Trans Twitch Streamer Keffals Says Police Terrorized Her After SWATing
An apparent incident with a SWAT team led to the arrest of a transgender Canadian Twitch streamer Keffals last week in London, Ontario.
Now she is calling attention to her mistreatment while in police custody for a crime she did not commit."On August 5th, I was woken up with an assault rifle pointed at me and arrested for a crime I didn't commit," Clara Sorrenti, or Keffals, tweeted. "I need your help." An email from someone pretending to be Sorrenti was sent to every City Council member in London, claiming she had an illegal gun and was going to attack her family and "go to city hall and shoot every cisgender person" she saw, the content creator explained.
Sorrenti posted a video to her YouTube channel Tuesday with the caption "My life is in danger. I need your help." In the video, she explained that because of the email, police responded by bringing the SWAT team to her property.
Police seized her computers and harassed her in a transphobic manner, she said. The email "was an obvious attempt to make the police humiliate me," she said.When she was arrested, the police referred to her by her deadname and she was even booked her under her deadname, Sorrenti says.
