A prominent African-American law enforcement official says Hillary Clinton engaged in 'disgusting' and 'dehumanizing' pandering to black voters when she told a trio of Harlem radio hosts that she never goes anywhere without hot sauce in her purse.

'I'm surprised she didn't say "watermelon" – just go all the way,' Milwaukee County, Wisconsin's Democratic sheriff David Clarke jabbed Wednesday morning on the Fox News Channel's 'Fox & Friends' program.

'You know, this stuff is dehumanizing. It's embarrassing. It's disgusting,' he said.

'And if any other candidate were to say something like that, some stereotype about black people, it would derail their campaign. But the rules seem to be different for the Clintons.'

DON'T SAY IT! Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Democratic African-American sheriff David Clarke hammered Hillary Clinton for pandering to black voters with her claim that she always carries hot sauce with her: 'I'm surprised she didn't say "watermelon"'

HEATING UP THE CAMPAIGN: Clinton drew howls after her Harlem radio broadcast

Clinton, who won Tuesday's Democratic New York primary handily on Tuesday over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, made a campaign visit to the New York radio program 'The Breakfast Club' with hosts DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God.

The trio broadcasts to a nearly entirely black audience from New York City's Harlem neighborhood.

'What's something you always carry with you?' Yee asked her.

'Hot sauce,' Clinton shot back without skipping a beat.

Charlamagne pointed out that 'Hot sauce in my bag, swag' is a line in Beyonce's racially charged song 'Formation.'

'Now, I just want you to know people are going to see this and say "Okay, she's pandering to black people,'' he told Clinton.

'Okay, is it workin'?' she shot back.

TURNCOAT? Clarke, a four-time elected Democrat, said 'nothing's getting better' for African-Americans in cities where Democratic Party officials have political control

'SO PHONY': Donald Trump said Tuesday morning that Clinton is no more likely to carry hot sauce at all times than he is

Clarke said Clinton's gambit likely fooled no one, but also suggested black voters should look beyond the 'D' or 'R' that runs next to candidates' names.

'Black people know they're being pandered to,' he said, adding that 'nothing has gotten better' for African-Americans in places where they live 'under Democratic control.'

'You go to all these cities where there's high poverty, there's now high levels of crime and violence. They're all run by liberal Democratic mayors, liberal Democrat politicians. Nothing's getting better.'

Clarke, 59, has been elected sheriff in Wisconsin's most populous county four times as a Democrat.

But 'I don't tell people to vote for a party,' he said. 'I tell them to vote for a person. I never say in my home town when I'm up for election, you know, "Vote for me because I run as a Democrat".'

Donald Trump, who won his own Empire State primary by a decisive margin, said Tuesday that he doubted Clinton actually carried hot sauce with her on the campaign trail.

'It's the same thing she always does,' Trump said dismissively. 'She carries hot sauce like I carry hot sauce. It's just – I don't know, so phony, and so pandering and so terrible.

Clarke said Trump is still well-positioned to win the Republican presidential nomination even though he has been 'outfoxed' and 'outmaneuvered' by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's strategy of scooping up Republican National Convention delegates through arm-twisting at statewide political conventions instead of at the ballot box.

But Republican elites have 'tried to bury Donald Trump now a number of times,' he warned, saying that after Cruz won the Wisconsin primary 'they were shoveling dirt on his grave again.

Clarke proposed a new nickname for Trump.

'Let's call him "el gato," Spanish for the cat,' he said. 'This guy seems to have nine lives. Every time he has a defeat or a stumble, if you will, he just seems to come back.'

Clinton has attracted unwanted attention with recent questions about whether she takes unreasonable steps to appear sympathetic to the black voters whose support she will sorely need in order to be competitive in a November general election.

Ebony magazine editor-in-chief Kierna Mayo challenged her in February about 'things like the Kwanzaa kinara that you posted on Twitter, or even "dabbing" on "The Ellen Show".'

TEXAS PETE (IN SOUTH CAROLINA): Hillary had hot sauce nearby for this cafe stop during her first run at the presidency in 2008

Mayo asked Clinton how she ensured that 'the richness of the legacy and history is not lost and that you don’t take short cuts to black audiences that you think might work.'

'Well, I certainly don’t intend to,' Hillary responded.

Clinton has also been pilloried for affecting a southern black accent when she appears before African-American audiences to speak about police shootings and other racially charged topics.

The question of whether she actually carries hot sauce wherever she goes is difficult to pin down since presidential candidates seldom carry purses, briefcases or other bags on their persons. So-called 'body men' – personal assistants who look after their belongings on the road – usually do that.

But the Clinton campaign told Time magazine that the Democratic White House hopeful favors a brand of hot sauce called Ninja Squirrel, a Sriracha variant available exclusively at Whole Foods.