Retired NBA great Michael Jordan said he can no longer stay silent amid rising tensions between police and minorities.

“As a proud American, a father who lost his own dad in a senseless act of violence, and a black man, I have been deeply troubled by the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of law enforcement and angered by the cowardly and hateful targeting and killing of police officers,” he said Monday in a statement to The Undefeated. “I grieve with the families who have lost loved ones, as I know their pain all too well.