Mayor Eric Adams railed against the media and said he’s treated differently as the city’s second Black mayor at the African American Mayors Association in Washington D.C. on Friday.

“You inherit those that are part of an institution that would say we’re going to wait you out,” Adams said. “You inherit those that have their own agenda, who have long relationships with the media, who can leak and slip information and make calls on you.”

A list of grievances that comes a little more than two weeks after his federal corruption case was officially dismissed.

Free to speak his mind, he claimed he was targeted because of the diversity of his administration.

“First African America woman to be a first deputy mayor, first Hispanic to be a police commissioner, first woman to be a police commissioner,” Adams said. “And so when you do these things, you’re going to come under fire. You’re going to come under fire.”

The claims the mayor made on Friday were reminiscent of grievances in another D.C. establishment — with members of the Trump administration railing against the deep state and unfair media coverage.

NY1 spoke to the mayor exclusively after the speech, noting many of his former top deputies were under investigation. One ended up in handcuffs.

“The system of justice we have in our country is innocent until proven guilty and we should never move away from that,” Adams said.

During his address, the mayor contended his accomplishments are often ignored — crime is down, jobs are up — while some say the city is in chaos.

NY1 asked whether that was about his rival, Andrew Cuomo.

“I don’t think it’s only Cuomo,” Adams said. “I think that’s the narrative that’s attempted to be portrayed and when you speak to the other African American mayors, they’ll say that’s the same narrative. African American mayors will tell you how they are portrayed gives the image of incompetence when, in fact, it’s very competent, what we have accomplished.”