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Originally Posted by btmj
What you did was commit assault,
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The exact definition may vary by jurisdiction but what the OP did certainly was not "assault" in NY law. All forms of assault in NY require physical harm.
I don't see any section of NY Penal Code that would prohibit what the OP did. Preparing to defend yourself in the face of an obviously imminent assault is not illegal.
Of course, neither NY law (nor your state laws unless you're in the same state as the OP) really applies here.