DAILY NEWS FRONT COVER: Mayor Eric Adams Hurled Racial Slur In 2019 Video

HEADLINES: Mayor sorry for 2019 video, exclusively obtained, where he called some white cops 'crackers' http://bit.ly/3HvhEVY 

Mayor Eric Adams refers to white cops as "crackers" in video captured in 2019.

Mayor Adams bragged in 2019 about being a better cop than his “cracker” colleagues in the NYPD, the Daily News has learned.

Adams, who was at the time gearing up to launch his campaign for mayor, went on the racially charged diatribe while at a private event in Harlem on Dec. 13, 2019, a video exclusively obtained by The News shows.

“Every day in the Police Department, I kicked those crackers’ a--,” Adams says in the video.

“Man, I was unbelievable in the Police Department with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement,” he continued, referring to a police advocacy group he co-founded in the 1990s.

“Became a sergeant, a lieutenant, and a captain. You know the story — some people all of a sudden trying to reinvent me. But the reality is what I was then is who I am now.”

“I definitely apologize. Inappropriate, inappropriate comments, should not have been used,” said Adams, who retired from the NYPD in 2006 after more than two decades as a cop.

“Someone asked me a question using that comment and playing on that word. I responded in that comment, but clearly, these comments should not have been used, and I apologize not only to those who heard it, but to New Yorkers because they should expect more from me. That was inappropriate.”

Adams went on in the video to discuss his forthcoming mayoral campaign, joking that he was expecting so much opposition that perhaps he should “grow a beard, smoke some weed and leave this stuff alone” instead.

”The people who say, ‘Where’s our real Black leaders?’ They’re going to say, ‘Who’s Eric? Why does Eric think he should be mayor?’ Well, Negro, you run. You run, go raise the $7 million,” he said.

“Let me tell you something, man. They are lining up — ‘Eric can’t be mayor.’ In the corners of the city, they are lining up. They know me. They know what I’m about and they know what I’m going to do as the mayor of the City of New York. Listen, we’re not going to play this game.”

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