People v. Phillips

The defendant was convicted of the crime of disorderly conduct as defined in section 722 of the Penal Law. This provides that a person is guilty of such an offense, who in a city of 500,000 inhabitants with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or by actions whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned, (1) uses offensive, disorderly, threatening or abusive language, conduct or behavior, (2) acts in such a manner as to annoy, disturb, interfere with, obstruct or to be offensive to others, or (4) by his actions causes a crowd to collect. As the respondent states, this conviction was under…