Twitch streamer says police prejudice contributed to terrifying swatting incident: 'They victimized me for being the victim of a hate crime.'
On August 5, streamer and activist Clara"Keffals" Sorrenti awoke with a gun in her face. Her home was being raided by police in response to a threatening email that she didn't send. Someone had swatted her.
Sorrenti's family had previously contacted the London Police Service about being put on a"no-swatting" list, but were treated like they were"wearing tinfoil hats," she says. Despite that attempt to warn the authorities about the possibility of a swatting attempt, the email was taken seriously and police arrived at her home fully armed, with a warrant to search for firearms, phones, and computers.
On August 5th, I was woken up with an assault rifle pointed at me and arrested for a crime I didn't commit. I need your help. Please share this video widelyhttps://t.co/URNsfyrSQcIn her account of her arrest, Sorrenti states that her treatment by London police was persistently transphobic. The email which triggered the raid referred to Sorrenti both by her real name and her dead name—the name she was assigned at birth—but police referred to her and booked her solely by the latter.
The reason that there aren't a lot of very high-profile trans content creators is because they get doxed, swatted, and harassed off the internet.Sorrenti was eventually released without charge, but says she remains a suspect in the police investigation. The London Police Service declined to comment further on the incident.
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