MANILA, Philippines — “Everyone belongs here,” Manila’s top envoy in New York said as the attacker of a 65-year-old Filipino-American appeared before a criminal court in Manhattan after being charged with assault.
“Today, Brandon Elliot will appear in this Criminal Court, and to him we say Vilma belongs here, Asians in New York belong here, everyone belongs here,” the Philippines’ new consul general in New York, Elmer Cato, said in a statement.
Elliot, 38, was arraigned last week on two charges of second-degree assault as a hate crime and one count of first-degree attempted assault as a hate crime.
This, after police arrested him in his New York residence after he was iden…
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