PEOPLE v. BRANNON

The court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. There is no basis for disturbing the court's credibility determinations ( see People v Prochilo, 41 NY2d 759, 761). The combination of defendant's suspiciously evasive conduct, the officer's observation that defendant was carrying what was at the least a large and possibly dangerous knife, and defendant's acknowledgment, in response to a proper common-law inquiry, that he had a knife, permitted the officer to conduct a self-protective frisk ( see People v Batista, 88 NY2d 650, 654; People v Benjamin, 51 NY2d 267, 271; see also People v King, 102 AD2d 710, affd 65 NY2d 702).