Streamer 'Keffals' Held in Transphobic 'Swatting,' Alleges Police Bias – Newsweek

Canadian transgender Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti, aka “Keffals” was arrested in a transphobic “swatting” incident last week. Members of a SWAT team are pictured in Des Moines, Washington, on February 16, 2018. David Ryder/Getty Popular Twitch streamer “Keffals” has been arrested and allegedly harassed by police after being targeted by transphobic trolls.Keffals, whose real name is Clara Sorrenti, said she was the victim of “swatting”—the practice of intentionally encouraging law enforcement to harshly respond to a person by filing false reports about them—when she was arrested by police in London, Ontario, on the morning of August 5. The arrested happened after London City Hall was sent multiple fake emails alleging that she had killed her own mother, was in possession of an illegal gun and was planning to travel to City Hall to “shoot every cisgender person.”Police took the fake messages seriously despite a series of grammatical errors and other hints that they could be the work of online trolls—including information about her “deadname,” a term that transgender people sometimes use to describe their legal names before transitioning.Sorrenti said that she was arrested after being woken up by London Police Services officers pointing an assault rifle in her face. She…
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