Bingo. Adams, like Lightfoot, reacts to the slightest criticism of himself as racist. It’s a learned defensive reflex. He knows calling the rent control lady a plantation owner makes him look bad. He suffers from narcissism. Narcissism is a mental defect.
When Alvin Bragg was charging Jose Alba with murder, for videotaped self defense, Adams came out and said he was not guilty of murder and went to the DA.