New York Prosecutors Training Institute
NYPTI Law - NYS Statutes
ยง 120.18 Menacing a police officer or peace officer.
A person is guilty of menacing a police officer or peace officer when
he or she intentionally places or attempts to place a police officer or
peace officer in reasonable fear of physical injury, serious physical
injury or death by displaying a deadly weapon, knife, pistol, revolver,
rifle, shotgun, machine gun or other firearm, whether operable or not,
where such officer was in the course of performing his or her official
duties and the defendant knew or reasonably should have known that such
victim was a police officer or peace officer.
Menacing a police officer or peace officer is a class D felony.
