NEW YORK - Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams have spotlighted the disproportionate harm caused to black and Latino New Yorkers.

Now, frustrated by the local and state response, they’re leading a call for the Republican president to launch a civil rights probe into their fellow Democrats.

"Right here, the decisions that were made were not made by Donald Trump,” Williams told NY1. “They were made by Andrew Cuomo, and they were made by Bill de Blasio. And they were too slow, they weren't bold enough, and they never adapted.”

Thirty-five local and state officials of color from across the country have signed onto a letter calling on Trump's Department of Justice to investigate possible civil rights violations by executive leaders.

Their allegations include unequal access to information and resources, unequal distribution of protective gear to hospitals, unequal rollout of COVID-19 testing sites and law enforcement’s targeting of young people of color who were wearing masks.

Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have acknowledged that Coronavirus has hurt these communities more than others.

“When you look at the racial breakdown of who’s getting hospitalized, you see it’s disproportionately minorities, disproportionately African-American and Latino,” Cuomo said at a news conference Wednesday.

“I hear the concerns, I hear the criticisms. There's been some very positive constructive ideas from, for example, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams or Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams,” de Blasio said at a news conference Thursday.

Neither Cuomo nor de Blasio’s office responded to questions about the letter to the DOJ.

Williams and Adams said they're looking to the federal government because exacerbated racial disparities are a nationwide scourge.

Adams lauded the DOJ's subpoena powers and noted that it's crime to lie to an FBI agent.

“There is no better investigatory arm in the country, if not the globe, than the Department of Justice,” Adams said.

The DOJ didn’t respond to questions on whether they’d take up the call to probe local governments for civil rights abuses.