From the New York Times:

‘Keep an Eye on This Guy’: Inside Eric Adams’s Complicated Police Career”

For Mr. Adams, becoming a policeman was an act of subversion. Still angry over the beating, he saw “an opportunity to go in and just aggravate people,” he told Liz H. Strong, an oral historian at Columbia University, in a 2015 interview for a collection of reminiscences of retired members of the Guardians Association, a fraternal organization of Black police officers.

Read the entire article: NY Times paywalled article; Columbia access via ProQuest.