Transgender Twitch streamer Keffals targeted with swatting: “I thought I was going to die”

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A transgender activist and popular Twitch streamer was arrested after police raided her London, Ontario home in what she says was a “swatting” incident.

Swatting is the act of making a false police report in order to get police to go to a person’s home. In 2017, a swatting led to the death of a Kansas man, Andrew Finch.

Clara Sorrenti, who goes by the name Keffals on social media, says that on August 5 police searched her apartment for eight hours and arrested her after someone using her deadname sent violent threats to local city hall officials. An email from her address claimed that Sorrenti had killed her mother and was planning to shoot people at city hall.

An officer told CBC News that police obtained a search warrant for Sorrenti’s residence. After 11 hours in custody, she was released without charges, but police kept her…

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