A violent knife-wielding woman was tasered and “inadvertently” run over twice by a Toronto police SUV during her arrest next to a Tim Hortons drive-thru on Saturday.

The dramatic incident, which was captured in a pair of videos circulating widely across social media platforms, occurred mid-afternoon near Jane Park Plaza shopping centre in the city’s west end, where officers responded to reports of a woman with two large knives.

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The woman was “actively damaging” vehicles, according to a Toronto Police Service statement sent to National Post, and had slashed the tires of a police cruiser that had arrived on the scene.

In a video shot by Peter Korchinski and shared to YouTube by MadLabs, the armed woman is seen walking through a busy parking lot as police and civilian

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