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-Lurid Crime Tales-
California deputy fatally shoots knife-wielding mom in front of her kids
2021-02-19
[NYP] A California deputy fatally shot a woman in front of her two young children as she charged at another cop with a knife, graphic video shows.

The footage, released Wednesday by the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office, shows 33-year-old Ariella Crawford walking along a road in Alta Sierra with her two young children when Deputy Caleb Toderean approaches her.

A nearby resident had called 911 on Feb. 4 to report a woman walking in the middle of the road amid "significant traffic," sheriff’s officials said.

The video shows Crawford becoming immediately upset as the deputies approach, prompting her to pull out a large knife.

"For reasons yet unknown, Ms. Crawford was very upset with the presence of our deputies despite one of them saying she was not in any trouble," Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said.

Toderean tells Crawford she is "not in trouble or anything like that" and denies that he is going to touch the woman’s babies, the clip shows.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  A nearby resident had called 911 on Feb. 4 to report a woman walking in the middle of the road amid "significant traffic," sheriff’s officials said.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-02-19 23:12  

#15  Clearly California street schooling is working.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-02-19 16:18  

#14  It's also surprising they didn't try baton strikes on her weapon arm. She was a housewife, not a gang member who's lived in a gym for a few years while in prison.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2021-02-19 14:15  

#13  The officer with the Taser waited way too long to use it. It was obvious that she was disturbed and both of these Bozo's allowed the situation to get out of hand.

Then your issue is with the BLM training, not the cops.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-02-19 13:54  

#12  Elmenter Ulerenter5192, no. She screwed the pooch by going after one of the cops with a knife.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2021-02-19 12:43  

#11  We weren't in that room and videos don't always convey the minor body language or situational tensions in such encounters.

I don't know what video you watched, but the one I saw clearly showed her to be agitated and working herself up.

Saved the lives of the kids. Dragging them out into traffic to get run over...

She was walking on the side of the road, there was no sidewalk that I could see. It was a neighborhood side street and traffic was almost non existent. You have no way of knowing whether she intended to hurt those kids. It certainly did not seem that way to me. Who knows what sort of emotional trauma she was trying to deal with by going for a walk. These cops screwed the pooch as far as I am concerned.

Posted by: Elmenter Ulerenter5192   2021-02-19 12:17  

#10  Saved the lives of the kids. Dragging them out into traffic to get run over by her shows she had plans to die and take them out with her somehow that very day.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-02-19 11:36  

#9  The perps still will sue the LEOs for taser deployment EU5192 ("She turned me into a Newt!"), and the officers are taught to restrain themselves before using them.

We weren't in that room and videos don't always convey the minor body language or situational tensions in such encounters.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2021-02-19 11:31  

#8  Both of these cops need to be suspended without pay. The officer with the Taser waited way too long to use it. It was obvious that she was disturbed and both of these Bozo's allowed the situation to get out of hand. She was clearly working herself up for an attack.

If she had been tased sooner there might not have been as much adrenaline and the taser might have been effective.
Posted by: Elmenter Ulerenter5192   2021-02-19 10:07  

#7  Alan Snackbar mentioned.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756   2021-02-19 09:00  

#6  Don't want to be shot in front of your kids, don't attack police in front of your kids.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-02-19 08:33  

#5  They deployed a taser, first
Posted by: Frank G   2021-02-19 07:51  

#4  p.s. New martyr to replace George Floyd?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-19 07:18  

#3  I suspect drug free, clear thinking and common sense played no role.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-02-19 07:13  

#2  Had a guess. Looked at video. Bingo.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-19 07:10  

#1  

Sad it happen, as she was likely have a Mental Emotional episode. Having small kids in the middle of the road with traffic could only have resulted in massive trauma, if not death to the kids and herself.

With all that said....
Knives kill whether in front kids or not.

I have to ask "No taser?" available between Deputy Caleb Toderean and Deputy Matthew Harrison ?


Either way Ariella Crawford with a large knife in the middle of the road attacking LEO is justification enough.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-02-19 06:18  

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