Trans-Canada Twitch streamer and political commentator Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti recently suffered a second stroke during what’s shaping up to be a hellish summer, she revealed in a post. August 18 YouTube video.
August 5, Sorrenti was the target potentially life-threatening crush attack this led to police in London, Ontario wrongfully arresting her, sticking an assault rifle in her face, and repeatedly using her dead name, which she first legally changed there. ten years old. After describing the attack in a August 9 YouTube video, Sorrenti and her fiancé moved to a hotel that should have been safe. But members of the violently transphobic hate speech forum Kiwi Farms continued their hunt, using an innocuous photo of her cat lying on the bed to compromise her whereabouts.
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“The people who harassed me spent hours cross-checking the sheets with other local hotels until they found a match,” she said in the video. “The next morning, five different pizza companies sent pizzas to my hotel room under my dead name. Obviously it’s not the pizzas that are the problem, but it’s the threat they make, they know where I live and that they are ready to act in the real world.
On August 14, the London Police Service’s Hate Crimes Division informed Sorrenti that it was investigating the pizza “stuffing” as criminal harassment. This new development, Sorrenti said, is “part of the same multi-jurisdictional investigation between London Police Service, Toronto Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service to find the person who stole my identity and used it to arm the London Police Department’s Emergency Response Team to terrify me at best and kill me at worst.
She also revealed that on July 31, Sergeant Nathan Gibson of the Toronto Police Service called her about an attempted run-over in Toronto that left an Italian named C. Sorrenti with an overturned house. .
“The [Kiwi Farms] users had reduced my address to one in London, Ontario and one in Toronto, Ontario,” Sorrenti said. “Police sent SWAT teams to addresses in these two towns, including my home, as emails in my name were directed to local politicians threatening mass violence. I have since spoken to the old Italian man who shares my last name and who lived at the address that was crashed in Toronto. He has nothing to do with it and innocent people are getting hurt trying to hurt me. This must stop.
London Police Chief Steve Williams called Sorrenti personally to apologize for the cruel and transphobic treatment she received on August 5, which Sorrenti said she would not accept “unless he and the London Police Service are willing to work with me to the best of their ability in order to catch the sissy and also the people who provided all the information the sissy needed to mobilize the response team to London Police Service emergency in an attempt to harm me.
Kotaku contacted Sorrenti for comment. She did not say in her video whether the London Police Department had provided her with any information, but on August 18, the Canadian News Network World News obtained and published the email sent to London Councilors which caused the August 5 crash. The network described the email as having many “red flags”, and it clearly does. In it, its unknown author clumsily describes his intention to go “to City Hall and shoot every cisgender person I see with a gun I acquired illegally”, uses Sorrenti’s dead name and misspells his surname as “Sorenti”.
Although Sorrenti claims his brother asked London police in March if their family could be put on a ‘no-crush list’, Deputy Chief Trish McIntyre said. World News that the Services show of force at Sorrenti’s residence was “in this case, with this threat…the appropriate response.”
London Police Service refused Kotakurequest for comment beyond emailing a link to Apology statement from Chief Williams on August 11 and writing that, “as this is currently an open and active criminal investigation, the London Police Service will no longer comment on this matter”.
But while London police strive to accomplish what Sorrenti called the “[vow] to catch the fag,” she encourages everyone who watches her video to help generate a “domestic and international discussion” about terrorism that members of the Kiwi Farms forums continue to plan.
“It’s the only way to help me, and to honor people like Julie Terryberry, Chloe Sagal and David Kirk Ginder who committed suicide because of the harassment of this heinous website,” Sorrenti said.
The description of Sorrenti’s August 18 video refers to a substantial press kit, part of which is a 28-page document by an anonymous author “inform” the public about the threats posed by Kiwi Farms.
“I can’t stress this enough,” says the anonymous writer. “Doxing is not the main problem here – it is a problem, but […] it doesn’t get to the root of what KiwiFarms is, a bullying and bullying forum.
Sorrenti’s press kit also includes screenshots of exactly how the Kiwi Farms stalkers determined the address of his apartment, how they found his hotel roomthe slur-heavy death threats they publish regularly, orchestrate messages the Toronto crash that took an unrelated C. Sorrenti in the crosshairs, and an interview Clara conducted with this other C. Sorrenti.
Sorrenti describes herself as currently ‘in hiding’ and, since the second life-threatening incident of harassment, has been forced to live in an AirBnB rotation, use a virtual private network (VPN) to protect her location and a green screen to prevent the furniture assortment that led to the second attack. It will resume regular Twitch streaming soon, using a portable streaming setup to do so safely. She is currently accepting GoFundMe Donations to help with legal fees and Patreon Subscriptions to help pay its staff.
Towards the end of the last video, Sorrenti says, “The response to what happened to me has been overwhelming. There was a huge outpouring of support and news of what happened to me went international. Despite everything I’ve been through, seeing all this support made me feel so much less alone during one of the most stressful times of my entire life.
“I just want you all to know that I never intend to back down. I’m never going to leave. I’m going to keep fighting. Like I said in an interview with World News [in the aftermath of getting swatted]if they really want to arrest me, next time they better manipulate the police into pulling the trigger, because I’m not going anywhere.
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