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 CLINTON, Utah -- A trip to Wal-Mart ended in a bathroom brawl for a father protecting his children. 
 
 The incident occurred last Sunday afternoon when Chris Adams had taken his 7-year-old son and his 5-year-old daughter to shop for spring cleaning storage bins. During the trip, both children needed to use the bathroom. 
 
 Adams said he took both kids inside the adult men's restroom. At that point, the father claims another man inside the bathroom saw his daughter with Adams and picked a fight that spilled out into the store. 
 
 Adams said the other man kept saying it was inappropriate for her to be in there with them. 
 
 "He comes in and shoves me and so I tell the kids to stay in here," Adams said. "I turn around and I get sucker-punched in the face. I was just thinking I need to get this away from my kids because I didn't know how far it was going to escalate so I just kind of heaved him out of the bathroom." 
 
 Punches were thrown, but Adams took control and pinned the stranger down. 
 
 Police arrived and found the alleged attacker still inside the Wal-Mart. He was cited for disorderly conduct. 
 
 Clinton police say city prosecutors are reviewing the incident to decide whether to press assault charges. 
 
 "He needs to be held accountable and be made an example so this behavior doesn't happen again," Adams said. ||||| CLINTON — A trip to the men’s restroom at a Walmart in Clinton quickly escalated into a full-fledged struggle when one man criticized another for bringing his 5-year-old daughter with him. 
 
 Christopher Adams said his 7-year-old son, Kyler, and 5-year-old daughter, Emery, both had to go when the family visited the store Sunday to buy blinds and storage bins, so he took them both inside the men’s restroom in the back of the store. 
 
 “This guy walks in and goes to the bathroom, the urinal,” Adams recalled Tuesday. “Then he just, like, turns to me and starts freaking out, dropping the ‘F-bomb,’ and what he was freaking out about was that my daughter was in the men’s bathroom.” 
 
 Adams said the man told him it was “inappropriate,” and soon began to push him after Adams gave him a terse response. 
 
 The father said he tried to usher his kids away from the man. 
 
 “When I turned back around, I got sucker-punched right here,” Adams said, pointing to his left eye, which still was bruised. 
 
 From there, Adams said he was punched in the face and kicked in the knee multiple times during the struggle in which the dad ultimately defended himself, forcing the man out of the restroom. 
 
 “I just slammed him on the ground and just held him until associates from Walmart could get there,” Adams said. 
 
 Clinton Police Lt. Shawn Stoker said the man was cited at the scene for disorderly conduct, and the city attorney was screening a potential assault charge. 
 
 Police initially declined to name the man. 
 
 A trip to the men’s restroom at a Walmart in Clinton quickly escalated into a full-fledged struggle when one man criticized another for bringing his 5-year-old daughter with him. 
 
 Stoker acknowledged Adams did what many parents would do to protect their children in public places. 
 
 “This is a situation where a father felt the most reasonable and safe thing for him to do is to take his children inside the restroom with him, and the customer took exception to that,” Stoker said. 
 
 Stoker said better ways for people to address their concerns about what they see in public restrooms include notifying store employees or even calling police. 
 
 Adams, who said he still was experiencing intense pain in his knee and may have possibly suffered broken cartilage around his ribs, maintained he didn’t want to leave his 5-year-old daughter by herself or have her go into another restroom alone. 
 
 “I just think it’s ridiculous,” he said of the man’s outburst. “Not necessarily his intention — but the way he handled the situation was completely wrong.” 
 
 
 
 
 
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– More drama in America's public bathrooms: The New York Daily News reports a Utah father was attacked in a Walmart men's restroom after he brought his 5-year-old daughter in with him. Christopher Adams was shopping for storage bins and window blinds when his daughter and 7-year-old son decided they both needed to go to the bathroom, reports KSL. Not wanting to leave his daughter alone in the store or send her into the women's restroom on her own, Adams took her into the men's restroom with him and his son. That's when the trouble started. Adams says a man at a urinal started "freaking out" and "dropping the F-bomb" over the presence of his daughter, which the man said was "inappropriate." When Adams offered a retort of some kind, the man allegedly started shoving him. Adams says he turned to get his kids out of the restroom and was punched in the eye. He says the man continued to punch and kick him. “I didn't know how far it was going to escalate, so I just kind of heaved him out of the bathroom," Adams tells Fox 13. He says he held the man on the ground until Walmart employees arrived to help. The man was cited for disorderly conduct and could face assault charges. “I just think it’s ridiculous,” Adams tells KSL. (This woman was accosted in a public bathroom by someone who thought she was a man.)