Michelle Obama posted on Twitter a statement about the shooting of protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this week and the police violence that preceded it.

She condemned the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Wisconsin man shot seven times by police in front of his children, as well as the shooting of two protesters, allegedly by a 17-year-old rightwing militant, in the protests that followed. Obama said she was “exhausted and frustrated” at the trauma Black and Brown people in the US are enduring once again.

The former first lady had some pointed words for the Trump administration as well, condemning the “lack of empathy, division stoked in times of crisis, and age-old and systemic racism” that is seen across the country, on the news and “from the White House Rose Garden” as stoking such violence.

She concluded by encouraging Americans to vote, keep protesting, and encourage reform across the country.

“We need to reach out to people, and ask them to search their hearts and listen to their inner voices - the voices that say this simply isn’t right,” she said. “Because when that happens, the change we seek cannot be denied.”