A group of vicious teenaged thugs attacked at least two people and severely beat a Fox News meteorologist in the early morning hours on Sunday. Fox News personality Adam Klotz reported that the thugs, aged 15-17, lit one citizen’s hair on fire before turning their attention to him after he told the gang to leave the citizen alone.
Klotz claimed that the gang consisted of seven or eight young individuals, of whom three — two 15-year olds and a 17-year-old — were later detained by police but were released into the custody of guardians. Klotz attempted to stop the thugs from harassing another passenger.
In an Instagram video the day after the attack, Klotz described the event: “I was like, ‘Yo, guys, cut that out.’ And they decided, ‘All right, if he’s not going to get it, you’re going to get it.’ And boy did they give it to me,” Klotz reported. “They had me on the ground. My ribs are all bruised up, too. They got their hits in.”
Klotz, looking bruised and swollen, recounted the terrifying event on Fox and Friends on Monday. The meteorologist described a relatively crowded subway train with “25 to 30” people on the car when he noted another rider being harassed by the group of teenagers.
“There’s an older gentleman just across from me, and there’s a group of teens and one’s lighting a joint — and just with that lighter, they put it in the guy’s hair, and his hair went up like a matchbook,” Klotz said.
When Klotz spoke up on behalf of the other rider, the alleged criminals turned their attention on him. Klotz spoke of trying to get away from the group, only to be followed across several subway cars, the entire time being pummeled by the youth gang. At an upcoming stop, Klotz attempted to leave the train only to have the group attack him on the platform.
“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,” Klotz said.
The weatherman described the youths saying, “Put him to sleep, put him to sleep!”
“They were trying to knock me out,” Klotz concluded.
“I want there to be something done,” Klotz said. “It’s more like, why is the weatherguy on the train trying to stop crime in the middle of the night. Like, where is [New York City Mayor] Eric Adams, where is the city? Why am I doing this? Why is it up to me?”
Klotz may be putting his trust in the wrong hands if he expects New York City government to do anything to solve the problem. In 2022, crime on the New York subway reportedly rose by 30 percent despite supposedly deploying thousands of additional police patrols.
And now, instead of being behind bars sweating out what’s going to happen to them as far as forthcoming sentencing, in New York’s bizzaro-world justice system, the young thugs were simply released into the care of their guardians, who didn’t know or care where their children were at 1:30 a.m.
“Juvenile reports were prepared, and their parents were called to pick them up,” an NYPD spokesman said.
In New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s view, the vicious gang was not worthy of his time because they were juveniles. Perhaps if Klotz had been a weatherman for MSNBC instead of Fox, justice could have been served.
Many in the city are up in arms about the DA’s blasé attitude concerning the attack. The recent attack comes only a week after Bragg raised eyebrows when he offered a plum plea deal to 24-year-old Waseem Awawdeh, who was part of another gang attack on a 29-year-old Jewish man. Awawdeh and others beat Joseph Borgen with crutches, punched and kicked him, and pepper sprayed him, all while shouting anti-Semitic slurs.
Awawdeh was charged with a hate crime, which is supposed to be a big deal in a city run by leftists. But even though Awawdeh said to a jailer of the crime, “If I could do it again, I would do it again,” Bragg’s office reportedly offered him a plea deal to serve only six months for the vicious crime.
Bragg was elected DA in November of 2021 even after he promised to only use incarceration “as a matter of last resort.” One wonders when that “last resort” becomes necessary in Bragg’s world? If not in the case of a violent assault that could have turned out far worse than it did, then when?
