Brandishing a stun gun during an online interview has landed a contentious transgender activist in hot water.
Mounties arrived at the Langley, B.C. apartment of Jessica Yaniv Monday, just hours after she demonstrated the weapon during a live YouTube interview with transgender commentator Blaire White.
“I don’t need to be scared in my own house, that I’m going to get f—in’ attacked,” Yaniv said, the rest of her sentence drowned out by the sparking stun gun she stuck into the camera.
“Which is illegal in Canada, just sayin’”
Hours later, RCMP knocked on her door.
Placed under arrest, Yaniv spent several hours in custody before being released.
Yaniv, 32, gained notoriety over ongoing human rights complaints against B.C. aestheticians — many newcomers to Canada — who declined to give the transgender woman a brazilian wax, due to her penis and testicles.
Yaniv claims the RCMP were “well aware” of her weapons, given to her she says by a friend concerned for her safety.
Stun guns and pepper spray are prohibited weapons under the Criminal Code, and convictions can result in up to 10 years in prison.
Yaniv claims she wasn’t formally charged, but released with a “promise to appear.”
Online video of a confrontation last month with blogger Dan Dicks featured Yaniv threatening to pepper spray him if he didn’t stop asking her questions.
Her human rights case has been overshadowed by allegations her complaints are racially motivated, and accounts reported by Anna Slatz in the Post Millennial of sexually inappropriate conversations with then-underage girls.
