Color of Law, the comment he seems to dislike is when I said, "Let go or I'll cut you".
Montana Code Annotated 2019
TITLE 45. CRIMES
CHAPTER 3. JUSTIFIABLE USE OF FORCE
Part 1. When Force Justified
Use Of Force In Defense Of Person
45-3-102. Use of force in defense of person. A person is justified in the use of force or threat to use force against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that the conduct is necessary for self-defense or the defense of another against the other person's imminent use of unlawful force. However, the person is justified in the use of force likely to cause death or serious bodily harm only if the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent imminent death or serious bodily harm to the person or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
United States Supreme Court case of
Beard v. United States, 158 U.S. 550, 562, 15 S. Ct. 962, 966, 39 L. Ed. 1086 (1895)
Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall Harlan, in
Beard stated that:
“The defendant was where he had the right to be, when the deceased advanced upon him in a threatening manner, and with a deadly weapon; and if the accused did not provoke the assault and had at the time reasonable grounds to believe and in good faith believed, that the deceased intended to take his life or do him great bodily harm,
he was not obliged to retreat, nor to consider whether he could safely retreat, but was entitled to stand his ground and meet any attack made upon him with a deadly weapon, in such way and with such force as, under all the circumstances, he, at the moment, honestly believed, and had reasonable grounds to believe, was necessary to save his own life or to protect himself from great bodily injury.” (my emphasis)
Your warning to the aggressor is not fighting words. You have every right to give a warning to the aggressor. If anything the aggressor instigated an assault. Your AG is way out of line.