New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and Philippine Consul General Elmer Cato (Photo courtesy of Consul General Elmer Cato) MANILA - The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has assured the Philippine government that it is doing its "best" to protect the Filipino community and the rest of the public in the wake of the recent spate of anti-Asian hate violence in the city and the recent death of a Filipina nurse. The assurance was made during a meeting on Thursday between NYC Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, Philippine Consul General Elmer Cato and PCol. Wilson Joseph Lopez, the police attache at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. "Commissioner Shea conveyed his condolences over the death of Maria Luningning [Ambrocio] and said he understood where the Philippine Consulate General was coming from," Cato said in a statement. "He assured me and PCol. Wilson Joseph Lopez, our police attache at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., that the NY
PAYING LAST RESPECTS. Consul General Elmer Cato with Maria Luningning Ambrocio's friends who were with her when the incident happened last Friday. More than 100 members of the Filipino community came to pay their respects to the late Filipina nurse at a memorial in St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York City on October 11. (Photo courtesy of PCG in New York/Evan Abayon) MANILA - The Philippine Consulate General in New York has called on local authorities to take more effective efforts to "make the streets of New York safe again" following the death of nurse Maria Luningning Ambrocio. "While we know that authorities are doing their best, we hope that they exert more serious efforts and make more resources available to make this happen," Consul General Elmer Cato said in his remarks during the memorial mass for the late Filipina on Monday. He said the Filipino community stands in solidarity with many others who have been calling on the city to give more focus on