A group of teenagers beat up a Fox News anchor in a New York subway car
'23.01.2023'
Nadezhda Verbitskaya
A Fox News weather anchor was severely beaten on a New York subway after he asked a group of teenagers to stop molesting an elderly man, reports Daily Mail.
Adam Klotz, 37, was attacked by "five or six" teenagers who punched him in the face and kicked him in the chest. As a result, he has a bruise under his eye and bruised ribs.
Three teenagers, two of whom were 15 years old and one 17, were detained by the police. They wrote down their details and contacted their parents to pick them up on the morning of January 22.
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Klotz in Instagram story showed the wounds on his face and spoke of an incident that took place around 1:15 am near the 18th Street station on train 1.
He was on the subway home after watching an NFL playoff game when he saw teenagers molesting an older man.
“While returning home last night after watching a game in a bar, an older gentleman was molested on the subway by a group of seven or eight teenagers,” he said.
Klotz added: "I said, 'Hey guys, stop it.' And they thought, "Okay, he won't get it, then you'll get it." They threw me to the ground and started beating me. My ribs are all bruised.”
The elderly man he was protecting was fine and was able to walk away unscathed.
“We have drawn up protocols for minors. We called their parents to pick them up,” an NYPD spokesman said.
Klotz's face is bruised, and both eyelids are flushed and purple. But the TV presenter said that his injuries would heal.
“I got x-rayed. It will all live. So it's all right,” he said.
It seems that apart from those three, the rest of the teenagers managed to escape.
Subway crime up 2022% in 30 compared to 2021
Crime in the metro increased last year. But Mayor Eric Adams suggested that these statistics are only a reflection of the fact that more people use the subway in post-pandemic New York.
In 2022, subway crime increased by 30%, which is more. At the same time, the total crime in the city increased by 22%.
In response to the high crime rate in the subway, the city is trying to send more police officers to the stations.
