This appeal stems from plaintiff's arrest and prosecution for menacing in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.14). According to the testimony of the police officers involved in the arrest, a group of pedestrians flagged down the officers to report that plaintiff had threatened them with a knife. Upon approaching plaintiff, the officers observed him holding what appeared to be a knife but later proved to be a pair of needle-nose pliers. A known witness also identified...
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