The Cameron Cloward Case Out Of Utah Is A Nice Snapshot Of How Confusing Modern Police Work Is

Autism, knives, familial neglect, and more.

Ted Bauer
4 min readApr 19, 2024

Cameron Cloward was 36 years old. He lived in Salt Lake City. Apparently, per his family, he was autistic. He also, at the time of the incident that ended his life, was apparently homeless.

Here is the raw footage on the situation:

So therein, he apparently stabs a clerk at a Chevron, who calls the cops. Initially I saw this story reported as him having “a machete,” but apparently he just had a pocket knife. (That’s a big difference.)

He’s wandering around the edges of the Chevron when cops arrive, and there’s a lot of screaming and “put the fucking knife down!” and “we’ll fucking shoot you!” Etc, etc.

Finally, Cameron advances a little bit on one of the cops, and he gets shot. He is now deceased.

Well, his brother Morgan got an audience with the Chief of Police in SLC, and that’s within this report:

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Ted Bauer

Mostly write about work, leadership, friendship, masculinity, male infertility, and some other stuff along the way. It's a pleasure to be here.