A knife-wielding woman has been arrested by police after she was filmed waiving a large knife at passers-by.

In footage that was circulated around Stamford Hill’s Chasidic community on Wednesday evening, the woman could be seen casually walking down Cadoxton Avenue, N15, carrying a large knife, before waiving it aggressively and arguing with people in a car that was passing by.

The woman, who was in her 70s, was later filmed being ordered to comply with police demands that she lay on the ground.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed that they were called at 7:53pm on Wednesday to reports of a woman with a knife. She was “arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. She has been taken into custody.”

The were no reported injuries.