Not far from the upheaval in Baltimore, Loretta Lynch was sworn in as the nation’s first African-American woman attorney general at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

Loretta Lynch: “If a little girl from North Carolina, who used to tell her grandfather in the fields to lift her up on the back of his mule so she could see way up high, granddaddy, can grow up to become the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America, we can do anything.”

Lynch released a statement on the situation in Baltimore, vowing to “bring the full resources of the Department of Justice to bear in protecting those under threat, investigating wrongdoing, and securing an end to violence.” The Justice Department is investigating Freddie Gray’s death.