content: While I completely agree that our police need a lot more training than they currently have, it's one thing to observe a situation and another to actually partake in it. I don't think my first reaction to someone charging at me with a metal pole would be to turn around and hide behind my car. From a logical standpoint, the time it takes me to turn around is enough for the assailant to get one good wack in at me, judging of course from the distance the man was from the cop in the video as soon as the officer realized. I personally would've done exactly as the cop did and raise my weapon at the man and tell him to stand down. This isn't some kung fu movie where I can pull off some amazing stunt to disarm the assailant. This is real life, where over the span of 3 seconds things got violent real quick and suddenly some guy is charging at me with a weapon. Also not all cops carry tasers.