A Increase article font size A + Clara Sorrenti’s fear came to life on Saturday morning as armed police knocked on her door, asking her to come out as they had a search warrant for her home. Sorrenti, a transgender woman and popular online streamer on Twitch, going by the name Keffals, had been doxxed — with harassers sending false death threats with her name, address to London, Ont. city councillors, leading to Sorrenti being arrested at gunpoint. “When I went into the hallway and then saw that assault rifle, I screamed and I thought I was going to die,” Sorrenti told Global News in a sit-down interview. Swatting is a tactic of calling the police to a live streamer’s home, as armed police show up on their doorstep in an attempt to intimidate them. Doxxing is publishing private information, like an address or phone number in public. Sorrenti was arrested on the morning of Aug. 5th, woken up by police yelling at her from her doorway. When she went to open the door she saw one London Police Service (LPS) officer crouched down wearing a riot shield and holding an assault rifle directly pointed at her, she alleged. Then, she was pulled out into the hallway by multiple officers and arrested, still puzzled as to why she was being handcuffed. London Police Service confirmed the arrest to Global News. (…) Dating back to March 27th, Sorrenti and her family were targeted by hate online and were doxxed. At that time, she said she and her brother allegedly told LPS that they were wanted to be put on a “no swatting list” foreshadowing what would eventually happen, but were told that no such list existed. Global News contacted LPS to ask about a potential swatting list and were “as this is an active investigation, we are unable to provide any further details.” Alleged transphobia of London Police Service With a fraught history of interactions with transgender people and police and lack of distrust of authorities, Sorrenti noted that she felt some of the actions of LPS officers were transphobic. She said that she was dead-named multiple times, including in the police report and on her evidence bags, which Global News confirmed. A dead name is the “birth name of a transgender person who has changed their name as part of their gender transition” and using one is considered harmful.
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siehe auch: Twitch Streamer Keffals Arrested After Transphobic SWATing. Clara Sorrenti, also known as Keffals, was arrested on August 5th in what she says was a targetted attack on her. Streamer Clara Sorrenti, also known as Keffals, was arrested on August 5th after a fraudulent email was sent to every city councilor in London, Ontario saying that she intended to harm her family and members of the London Parliament. The raid resulted in her computers being seized by police, and happened amidst a wave of transphobic harassment against the streamer, which she says was further perpetrated by the police themselves. Clara is an outspoken trans streamer who has gained tens of thousands of followers on Twitch for aggressively debunking anti-trans talking points, as well as for her ability to “ratio” notable anti-trans activists on Twitter. A “ratio” on Twitter is when a reply to a tweet gets more likes than the tweet itself. Most famously, Clara ratioed former children’s book author and current transphobe J.K. Rowling.