The Fox News meteorologist who was pummeled by a gang of rowdy teens on a Manhattan subway train says City Hall is blowing it by failing to protect Big Apple straphangers.
“I want someone to be held responsible,” weatherman Adam Klotz said on “Fox & Friends” on
Monday. “Where is the structural change? Put some cops down there. I
want [Mayor] Eric Adams to do something more long-term, that this
wouldn’t happen to someone else.”
Klotz, 37, was riding a No. 1 train home from a bar around 1:15 a.m.
Sunday when he was jumped by a group of weed-smoking teenagers, who
targeted him after he tried to intervene on behalf of an elderly man the
crew was harassing.
“Sure, I could’ve taken a $75 cab ride to get home,” Klotz said on
Fox News. “But most people can’t do that. I can’t do that every single
day. We need these subways. We need a way to get around this city and yet this is what is happening.
“New Yorkers are getting around this way,” he said. “It just needs to be a safer way to do it.”
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News meteorologist Adam Klotz was beaten by a gang of rowdy teens on a
Manhattan subway train, and says the city needs to do more to protect
straphangers.
Klotz said the teens brutally beat him even as he tried to flee to
another car on the train — and while other straphangers on the crowded
train just looked on.
“There was about 25, 30 people on this train car,” Klotz told the Fox
hosts. “There’s an older gentleman across from me and there’s a group
of teens, one of them was lighting a joint. With that lighter, they put
it in the guy’s hair and his hair went up like a matchbox.
“He’s knocking out flames and I’m like, ‘You can’t do that,'” he said.
Klotz said that’s when the teens turned on him.
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News weatherman Adam Klotz said he tried to help an elderly man from a
gang of rowdy teens on a Manhattan subway train when the young thugs
turned on him.
“They were trying to knock me out,” he said. “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 so I couldn’t get
knocked out. And now my side is black and blue, my knee, I can hardly
bend.
“But when it was happening, no one was doing anything,” he added.
“But I mean like, look what happens when you step up for somebody. Like I
tried to step up for somebody and this is what just happened to me.
Like, why would anyone want to do this to themselves?”
After the attack, Klotz — who still had purple bruises on his eyes
during his appearance on the morning TV show — said one straphanger did
try to help and called the cops.
But that person left when the teens came back and started “verbally harassing” Klotz, the weatherman said.
The teens ran off the train at the 18th Street station, but three
were nabbed by cops — and later released to their parents without
charges, authorities said.
The young thugs — two of them are 15 and one is 17 — were given
juvenile reports by police, and could only be charged if Klotz files a
complaint with the city Department of Probation, which would then decide
if it would refer the case to the Law Department.
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weatherman Adam Klotz, who was beaten on a Manhattan subway train
Sunday, says Mayor Eric Adams needs to step up to help protect
straphangers.
The Law Department, not the district attorney, prosecutes juvenile cases in the city.
Asked on “Fox & Friends” if he would pursue charges, Klotz was noncommittal.
“I want someone to be held responsible, but really what I want is
some sort of change. I don’t want this to happen to somebody else, and I
don’t think necessarily just these kids getting in trouble,” he said.
“Like, where’s the structural things?
“I want Eric Adams to do something more long-term that this won’t
happen to somebody else, more than me just getting some sort of revenge
in the short term,” he said.
Asked if he had a message for his young attackers, Klotz said, “Just don’t throw it away.
“Like, they’re not going to get in trouble because they’re 15 and 16
and 17, but don’t do this,” he said. “You’ve got your whole lives. Don’t
throw your lives away and do this again in a few more years. I mean,
it’s not worth it. I’m not worth it. This is not worth it.”
He said he would be thrilled “if something could come from this.”
Klotz also called it “embarrassing” that his beatdown made the front
page of The Post on Monday, holding up a copy of the newspaper on the
air.
He declined to comment to The Post and referred questions to Fox News.
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