Viewed in a light most favorable to the People, the evidence showed that defendant was part of a mob that descended on the job site, not to request jobs, but to terrorize an insufficiently compliant contractor by presence in force and with crude weaponry, in full public view and with obviously intended public consequences, and was ample to prove intent to cause "public alarm" (Penal Law § 240.06 [a]).
By acquiescing in joinder of defendant's and codefendant Ortiz...
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