Pharrell Williams is very well in tune with what’s going on in the world. Appearing on CNN for a conversation about the situation in Ferguson, Skateboard P weighed in with his own thoughts about Michael Brown’s untimely death.

“I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed in the way that it was handled from the government side. I think that officer should be punished because that was excessive force,” the super-producer said.

Watch Pharrell give his input in the clip above.