepared to do something differently about that . Each and every one of us, what are we going to do differently, foundational he, fundamentally in the short run but in the long run to do justice to this moment. People have lost patience because they have not seen progress. So if you are out there saying people need to be patient, considerate people have lost patience for a reason they have been told that over and over and over and over again. Not just the 52 years ive been around, my parents, grandparents their parents generation heard the same just be patient. Heck, i have quoted doctor king at nausea towards justice. Weve made progress, is a manifestation of everything we have been promoting we have not delivered. People have lost patience. And if leaders are going to meet not just in this moment but the moments in front of us, the better start listening. We better start hearing people. The better own up to her own responsibility or unaccountability that led to this moment. Society becomes how we behave. We are our behaviors. Each and every one of us has an obligation to do more and better. Folks in my position, i get that. I own that. Leaders can be found everywhere. Leadership is not some fancy title. We are desperate for leadership in this country desperate for leadership in the state of california communitys large and small leaders can be found anywhere you dont have to be something to do something to soften the edges in the spirit of Bobby Kennedy were more gentle this life of this world. Doctor king to not wait to become president of the United States to exercise his authority. Every day hes had his moral authority each and every one of us has the capacity to exercise their moral authority every day. We need moral leaders now more than ever and it resides inside of us arts our capacity to lead by example to find our better angels to focus on the things that unite us not divide us. We recognize we have to do things differently we are resolved to prove that. Not just assert that into hold ourselves to account because each of us will be judged and we will judge each other to the extent we do justice in a different way i am here as your governor, humble over the last five days resolved to keep the peace for recognizing an armed camp is not a place of peace the violence is not more violence and if we are going to create the conditions to truly advance Police People have to know we made it they have to know they matter and we care. For those of you out there, protesting, i want you to know you matter. I want you know i care, we care. Once you to know i have a unique responsibility to prove that to you. Youve lost patience, so have i. You are right to feel wronged. You are right to feel the way you are feeling, and we, collectively, society has a responsibility to you to be better and to do better. To those who want to exploit this moment, that went to blame the violence and fear, we hear you as well we dont have the same sensitivities as it relates to those that are trying to exercise their voice for a place of hurt and pain. When you try to cause pain on others when youre there to exploit conditions not advance the cause of justice that is not serving the greater good we need to also call that out. The looting, the violence, the threats, against fellow human beings that is no place in this state and nation. We as a Society Needs cult that out. We need to call forth the better angels and those that want to express themselves and have thank you god bless you keep doing it your rage is real, express it. So we can hear it lets not let others drowned out that rage and those that want to advance this cause, in a responsible and thoughtful way. Im not patient any longer i know you are not. We hear you, and we have a responsibility now to prove to not just to assert that we are capable of being more and doing better as a society and the community. I want to express my deep gratitude my deep humility to those leaders every stripe that all across the state and our nation are doing justice in this moment those demonstrators there reaching out trying to calm other people those Community Leaders that were out there with brooms in the Early Morning sleeping up glass, the folks that were on the periphery that said you know i cant stand on that in a longer i need to be part of this effort, thank you to all of your examples as well. So much good and so much life is out there there is a stain on the country we have concealed and it is rearing its head again because we never come to grips with it. We never owned it. It is the issue of racism and pastor is exactly right. Pandemic on top of a pandemic. Impacting her health impacting our economy, impacting our capacity to live up to the greatest ideals. We can talk about being bound together by whatever mutuality is that doctor king said if thats the case we need to reconcile the fact we are all in this together. The bible teaches us we are many, many parts. But at the end of the day we are one body and when one part suffers we all suffer we have an obligation to reconcile the fact that our faith is tied to the fate of others. South africa, i am because you are. Time for more empathy or care. Or capacity to collaborate. Society is about dominance and aggression. Its what you get. Not because of the protesters but the conditions that led to this moment. When protest was inevitable. So, we are committed and resolved to bringing peace back to the streets, not only in this statement to support the efforts all across this nation. We will do our part, but its not just a situational moment. We have to focus on the medium and long term and we have to prove our commitment and resolve in that space i just want to thank all of the leaders not only assembled here but throughout the state once again for your courage because now is a time for courage. Now is the time for your voice to be brought to the forefront. Let me thank all of those who are doing their best to keep people safe under very difficult circumstances and all of those leaders that are out there supporting others keeping people safe, our communities large and small, all across the state of california safe through this very trying and difficult moments. With that, we are happy to take any questions, weve course happy to also step aside and have members of the community respond as well. Reporter thank you governor from the Sacramento Bee i will be asking questions on behalf of the press corps today. Many of us would like to know what your reaction is to trumps comments this morning to governors to get tough on protesters. With the meeting i just had is what the words i just spoke my reaction is my commitment to the people of the state the most diverse state in the worlds most diverse democracy to focus on the things that unites us and not divides us. To make sure people are safe, but to make sure people recognize that there is something that lies deep underneath came to the floor and needs to be dealt with its equivalency of energy focus and resolve. We will provide the resources as needed to members of our Community Leaders all up and down the state of california but we must resolve to provide those resources to address the systemic problems at the same time. You have avoided criticizing the president since the start of the pandemic should we interpret your comments today as a criticism of what he said this morning . I have a choice we all have a choice i can be part of the daily backandforth and the new cycle and continue to perpetuate the problems that persist in this country i care more about them than some of the noise i heard on the morning phone call. Reporter you said the country needs leadership right now. Do you think the president as providing adequate leadership . As i said leadership can be found anywhere. The absence of leaders people in positions of formal authority, we have people that exercise moral authority every day. Church leaders, Community Leaders, faith based leaders of all stripes, teachers, parents, caregivers, people, strangers walking the street that exercise their moral authority by trying to soften the edges of people who are out to do more harm and create more violence. Leaders and Law Enforcement that meet the at this moment realize the empathy thats called for as well. That kind of leadership is desperately needed in this nation and is ample that people begin to exercise it that is my hope and that is my resolve is to find those leaders to call for more of that kind of leadership in this country. Reporter for tonight with managing the protest engine with breakins and thefts in particular what changes or tactics you are supporting to be at the confrontations of violence and damage. Were working with mayors, cities and counties large and small control moral authority, to address the issue of violence. As many know, we have been working with the mayors on deploying National Guard to resources in the state of california has a lump has Highway Patrol which is been on tactical alert for days on 12 hour shifts upanddown the state of california repositioned and also strike teams to react. The National Guard was brought up over 3400 National Guards men and women were called up today we added another 1100 so we have over 4500 National Guard men and women that are available throughout the state of california. Part of the protocols of munich country mutual aid is a bottom up not topdown process. Mayors work with their chiefs working to coordinate and collaborate the deployment of this teams. The National Guard as you know have been already distributed parts of the state disproportionately concentrated in Southern California but in Northern California we have people preassembled. We have folks in other parts of the state that have been called back up. But thousands and thousands of National Guardsmen and women. By the way who are also members of the community. Many putting on their uniform, dentists, doctors, folks working construction that are part of that group that are participating. And theyre making sure we keep the peace and will continue to meet the request we believe of every mayor and every police chief in the state. Theyve done so, so far and we intend to continue to. s are you waiting for local leaders to ask you for help before deploying more National Guards men or women are are we proactively sending them to places you think they need help . You cannot proactively send the men without creating more problems than you fix. If the state of california from the state capital is sending National Guard men and women without collaboration and coordination to the mutual aid system, the spirit of collaboration and the county level, and the local level, then that is a recipe for more problems. The process we have today is wellestablished and very formal. It is a mutual aid process. Its established as to proxy examples in the bay area and oakland and san francisco. San francisco had mutual aid yesterday from Tulare County from Santa Barbara county other parts of the state coming in to provide mutual aid in the city and county of san francisco. Similarly mutual aid from other regions into oakland and other parts of the state. A mutual aid approach first working the chp to coordinate and collaborate as it relates to efforts on freeways. As it relates to jurisdictions where those lines begin to blur, and the National Guard on top of that for logistical support. But all of that is done through a command and support structure that has a local framework that is appropriate in order to keep all these jurisdictions and keep Law Enforcement approach in a very organized manner to keep people safe. Reporter are you planning any statewide actions to deal with the protest tonight . Like a statewide curfew or anything like that . We believe the conditions are very different in the north versus other parts of the state, like places in san diego are different than even from here in the bay area. Each and every jurisdiction has a former mayor. I understand this intimately, has made decisions based on conditions as they see them in real time. Curfew says early as 1 00 p. M. In some parts of the state. Others as late as 8 00 p. M. That is a determination made by the experts on the ground, based on the conditions in their communities. Statewide, we have 7000 california Highway Patrol. Again, for tactical alert and have been for days with protective gear all up and down the state of california. Working again to deploy the National Guard an additional 1100 guards men and women that are deployed just today, thousands over the last few days. We are looking we have very many National Guardsmen working on Covid Response were looking at a subset of those on the Covid Response to see if we can preposition to make them available to meet the needs of communities all across the state of california. So substantial support from the state of california. And obviously robust local support, mutual aid system well defined well organized county overlay with county sheriffs working with chp and ultimately with the National Guard. Reporter the next question is with the New York Times should like to know how worried you are about the spread of covid19 at these protests and how the status tracking any related spread. After we saw testing sites closed in los angeles as the curfews went into effect, how are you and local authorities are making sure people can get tested . We went everybody to get tested when everybody took on the covid website, type in your zip code and youll see the closest site for Testing Available and open today. Yesterday, we conducted over 67000 tasks, day four and five