Hearthstone streamer Alliestrasza and family cuffed during mid-broadcast swatting

pcgamer.com:

Alexandra 'Alliestrasza' Macpherson is a Hearthstone streamer from the US, and one of if not the most prominent female faces around the scene. At around an hour into Macpherson's most recent stream, which began 13 hours ago at the time of writing, her home was subject to a police raid. She had been swatted: Where perpetrators phone US police forces with bogus information, hoping to incite an armed response at their victim's location.

The stream is the usual fare until around 1:03, at which point a commotion can be heard in the house and Macpherson leaves the room. Chat speculates about what's going on before, eventually, heavily armed police can be seen moving through the house: At one point, three armed officers enter the room with the streaming setup with weapons aimed and ready to fire.

The stream continues for 25 minutes, until Macpherson returns to the room to close it down, saying:

«I'm gonna turn the stream off now, the very nice officers are in the house. They're gonna take a crime report and take our IDs. Literally got swatted. I'm OK but, yeah… we were all handcuffed and everything. Everything's fine, they're very nice, I'm gonna leave and talk to you guys later, OK.»

Macpherson later expanded on the incident on social media. «Well I never thought I would get SWATTED… but alas, here we are. Everything is okay, though. Just a little shaken up with nerves,» she writes. «The officers were great and handled everything very well. They obviously had to take the threat seriously so our whole family was cuffed outside.

»After assessing the threat wasn’t real, we talked to them & gave them the context that this happens to twitch streamers sometimes. The amount of resources that were diverted here was insane, tho. WHY do