NYC Mayor Eric Adams apologizes for referring to white NYPD officers as 'crackers' in a 2019 video

• A 2019 video of now-New York City Mayor Eric Adams using the word "cracker" resurfaced.
• "Every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers' ass, man," Adams said in the video.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams apologized Friday for calling white New York Police Department officers "crackers" in a video from 2019, before his tenure as mayor, $4.

"Every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers' ass, man," Adams, who is a former NYPD captain, said a private event in December 2019. "I was unbelievable."

Adams said Friday that his remarks came in response to someone else who used $4 (which the $4 did a fascinating in-depth investigation of) in a question.

"Clearly, it's a comment that should not be used," Adams said on Friday. "I apologize; not only to those who heard it but to New Yorkers because they should expect more from me."

He added that a portion of his time in the NYPD was spent dealing with racism.

"My fight, you know, my fight in the police department was fighting racism throughout my entire journey and I was serious about fighting against that," he said.

The President of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, Patrick J. Lynch, released a $4 that said, "We have spent far too many hours together in hospital emergency rooms these past few weeks, and we've worked together for decades before that. A few seconds of video will not define our relationship."

Adam's office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.