Fox News meteorologist Adam Klotz recalls brutal NYC subway attack: 'Trying to knock me out'
Klotz, who was attacked over the weekend by a group of teens on a New York City subway, joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the vicious assault.
Fox News meteorologist Adam Klotz was brutally attacked on the New York City subway by a group of teens over the weekend.
Klotz was on his way home after watching the Giants-Eagles NFL playoff game at a Manhattan bar shortly before he noticed a group of teens harassing an "older gentleman," and had set his hair on fire with a joint.
"I was like, whoa, you can't do that," Klotz said "Fox & Friends." "That's not cool, and that's all it took, and then I was the focus of all their attention."
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"I want there to be something done. … Why is the weather guy on the train trying to stop crime in the middle of the night? Like, where is Eric Adams? Where's the city? Why am I doing this? Why is it up to me?"
Mayor Eric Adams is pictured in Times Square in October. On Friday, officials in his administration said the mayor took two days off starting Thursday, but they would not say where he was spending his time away. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
He said the group was taunting him, and he tried to remove himself from the situation, but the attack did not stop there.
The group followed him to another subway car.
"I get off that train after taking a punch," Klotz said. "The whole group, the doors open again at another stop, the whole group just comes and bum rushes me, and suddenly I'm like, on the ground. I'm getting kicked in the side. I'm getting wailed on.
"They were trying to knock me out, and then once you're unconscious, and you're getting punched like there's no defense, so I was just doing my absolute best to cover my head," he continued.
"So I kind of get knocked out, and now my side is black and blue. My knee, I can hardly bend because I was getting kicked and punched."
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Klotz was treated at a local hospital after the assault.
Three of the teen suspects were stopped by police in connection with the attack, but they were released to their parents without facing charges.
"Juvenile reports were prepared, and their parents were called to pick them up," a rep for the NYPD told The New York Post.
"What I want is some sort of change," Klotz said. "I don't want this to happen to somebody else, and I don't think necessarily just these kids getting in trouble, like, where's the structural things? Like, put some cops down there."
"I want Eric Adams to do something more long term so that this won't happen to somebody else, more than me just getting some sort of revenge in the short term."
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