Trans activist swatted in Canada. Police say she is still a suspect

Overheal

Irregular case of a reportedly noteworthy trans activist from Canada who was recently swatted by Canadian police.

https://kotaku.com/trans-twitch-youtube-livestream-clara-keffals-sorrenti-1849396487

according to the report the police received threats by email from someone claiming to be her, deadnaming herself etc. in the emails that she was going to go on a cisgender killing spree and had murdered her own mother. None of which turned out to be true.

She’s been released without incident since the swatting and detainment but the local police say she’s still a suspect. They aren’t sure if she cooked this up herself for publicity yet is my read of it

Trends of swatting people over petty disputes, transphobia etc are around but so are political false flags especially in small time cases (eg. Ashley Todd in 2008 carved a mirrored “B” into her own forehead and blamed it on Obama activists and was sentenced to first offense probation). Don’t know which this is yet.

xxxxxxl

Guess we wait for the investigation to complete before jumping either way. Swatting is a stupid thing to do. I mean did not some yt die ?

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457005#Comment_119457005

more than a few people have died from swatting, emphasizing the urgency to investigate this.

mikeecho

WTF is swatting?

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457025#Comment_119457025

Calling the emergency services to elicit a huge armed response to an address. As in send the swat to x address think that's how it started.

Atlantic Dawn

One of those news reports that you have to Google every 2nd sentence because it's like it's in a language from another world and makes the Ann & Barry primary school book hate speech material.

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457028#Comment_119457028

I hardly ever agree with the OP but that aside no offence meant OP. In the USA for example where it started. It's like calling in a lie about your next door neighbour is holding the wife hostage and watch the chaos unfold. AT least if you sent angry threat no one could die. It's beyond stupid.

Annasopra

Never heard of swatting

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457172#Comment_119457172

it's been explained if you read the few posts in the thread.

kirk.

Had to check in here to see what swatting is

Thought it was a reference to sexual activity or something

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457026#Comment_119457026

Sounds like a regurgitated Americanism

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457198#Comment_119457198

More like gibberish

I doubt that term is in widespread use

xxxxxxl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457204#Comment_119457204

Not really Ireland does not have a swat team we have the ARU.

Jequ0n

„Apparently, someone impersonating her emailed every city counselor in London, Ontario, stating she killed her mom, was in possession of an illegal firearm, and planned to “go to city hall and shoot every cisgender person” there.

Hardly surprising that the police burst into the place when they received a claim like this. I am sure they are as annoyed as Keffals and the other 2 streamers this seems to have happened to. Sounds like trolling at the next level but not necessarily an anti trans agenda?

is_that_so

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457204#Comment_119457204

It's slang but in fairly common usage. As pointed out above it's often triggered over very petty grievances and can be lethal. Watch enough US TV cop shows and you'll nod your head!

Patrick2010

Now that swatting has been explained can I ask what deadnaming is?

What’s the next thread going to be. A trans person takes a shite

is_that_so

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457246#Comment_119457246

It's using their old name. Ellen Page, for example is now Elliott Page , so continuing to use Ellen is deadnaming.

Tom Mann Centuria

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457257#Comment_119457257

Well that would definitely turn out to be much less controversial than a trans person takes a piss.

rogber

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457172#Comment_119457172

Sounds like some deviant sexual practice. Now I know better.

What's the Irish equivalent? "guarding?"

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457257#Comment_119457257

Swatting has actively gotten people killed in the past so it's very much so news worthy. And whoever made the threats was well aware that is a real risk.

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457223#Comment_119457223

My head would need to be nodded already to watch any of that shlte

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457314#Comment_119457314

Hmm I see what this about now

I was getting it mixed up with swotting

kirk.

What's the crack with the 'pills '

Is it benzos or E or is there any fentanyl in them

I heard of the the heroin being laced with fentanyl but that's all I know bout it

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457204#Comment_119457204

It is in widespread use

Eg

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/serial-swatter-sentenced-sixty-months-federal-custody-connection-death-tennessee-man

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119457198#Comment_119457198

It’s called eruing here

Brucie Bonus

I don't think giving out about wokeisms or trans folk is the takeaway from some scummer nearly getting a person killed because she has a podcast he/she doesn't like.

Brucie Bonus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119459465#Comment_119459465

The police aren't lying about it happening and not being her who started it. No charges.

AllForIt

This story serves as a important reminder to always keep a backup of your important files in the cloud and if you use two factor authentication know how to get back into your online accounts in the event you loose access to your smart devices.

Brucie Bonus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119459698#Comment_119459698

She wasn't hacked. She was reported to police and they raided.

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119459992#Comment_119459992

Apparently, someone impersonating her emailed every city counselor in London, Ontario, stating she killed her mom, was in possession of an illegal firearm, and planned to “go to city hall and shoot every cisgender person” there. There were just two glaring problems: The email was riddled with grammatical errors and had Keffals’ deadname. You’d think Keffals wouldn’t deadname herself, but that didn’t matter to the cops. So, when Keffals was arrested by Ontario police, they booked her in the station under her deadname, which was legally changed more than a decade ago. The cops even misgendered Keffals when talking to her mom, referring to her as Ms. Sorrenti’s “son,” despite Keffals running for political office twice in Canada under her real, legal name: Clara Sorrenti.

Yeah I think you could be misled into thinking this reads as her email being hacked, but no hack is reported. Though it didn't explicitly say it wasn't her email, hence the confusion.

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119459698#Comment_119459698

What? Someone else obviously created a fake email address

francois

Swatting has been around for years, I'm surprised people have not heard about it.

1st death was 2017, due to the whole gamergate bull, which kicked off the whole incel thing

astrofool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119460415#Comment_119460415

A lot of systems don't verify the email source, so anyone can be anyone (the likes of gmail or outlook would flag this, tech companies wanted to put in verification years ago, but ISP's rejected it). Pretty much anything digital can be spoofed in some way, just like anything analogue :)

John Doe1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058258342/trans-activist-swatted-in-canada-police-say-she-is-still-a-suspect

Jussie Smollett

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119461599#Comment_119461599

That too. I also had in mind this when I wrote the OP but was too tired to find and link it in to what I was saying

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/local/hate-crime-hoax-indiana-church/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/he-terrorized-his-community-with-a-hate-crime-hoax-now-the-washington-post-is-rehabbing-him