 Did you say he had a baton on him like a billy club? It would probably be the ASP baton, A-S-P, which is the smaller one that expands. Most don't carry the regular batons any longer. The Espentoon, which you might see some Baltimore police officers carrying, but the side handle baton became synonymous with the Rodney King beating back in the 90s, and many police departments actually went away with it.