One of the things that bothered Charles Village resident Zackary Berger about being handcuffed and frisked by police Wednesday was the fact that neither the officer involved nor the detective he’d spoken to later had said, “I’m sorry.”

Last night – after Berger’s experience was circulated on Facebook, recounted in The Brew, retweeted by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, and inquired about by some other local reporters – Berger got a call from Maj. Richard Gibson of the Northern District.

Was it an apology?

Berger, a Johns Hopkins physician and assistant professor, ended up thanking Gibson for “his time and his politeness, as well as his apology” but concluded afterwards he felt “unapologized-to.”

“Or, rather, the recipient of something even worse: a pseudo apology which reinforces the sense that Baltimore Police misses the point, and is only calling me because I’m white and work at Hopkins,” Berger wrote on Medium.

In his first Medium post, Berger had described what happened on Wednesday at about 8:40 a.m. near Yum’s Asian Bistro:

Berger said he was going to the CVS pharmacy at the corner of 25th and Charles streets to get medicine for his daughter when he was stopped, handcuffed and frisked by a Baltimore police  officer who asked “Did you get a pill bottle from that guy?”

The next day, when Maj. Gibson spoke with him on the phone about the experience, Berger said, this is how Gibson started off.

“’I am sorry that that had to happen to you [sic],’ he began.

‘What?’ I said.

‘The incident with the handcuffing.’

Ah, I responded, wondering why it ‘had’ to happen to me, precisely, and what he was sorry for if it ‘had’ to happen.

Things got weirder from there.”

To read Berger’s full account of the conversation, go here.