Nothing about that crowd screams 'welfare'. I guess I don't properly know how to classify someone on welfare...but I've been to Walmart before. I'd say a good fair amount of people that shop there are above the poverty level..they shop there to save money. This Walmart may be different...still doesn't mean someone is on welfare if they aren't a soccer mom. As far as the take down....I am with Justin on this one...and also with the others who say the cops acted appropriately. They neutralized a threat...but at the same time she wasn't threatening the cops....but who wants to wait around until she becomes a threat? Not me. But at the same time, she wasn't threatening anyone as far as I could tell. That being said...Cops have a hard job and you can't discern that info in a couple of seconds. I don't think the cops had to take her down that soon though...she wasn't making any violent motions (that I saw) and they could have handled it a bit differently. I know if it was one of the cops grandmas holding a knife, or someones grandma in the department, you best believe she wouldn't have been taken down like that. So I guess I agree with disarming her, but not in that fashion.