An off-duty New York City firefighter was brutally attacked by a group of teens while walking his dog in Queens.
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The 44-year-old man was walking with his dog Dylan in Juniper Valley Park Friday evening when he was randomly approached by a group of teens. He explained to the New York Post that he was attacked by approximately 100 teens and said one kid called the encounter, “Fight Night.”
“One kid took his shirt off and said, ‘it’s Fight Night!’ He said he was 19 and said, ‘I could fight you.’ Everyone took their cell phones out. There were cell phones everywhere. They all came at me…A kid came up behind me and hit me in the back of the head with a bottle and I let go of the dog,”
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The video clip shows the victim’s dog attempting to protect its owner from the vicious attack but he did fight back until the ambulance came to assist him after witnessing the fight. “Then I was on the floor, holding one kid and an ambulance pulled up. They were waiting by the park … If they weren’t there I would have been in much worse condition,” he said.
He said that a seperate group of kids were also agitated when he told them to stop using illegal fireworks in the park.