Nurse Dies After She Is Knocked to Ground in Times Square

Mr. Adams, the Democratic nominee for mayor, condemned Ms. Ambrocio’s death in a Twitter post, blaming the criminal justice system for failing to identify dangerous people and remove them from the streets.

“Again & again, we are seeing the deterioration of our City — & we cannot allow this to continue,” Mr. Adams said. He has called for expanding a law that allows judges to compel people suffering mental illness to receive treatment.

Mr. Foster had been arrested in September and charged with forcible touching after he groped a 30-year-old woman in Times Square, according to the police. Prosecutors asked for bail to be set at $3,000, but a judge released Mr. Foster instead.

Before the incident that killed Ms. Ambrocio, Mr. Foster broke into a 30-year-old woman’s apartment in the garment district earlier on Friday, smashed furniture and demanded money, leaving only after she gave him $15, the police said.

Mr. Foster, whose last known address was in Irvington, N.J., was separately charged with robbery and burglary in that incident. His lawyer at the Legal Aid Society declined to comment.

The consulate said it would host a memorial mass for Ms. Ambrocio on Monday at the St. Francis of Assisi Church on West 31st Street.

Ms. Ambrocio worked for 25 years at Bayonne Medical Center, where she administered chemotherapy to cancer patients. For the last 19 years, Dineen Olivera worked alongside her on the night shift.

Ms. Olivera recalled her colleague as a dedicated nurse who loved to travel, and who was highly active in her church and the Filipino community. She had been looking forward to returning to the Philippines to celebrate her father’s 90th birthday in September, but the country went into lockdown and Ms. Ambrocio’s father subsequently contracted Covid-19 and died, Ms. Olivera said.

During the pandemic, their 12-hour shifts often lasted much longer, but Ms. Ambrocio came to work dutifully, Ms. Olivera said. They cried as patients fought for their lives, but still found reasons to laugh. As intense as the workload became, Ms. Ambrocio never cursed, as nurses often do to relieve stress, Ms. Olivera said with a chuckle.

“She came to work every day, and she fought it out like the rest of us did,” Ms. Olivera said. “She was very dedicated.”

She said it was ironic that her friend was killed by the kind of person she would have given her all to had he been her patient, and Ms. Olivera hoped that he would pay for his actions.

“She had so much more life to live, and for it to be cut short by what appears to be a career criminal, it’s just a tragedy, and it’s awful,” she said.

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So sad. Could you imagine going out like that?

Like I hope death comes to me hard core like a heart attack or car crash, it would be upsetting to think someone pushed me out of the way on the street and I fell down and died.

He had just broken into a woman's apartment and was screaming that he was a prince. Very obviously mental health issues are involved. People can keep saying that we need to do something about these crimes, but until they get serious about mental health, this is going to keep happening.

Oh, that’s okay, he’ll be hospitalized for 72 hours and released on his own recognizance. He didn’t mean for anyone to die, after all.

And bail should be ROR, right, r5?

That isnt the first crime in that area and around penn station. Theyve been targeting older asian women, knocking them off the stairs, not necessarily robbing them.

[quote]“They kept releasing him because he’s not a threat,” said the mother, who asked not be named.

Clearly he is a threat; someone just died because of your bg faulty offspring, you stupid cunt.

Don't know where the "bg" came from...

“I am SO SORRY.”

Another victim of white privilege

R6, yes, of course. Cash bail is an unfair burden on the poor! After all, if he were rich, he’d walk free on bail, right?