Officer and tasered suspect 'inadvertently' run over by Toronto police cruiser during chaotic arrest
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.
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 civilians manoeuvre around her. After she stabs the tires of one cruiser, the officer inside exits and eventually fires his taser as she walks away.
The knives quickly drop from her hands and she falls to the ground as the firing officer and two others immediately rush to subdue her, as seen in another shorter video from a different angle posted by videographer Matt Dagley and others.
A fourth officer, meanwhile, exits his SUV to assist without first putting the vehicle in park, causing it to roll forward onto the suspect and the officer who fired.
Toronto Police officer forgets to put vehicle in park. pic.twitter.com/hmKZSmQl6U
— Matt Dagley (@mattdagley) November 4, 2025
The officers appear to push back against the vehicle as their grounded comrade tries to extricate himself to assist. The officer who got out to help then hops back in the cruiser to reverse, but instead hits the gas to again run over the woman, who is heard crying out throughout the ordeal.
“During this response, the officer’s vehicle inadvertently rolled forward into both the suspect and one of the arresting officers,” TPS explained in its statement.
“Back up,” the firing officer yells as he makes it to his knees, with the driving officer quickly complying to get the vehicle off the woman.
Two of the officers struggle to get her under control as the officer who fired the taser limps away to lean on a parked vehicle.
In the longer video, she is seen standing and being restrained by more officers who’ve arrived on scene.
Although paramedics cleared both of significant injuries resulting from the “vehicle contact,” the woman was sent to hospital for further assessment, as is standard when someone has been tasered.
“We are actively reviewing the circumstances and are grateful there were no serious injuries during this dynamic incident,” TPS wrote.
It also won’t notify the Special Investigations Unit because the injuries weren’t severe.
“A serious injury — defined as one likely to interfere with the person’s health or comfort and is not transient or trifling in nature — would trigger the SIU’s mandate to investigate,” they explained.
In a statement from vice president Brian Callanan on X, the Toronto Police Association said it was aware of the video and thankful its officers “were not seriously injured.”
Statement From TPA VP Brian Callanan We’re aware of the video shared online showing an incident involving our members from this weekend. Our members were responding to calls for a woman, armed with knives, causing damage to nearby vehicles. After deploying a taser, a struggle…
— Toronto Police Association (@TPAca) November 3, 2025
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